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Daniel Hope (born 17 August 1973,

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, South Africa) is a European classical violinist.

Early life and education

Hope was born in Durban, South Africa, and is of Irish and Jewish German descent, his maternal grandparents, formerly from Berlin, having escaped

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. His father is the novelist Christopher Hope,

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, and his mother Eleanor Hope worked as an assistant to

Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor ** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England ** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to the v ...

. At age six months, his family moved from South Africa to London, because of his father's anti-apartheid views. In the UK Hope was educated at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...

and studied at the

Yehudi Menuhin School The Yehudi Menuhin School is a Specialist school, specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. The current director of music is the British classical pianist Ashley Wass. ...

in Stoke d'Abernon. In 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Violin by the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

, where he had studied under

Zakhar Bron Zakhar Bron (russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон ; born 17 December 1947, in Oral, Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish, Polish and Romanian descent. His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendoly ...

and gained a diploma (DipRAM) and a fellowship (FRAM).

Career

Hope became the violinist of the

Beaux Arts Trio The Beaux Arts Trio was a noted piano trio, celebrated for their vivacity, emotional depth and wide-ranging repertoire. They made their debut on 13 July 1955, at the Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, known today as the ...

in 2002. His burgeoning career led to his decision to leave the Beaux Arts Trio, which in turn led to the decision to disband the ensemble. The Beaux Arts Trio, with Hope as the final violinist in the history of the ensemble, gave its final concerts in August 2008. Hope has served as an associate artistic director of the

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. In April 2015 he was named the new music director of the

Zurich Chamber Orchestra The Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Zürcher Kammerorchester; ZKO, German abbreviation) is a Swiss chamber orchestra based in Zurich. The ZKO's principal concert venue in Zurich is the Tonhalle. The ZKO also performs in Zurich at the Schauspielhaus Zü ...

, effective in 2016. On 16 March 2018, at the conclusion of a joint performance by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and

New Century Chamber Orchestra The New Century Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1992 by cellist, Miriam Perkoff, and violist, Wieslaw Pogorzelski. The goal of the founders was to present classical music in a fresh and unique way in the San Francisco Bay Area. The music director ...

at which he served as concertmaster, Hope was announced as the latter ensemble's new music and artistic director. In 2017 he was awarded the Cross of the

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for his merits in the musical constitution of commemorative culture. Hope plays the 1737

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"ex- Lipinski" violin.

As a presenter

Daniel Hope presented the 2013 documentary film ''The Secrets of the Violin'', which explored the history of violin making from

Amati Amati (, ) is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740. Their importance is considered equal to those of the Bergonzi, Guarneri, and Stradivari families. Today, violins created by Nicolò A ...

Stradivari Antonio Stradivari (, also , ; – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, ''Stradivarius'', as well as the colloquia ...

and Guarneri to modern makers like

Samuel Zygmuntowicz Samuel Zygmuntowicz (born 1956) is a contemporary luthier and is widely regarded as one of the finest violin makers of his generation. He began his instrument making training at age 13, and studied making and restoration under Peter Prier, Carl B ...

. Hope and were the presenters for the

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in Cologne, Germany on 3 September 2016.

Hope@Home (2020)

In March 2020, in response to the

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, Hope began a series of over 100 live concerts broadcast on

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. These broadcasts under the title "Hope@Home" reached an audience of millions, and earned an OPUS KLASSIK award, ''Sonderpreis der Jury für besondere Leistungen''. The project began as

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s filmed at his home in Berlin. Appearing with him were artists, often well known, who were also living in the city.

= Hope@Home on Tour

= With the easing of lockdown in the summer of 2020, it became possible to move the concerts out of Hope's home to other locations ("Hope@Home on Tour") before the series came to a temporary halt.

= Hope@Home Next Generation

= In November, as social distancing tightened across Europe with the second wave of the pandemic, the series resumed in Hope's living-room, this time with a focus on young performers, as "Hope@Home Next Generation". In mid-November the Hope@Home team travelled to San Francisco where Hope worked with the New Century Chamber Orchestra and other artists. Returning to Berlin, the series continued into December 2020.

Christmas concert

In December 2021 and 2022, special Christmas concerts were streamed on the ARTE Concert channel.

Personal life

Hope is in his second marriage to the painter Silvana Kaiser. The couple lived in Vienna and moved to Berlin in 2016. He holds Irish and German nationality.

Discography

In 2020 Hope released a disc of highlights from the Hope@Home broadcasts and a Christmas compilation. He has recorded commercially for

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since 2007.

Awards for recordings

Hope has been recognised in the

Echo Klassik The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories. The award, presented by the , was held annually, usually in October or September, separate from its parent award, the Echo Music Prize E ...

awards (often stylized as ECHO Klassik, this was Germany's major classical music award until its renaming in 2018) and its successor award Opus Klassik. *2004: ECHO Klassik: Newcomer of the Year (''Violin Concertos –

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

'') *2006: ECHO Klassik: Chamber Music Recording of the Year (''East Meets West'') *2006: ECHO Klassik: Musician of the Year (''Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Concertos 1 & 2'') *2008: ECHO Klassik: Concert Recording of the Year (''Mendelssohn'' (with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor

Thomas Hengelbrock Thomas Hengelbrock (born 9 June 1958) is a German violinist, musicologist, stage director and conductor. Born in Wilhelmshaven, Hengelbrock studied the violin with Rainer Kussmaul. He started his career in Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau. ...

)) *2009: ECHO Klassik: Concert Recording of the year (''Vivaldi'') *2013: ECHO Klassik: ''Classic without Borders'' ('' Recomposed by Max Richter'') *2017: ECHO Klassik: ''Classic without Borders'' (''For Seasons'') *2021: Opus Klassik: Special award

References

External links

Daniel Hope official websiteDaniel Hope's biography

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