School Work
Performance at Artspace, March 16, 2022
Photo credit: Peter McElhinney
School Work
Adam Hopkins performs at Artspace, March 16, 2022
Photo credit: Peter McElhinney
School Work Performance
Photo credit: Peter McElhinney
Adam Hopkins
Performance at the Firehouse Theatre
Photo credit: Peter McElhinney
Claudia Quintet Performance
Adam Hopkins
Photo credit: Peter Gannushkin
Adam Hopkins is a bassist and composer born and raised in Baltimore MD, relocated to Brooklyn NY in 2011, and moved to Richmond in early 2019. 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. His debut album CRICKETS has received international acclaim from a variety of sources, most notably ranking as the #2 Debut Album in the 2018 NPR Jazz Critics Poll. Adam was also named the #2 Newcomer Musician for 2018 in the International Critics Poll organized by El Intruso.
As a sideman he's been a part of performances led by Henry Threadgill as well as a European tour with John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet. He performs regularly with Webber/Morris Big Band, Anna Webber’s Rectangles, Scott Clark's Dawn & Dusk, Christopher Hoffman Trio, Kate Gentile Mannequins, Tomeka Reid’s Stringtet, Dustin Carlson’s Air Ceremony, Ideal Bread, Dave Ballou, and Laila & Smitty. Adam 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 and additional studies with Drew Gress and Gary Thomas.
In August of 2018 Adam launched Out Of Your Head Records, an artist-run Brooklyn-based (now based in Richmond VA) record label dedicated to creative music and original visual art in limited runs. He enlisted the help of two of his closest collaborators, TJ Huff and Nick Prevas, to shape the visual image of the label. On October 19, 2018 Adam released his debut album CRICKETS as the first release on OOYH Records. In addition to being a performer he has extensive experience as a curator. In 2009 he co-founded an improvised music collective called the Out of Your Head Collective, which maintained weekly performances in Baltimore for 5+ years at The Windup Space. Upon moving to New York in 2011 he started a Brooklyn-based chapter which involved over 100 of the city's greatest improvisers. Additionally he was a long-term co-curator for two Brooklyn-based weekly music series, A.E. Randolph Presents and 65Fen.
