Daniel Hope
This spring, Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO) tour material from their America album to the nation that inspired it, with performances in Ann Arbor, MI (March 17), West Palm Beach, FL (March 19), Costa Mesa, CA (March 25) and Fairfax, VA (April 2). Marking their third U.S. tour together, the trip also includes…
For their second set of concerts in the season, Daniel Hope and New Century present a selection of music from iconic films (Jan 19–22). Repertoire includes Bernard Herrmann’s music from Hitchcock’s Vertigo and selected film music by Ennio Morricone, both arranged by Paul Bateman; Gershwin’s American in Paris arranged by Clarice Assad; and the Double…
A protégé of Yehudi Menuhin, Daniel Hope spent much of his childhood in the older violinist’s home, where he first met Sting, the iconic musician whose honors include 17 Grammy Awards, five Emmys, four BRITs, three Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. Hope explains: “Sting is a phenomenal musician. I’ve known him since I was…
Daniel Hope has been collaborating for eight years with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, who serves as Artistic Director of the Odessa Classics Festival, and released an album of the music of Alfred Schnittke with the pianist last fall. For the 2020 festival in Odessa, they had the idea of commissioning a work from Ukrainian composer…
(September 2022)—On September 30, violinist Daniel Hope, lauded by San Francisco Classical Voice as a “master violinist and ‘musical activist’ in perpetual motion,” follows up his Music for Ukraine EP, released this past spring, with a full-length album on Deutsche Grammophon of the music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Recorded with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov,…
United in their support for Ukraine, Daniel Hope and pianist Alexey Botvinov recorded this EP featuring works by Ukrainian composers Valentin Silvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk and Jan Freidlin. Listen here. Everyone involved in the production donated their time and all future royalties will be donated to the Aktion Deutschland Hilft, a global relief emergency fund which…
