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Sarah Hopkins

Country: Australia

Sarah Hopkins is an Australian composer and performer whose music centres on cello, harmonic overtone singing, handbells and choir. She is best known for the Harmonic Whirlies, instruments of her own invention, and for choral works such as Past Life Melodies. She has performed her music abroad as well as in Australia. Hopkins studied with Richard David Hames. Her piece Cello Chi appeared in the anthology Soundings No. 16. With Alan Lamb she made Sky Song, music from which was used on Australia's bid CD for the 2000 Olympics.

Soundings XVI (book)
16th volume of the Soundings collection of scores and texts edited by Peter Garland published in 1990 and including works by John Zorn, Sarah Hopkins, Lois V Vierk, Mary Jane Leach, Mamoru Fujieda, Charles Amirkhanian, Gordon Mumma, Gordon Monahan, John Bergamo and Garland himself.