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4 unusual facts about Tim Hopkins


Tim Hopkins

Other credits include You Am I, Kate Ceberano, Ed Kuepper, Doug Williams, Midnight Oil, Jackie Orszaczky, and many others, not to mention a brief jam with Sting.

Whilst there, he played with Jim Black and Seamus Blake and wrote/arranged/performed with an ensemble called Phydia featuring a string quartet with a standard jazz quartet line up.

In 1999, on an Australia Arts Council grant, he studied with saxophonist George Garzone in New York City.

He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and came to the attention of Australian jazz musicians Vince Jones, Paul Grabowsky, Mike Nock, James Morrison, Don Burrows, top kiwi musicians Kim Patterson, Kevin Field, Frank Gibson Jnr, Nathan Haines, Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, King Kapisi and Gray Bartlett.



see also

The Aints

With Artie Sledge (bass), Mark Dawson (drums) and Tim Hopkins (sax), the Aints released two albums of original songs: Ascension in November 1991 and Autocannibalism in 1992, both on Hot Records.