Professor Gregory H. Hopkins has been the Minister of
Music at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in New York
City for seventeen years. He is responsible for seven
choirs, a music staff of seven, and their leadership in
worship. At Convent, he has conducted concerts with
choruses and orchestras featuring music from Handel to
Duke Ellington along with traditional African music, hymns,
gospel, and spirituals. Greg is an adjunct professor of music
at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Additionally, he has served as Director of Music of the
National Baptist Convention and Assistant Director of
Hampton University’s Ministers Conference. He serves as
a vocal instructor at the Thomas Dorsey’s National
Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Lecturer,
“Music in the African American Church” at Westminister
Choir College and the Seminary of the East.
Professor Hopkins has toured his choirs in North America,
South America, Europe, and Korea spreading the Good
News through song.
