Jon Hopkins is a British musician who writes and performs his own music, melody-led electronica. He was born and brought up in London and started playing the piano when he was five. By the age of twelve he was studying piano at London's Royal College of Music.
He has worked with Coldplay, Imogen Heap, King Creosote, David Holmes, Massive Attack, Chris Coco and Brian Eno, amongst many others.
His debut album Opalescent is on Just Music's Absolute Zero imprint. Hopkins' second album Contact Note was released on Absolute Zero through Just Music in August 2004.
In April 2008, the independent web label Sounds Asleep released "The Fourth State", a single 32 minute long track of "pure ambient" music recorded by Hopkins in 2004.
Hopkins's third album, Insides, was released by Just Music in conjunction with Domino Records on May 5, 2009.
Hopkins was commissioned by multi-award-winning Wayne McGregor – renowned for his fierce, physically-testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations – to compose music for Entity, the latest production for McGregor's "Random Dance" troupe. Entity was performed live at Sadler's Wells in April 2008, and will later tour around Europe.
On May 5, 2009, the song "Light Through the Veins" from Hopkins' album Insides was released for free on iTunes as part of their Discovery Downloads. This song is also featured as the introduction to the first track "Life In Technicolor" on Coldplay's 2008 album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends as well as the backing for the "The Escapist" which is hidden at the end of the album. Jon worked as one of the co-producers for Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends contributing sounds and various keyboard instruments.
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