Patrick Hopkins is an active soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player having performed nationally and internationally in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, and Suntory Hall.  He made his Lincoln Center debut in 2008 as soloist with the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and has appeared three times as soloist with the Fairbanks Symphony.  In July 2015, he was soloist/principal cellist with the National Repertory Orchestra and recently appeared as soloist with the New Amsterdam Orchestra of New York.  In 2011, Mr. Hopkins was the Grand Prize winner of the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition and is also a Yamaha Young Performing Artist.  He joined the faculty of South Texas College in the fall of 2018.  Mr. Hopkins was a member of the Wichita (Kansas) Symphony Orchestra and has also served as a lecturer at Rutgers University. 

Mr. Hopkins has worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Bernard Haitink, Robert Spano, and Yannick Nezet-Seguin.  He has studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Juilliard, and Orion Quartets and has performed with members of the Harlem and Orion Quartets.  Mr. Hopkins has performed in master classes with Zuill Bailey, Colin Carr, Timothy Eddy, and Franz Helmerson.    

Mr. Hopkins is a graduate of Juilliard’s Pre-College Division and received his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Bonnie Hampton and Richard Aaron.  Mr. Hopkins received his Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in the Orchestral Performance program as a full scholarship student of Alan Stepansky.  Other teachers with whom he has worked extensively include Hans Jørgen-Jensen, Melissa Kraut, and Minna Rose Chung.  Mr. Hopkins has received summer fellowships from the National Repertory Orchestra, Spoleto Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West.  Mr. Hopkins is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rutgers University as a full scholarship student of Jonathan Spitz.