Sabato 13 Novembre, ore 17:00 - TIMOTHY HOPKINS, cello PREMIO AMICI DELLA MUSICA DI VERONA 2021 Competizione internazionale riservata a solisti e gruppi di camera, dal 30 Ottobre al 18 Dicembre 2021 (www.premioamv.com). Fasi finali in forma di concerto. Ingresso gratuito su prenotazione. Sabato 13 Novembre, ore 17:00 Sala Montanari della Società Letteraria di Verona TIMOTHY HOPKINS, cello Johann S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 C Major - Prélude - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Bourrée 1and 2 - Gigue Johann S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 D Major - Prélude - Sarabande Gaspar Cassadó: Suite for Cello Solo 1. Preludio - fantasia. Andante 2. Sardana (danza). Allegro giusto 3. Intermezzo e Danza Finale. Lento ma non troppo - Allegro marcato Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24 (arr. Silva, Hopkins) TIMOTHY HOPKINS The German/American cellist Timothy Hopkins was born in 1995 into a family of musicians. Soloistic and chamber musical performances so far brought him to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, the Czech republic, Switzerland, and the USA. As a soloist he performed several times accompanied by the Göttinger Symphonieorchester, the MDR- Sinfonieorchester as well as the Castello Symphony Orchestra (Spain), and he is a prize winner in both national and international competitions. As a very passionate chamber musician he was invited twice to perform at the HARMOS chamber music festival in Portugal, once with the Lipsia String Quartet and again with the Max-Klinger-Piano Trio, with the latter also at the Rice University in Houston/Texas. Furthermore, he forms the Cello Duo Grancelli together with his colleague Moritz Klauk. He began his musical studies while he was still going to school as a pre-student in Münster and afterwards in Leipzig. After his high school graduation, he completed his bachelor's degree with honors at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig, studying with Prof. Peter Bruns. At the moment, he is working on his master's program supervised by Prof. Troels Svane at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He received additional insights through working with artists such as Steven Isserlis, Wen-Sinn Yang, Sergio Azzolini, Antoine Tamestit, Wolfgang Boettcher, Viviane Hagner, Norman Fischer, Antje Weithaas, Eberhardt Feltz, Heime Müller, and the members of the Quarteto Casals. During the pandemic he recorded his first CD “Salute to the Violin”, in which he performs some of his own arrangements of violin pieces for the cello and which will be released officially in 2022. Timothy Hopkins is a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin „Live Music Now“ Leipzig e. V. He was also a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Winning the competition of the SINFONIMA - Foundation entitled him to own a cello by Nicolas Vuillaume from 1860 for a period of two years. Currently, he plays on a French cello from the late 19th century of an unknown maker.