{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Women of Notes","title":"#7 Helen Hopekirk - with pianist-researcher, Hannah Roberts","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3745,"description":"I am joined by Dr. Hannah Roberts for a conversation about Scottish-born American composer, Helen Hopekirk. Hopekirk was known as one of the greatest pianists in her day and also became a well-regarded piano teacher. Hannah has recently released a beautiful recording of Hopekirk's piano music under the Parma label.\nKnown for her work championing female voices in the keyboard repertoire, American pianist\nHannah Roberts has performed throughout the United States and abroad in Austria, Serbia, and the\nUnited Kingdom. Her scholarship focuses on reviving the works of overlooked female composers\nwith a special emphasis on Scottish-American pianist Helen Hopekirk, and her album Celtic Legends:\nThe Piano Music of Helen Hopekirk was released by Navona Records in Fall 2026.\nAlong with her active performing career, Roberts maintains a vibrant profile as a clinician,\npedagogue, and researcher. Her articles on female composers have appeared in American Music\nTeacher, Piano Magazine, and the MTNA e-Journal, and she was awarded the 2023 Edward T. Cone\nFellowship from the Society for American Music for her research on Hopekirk’s piano music. She\nhas also presented lectures at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP), College\nMusic Society National Conference (CMS), National Association of Teachers of Singing National\nConference (NATS), and state and national conferences of Music Teachers National Association\n(MTNA).\nRoberts currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Alabama, where she\nteaches piano and piano pedagogy. She holds a D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from\nthe University of Oklahoma.\nWebsite: hannahrobertspiano.com\nHopekirk Album (PARMA/Navona Records): https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6892/\nwomenofnotes.substack.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wFbyW8_00TRk4ZXDjswnnf2tRNAVlJ6aouusylJstAo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTVk/YWI1MThkYzZhZTdi/MjI2NTk1M2RlOTE5/NzJkMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}