Michael Hopkins

Avalanche est une composition originale expressive et énergique pour orchestre débutant qui constitue également une merveilleuse pièce pédagogique pour la distribution de l'archet, les levées, les rep...

Your students will love playing this fast and energetic new work! Set in E minor, the piece is great for working on dynamic contrasts, staccato, and legato bowing. All parts are playable in first posi...

With a bright and cheerful opening and a lyrical middle section, this piece celebrates the early years of the United States and the sacrifices that secured our freedom. Composed by Michael Hopkins, th...

Secret World' is a high-energy, rhythmic work in E minor---with a mysterious theme---featuring a syncopated motive that will delight players. Chromatic harmonies give students opportunities to develop...

Truly a beautiful and majestic work! This is a great piece for teaching slurs, bow distribution, bowing variation, using 4th finger on violin and viola, hemiola, dynamic contrasts, ritardando, and leg...

Composed to help students tune octave intervals with open strings and develop bowing skill with string crossings, but your students will just plain enjoy playing this fast and lively new work. Parts a...

Crepuscule is the period of partial darkness at the beginning or end of the day - in other words, twilight. The energy of the sun touches the quiet of the night. This highly energetic work in E minor...

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This energetic new work is a musical depiction of the Seacoast Century, a 100 mile bike race along the New England coast. A programmatic work, descriptors are included for each part of the piece to en...

Mysterious Forces, de Michael Hopkins, est une pièce rapide et rythmiquement énergique en mi mineur pour orchestre intermédiaire. Toutes les sections de l'orchestre sont représentées sur le matériel m...

This energetic and spooky scherzo is a great piece for teaching the key of G minor to a young orchestra. It features a melody based on a scale in broken thirds with short fast bow strokes. All the ins...

This beautiful and lyrical work will give your students an opportunity to develop long legato bows. The piece features rich, lush, romantic harmonies and is a great piece for working on expression, ba...

This fast and energetic overture features driving propulsive rhythms and a syncopated melody. Fun and challenging parts for all sections in the orchestra makes this piece a great concert opener. (3:00...

Written to honor the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting that shattered the town but not their spirit, this piece will provide the needed mood for any commemorative time or serve as an expr...

This great cross-curricular piece will engage the imagination as students picture being face to face with these peaceful, majestic, and mysterious, yet friendly, social, and intelligent marine mammals...

Explore the hidden dimensions of spacetime and string theory with multiple meters! Great for a cross-curricular experience with the science class. There is a string theory in physics named M-Theory th...

Incredible Voyage, de Michael Hopkins, est une pièce vivante et énergique pour orchestre intermédiaire qui dépeint un voyage épique à travers la galaxie pour visiter de nouveaux mondes. Toutes les par...