Jon Hopkins

Jon Hopkins is a classically trained composer, electronic artist and producer whose solo and collaborative works, have received widespread acclaim as well as Grammy and Mercury Prize nominations. Recently cited by The New Yorker as “One of the most celebrated electronic musicians of his generation”, Hopkins has forged a reputation for music that marries the dance floor to the devotional, and for live performances that are visceral, generous and charged with a rapt, sensuous beauty. His output flows from rugged techno to transcendent choral music, from solo acoustic piano to psychedelic ambient.

Initially gaining exposure through his work with Brian Eno, Coldplay and King Creosote in the mid-2000s, he gradually found his voice as a solo artist, blending intricately crafted beats with serene, meditative textures. Immunity (2013) and Singularity (2018), two intense, ambitious sets of spiritually-minded techno and ambient tracks, were among the decade’s most lauded electronic albums.

Hopkins has remixed artists as diverse as Flume, David Lynch, Moderat, Disclosure, Four Tet, Wild Beasts and Purity Ring. Other projects include collaborations with Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes and Bonobo, as well as productions for London Grammar and Coldplay.

He began composing for film in 2009, working with Eno and Leo Abrahams on the score to Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. He then wrote the music for the 2010 short film Rob and Vanentyna in Scotland and Gareth Edwards’ classic indie sci-fi film Monsters, which earned an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Score. There followed scores for How I Live Now, Uwantme2killhim? and the National Theatre Live production of Hamlet. His work has also appeared in numerous films, TV series and adverts.

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