Bassist, composer, educator, and semi-professional parallel parker from Baltimore, MD–the Land of Pleasant Living. Recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY but Bmore will always be home. Check back frequently for gig updates, record info, video and sound clips.
Extended Bio:
Adam Hopkins is a bassist and composer born and raised in Baltimore, MD and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He has extensive experience performing jazz and improvised music and has played with professional orchestras in Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the DC metro area. He has been fortunate to perform with a number of influential artists throughout his career including George Garzone, Uri Caine, Dave Ballou, and Taylor Ho Bynum. He attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in 2010 where he shared the stage with Mary Halvorson, Darcy James Argue, Dave Douglas, Jeff Parker, and a group of inspiring peers from around the world. He has been on faculty at Loyola University for the past six years as a professor of double and electric bass, music theory, and ear training. Currently he is on faculty at the Lagond Music School in Westchester, NY and also teaches privately in his home studio. He holds a graduate performance diploma from Peabody Conservatory in Jazz Studies, a master’s degree from Michigan State University in Orchestral Bass Performance, and a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University in Music Industry.
Adam currently performs in a number of groups in the New York, Baltimore, and DC areas both as a leader and sideman. As a composer his primary project is the Baltimore-based group Quartet Offensive, who released their debut album “Carnivore” in Spring 2009 to international acclaim. In February 2009 Adam co-founded Out of Your Head, a collective of improvising musicians in Baltimore devoted to broadening the local creative music scene. In February 2012 he began a second chapter of OOYH in Brooklyn, NY. He curates performances for the Brooklyn chapter every first and third Sunday at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom in South Slope. Adam was awarded an Individual Artist Grant for music composition in 2011 and 2009 and music performance in 2010 from the Maryland State Arts Council. He won a Baker Artist Baltimore’s Choice Prize in 2009, which was the inaugural year of the award. Adam is currently involved with, either as a composer or bassist, Turn Around Norman, Danny Gouker’s Signal Problems, Party Pack!, and a new Baltimore-based dectet called Lubbock which he co-founded with Dave Ballou. Turn Around Norman released their debut album “We Turn Around” in July 2011, which features a number of his compositions. He has studied double bass with many great performers and teachers of the instrument, including Michael Formanek, Jeffrey Weisner, Jack Budrow, Rodney Whitaker, and Sam Cross.
