Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins is Professor of Violin, Viola, and Chamber Music at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). She is an outstanding violinist who has concertized in major forums in the United States and Europe. She is a veteran of both the Tanglewood festival and the "Yale in Norfolk" summer music programs, and her many concert credits include performances in both Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York. In addition to her activities as soloist and chamber musician, she has served as assistant concertmaster for the Boston Civic Symphony, and as concertmaster for other regional orchestras along the east coast.

Since joining the faculty of UAF, Butler-Hopkins has served as concertmaster and soloist with the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and as a member of the Alaska Trio, the Alaska Chamber Ensemble, and the Alaska Chamber Players. She has appeared as violin and viola soloist with the Fairbanks Youth Orchestra. She has performed as concertmaster for orchestras with the Western Opera Theater, the Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre, and the Fairbanks Choral Arts Orchestra. She has participated in convention performances across the country, the latest being with the Alaska Trio at the MENC Northwest Division Conference in Spokane, Washington. Her prize-winning students have distinguished themselves at such festivals as Tanglewood, Meadowmount, Musicorda, Bowdoin, Encore, and Indiana Summer String Academy, and have won a variety of awards including the Northwest Division of the MTNA Collegiate Auditions. Butler-Hopkins has been on the faculty of the UAF Summer Fine Arts Camp, is the master teacher at the Juneau Jazz and Classics String Workshop, is the chamber music coordinator at the Fairbanks Suzuki Institute, and the String Symposium, sponsored by the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. She has also coached chamber music at the Central Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute. Butler-Hopkins has been a contributor to Strings magazine, was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, was listed in the 1994 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.