Hal H. Hopson

Hal H. Hopson is a full time composer and church musician residing in Dallas, Texas. He has over 1,300 published works that comprise almost every musical forum in church music. Hal has a special interest in congregational hymn tunes and responsorial psalm settings as evidenced by the proliferation of his settings in newly published hymnals and psalm collections.

He attended Baylor University where in 1954 he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1956 he was awarded the Master of Sacred Music degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has done further study at the University of Erlangen (Germany), the Peabody Conservatory and Southern Methodist University. Hopson taught church music at the prestigious Westminster Choir College, the Scarritt Graduate School, and has served congregations in several different states.

Mr. Hopson is active as a conductor and clinician, having conducted choral festivals and workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Korea. He is active in several professional organizations including the American Guild of Organists (AGO), having served on the national boards of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and Choristers Guild. As a member of ASCAP, Mr. Hopson has received an annual award from that agency for many consecutive years.