January 2019,

 

We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Hope to our roster. 

The violinist, author, musical activist, music and artistic director of orchestras and festivals,

Daniel Hope belongs to the most important personalities of classical music world today. 

 

The violinist Daniel Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for 25 years and is celebrated for his musical versatility as well as his dedication to humanitarian causes. Since the start of the 2016/17 season, Daniel Hope is Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra – an orchestra with whom he is closely associated since his early childhood. 

 

The youngest ever member of the Beaux Arts Trio during its final six seasons, today Daniel Hope performs at all the world’s greatest halls and festivals: from Carnegie Hall to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, from Salzburg to Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (where he was Artistic Director from 2009-2013) and from Aspen to the BBC Proms and Tanglewood. He has worked with conductors including Kurt Masur, Thomas Hengelbrock and Christian Thielemann, as well as with the world’s greatest symphony orchestras including Boston, Chicago, Berlin, Paris, London, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

 Daniel Hope is one of the world’s most prolific classical recording artists, with over 25 albums to his name. His recordings have won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d’Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award, the Prix Caecilia, seven ECHO-Klassik Awards and numerous Grammy nominations. Hope has been an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007.

Daniel Hope has penned four bestselling books published in Germany by the Rowohlt publishing company. He contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal and has written scripts for collaborative performances with the actors Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch and Mia Farrow. In Germany he also presents a weekly radio show for the WDR3 Channel and curates, since the 2016/17 season his own series “Hope@9pm”, a music and discussion event with well known guests from culture and politics at the Konzerthaus Berlin. 

Since 2004 Hope has been Associate Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival. From 2018/19 he will begin a new role as “Music Director” of the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco, being related to the orchestra since 2017 as „Artistic Partner“ directing the Ensemble from the violin. In 2019 he will also start his new position as „Artistic Director“ of the Frauenkirche Dresden

 

Representation in Asia ( without Japan) and special projects worldwide, in collaboration with Daniel Engstfeld/Hope Management 

 

Please read full biography here