File 18 - Correspondence with Mark Hopkins, conductor

0.5 cm of textual records

File consists of correspondence with Mark Hopkins, conductor and professor at Acadia University School of Music. Hopkins leads the Wind Ensemble, and taught courses on undergraduate and graduate conducting, instrumental music education, sound painting, and chamber music. He conducted performances of the following works by Derek Healey:

• One Midsummer's morning : an English folk-set, op. 82
  • Performed by musicians of Nova Scotia at a concert at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia (May 2, 2009)
  • Second movement, "On the banks of the sweet primroses," performed by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at the Festival Theatre, Acadia University, Nova Scotia (October 21, 2012) and during the keynote performance for the Nova Scotia Music Educators Association at Brookfield Elementary School in Nova Scotia (October 26, 2012)
  • Performed by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (March 19, 2017)
• Solemn music for wind ensemble, op. 93
  • Premiered by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble with the Nova Scotia Youth Wind Ensemble in a concert at Lockview High School, Fall River, Nova Scotia (February 7, 2010)
  • Performed by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at Middleton High School in Nova Scotia (February 14, 2010)
  • American premiere by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at the College Band Directors National Association Eastern Division Conference in Alter Theatre, West Chester University, Pennsylvania (March 13, 2010)
  • Performed by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at the Festival Theatre, Acadia University, Nova Scotia (March 21, 2010)
• NOVA : 12 variations on a Scotian theme, op. 159
  • Premiered by the Acadia University Wind Ensemble at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia (April 9, 2022).

Hopkins also published an interview with Derek Healey in Canadian Winds, vol. 7, no. 2 (Spring 2009); included Solemn Music on a list of works performed during the Wind Conducting Symposium 2010 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music with Gillian Mackay and Jeffrey Reynolds and guest clinician Mark Hopkins (July 5-8, 2010); discussed One Midsummer's Morning and Solemn Music in a lecture "Northern Winds : the Canadian Wind Band Project" given at the Concert Band Directors' National Association (CBDNA) national conference at the University of N. Carolina, Greensboro (March 22, 2013); and published the article "Study Guide for Derek Healey's Solemn Music : A Tribute to Station Number 3, Brooklyn" in Canadian Winds (Spring 2015), co-authored with Valerie Graham.

Also see Series C "Rough notes and performance records" for programs and other papers relating to these compositions. See Series G "Biographical materials" for a copy of Hopkins interview with Healey.