Dr. Amanda Hopson, Coordinator of Collaborative Piano at Butler University in Indianapolis, has worked collaboratively since the age of ten and has performed and recorded with vocalists, instrumentalists, and choral groups for over forty years. She was one of the early pianists for the Grammy-winning choir Conspirare, and she has accompanied vocalists in masterclasses given by artists such as Frederica von Stade, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Nathan Gunn, Jake Heggie, and Jason Robert Brown. She particularly relishes performing works by contemporary composers, and in 2013, she collaborated with tenor Kerry Jennings on a Centaur Records recording entitled In My Memory: American Songs and Song Cycles, featuring works by Libby Larsen, Tom Cipullo, Lori Laitman, and Richard Pearson Thomas. It is featured on Libby Larsen’s website as the reference recording of her cycle My Antonía.