This winter and spring, Daniel Hope focuses on performances in the U.S., giving three sets of performances with New Century Chamber Orchestra and touring his “Journey to Mozart” program to four destinations in Florida, Georgia, and Colorado with the Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia.

Following their January program featuring pianist Inon Barnatan, Hope and New Century give the West Coast premiere of a piece they co-commissioned with A Far Cry chamber orchestra: Jungyoon Wie’s A Prayer for Peace, concerto grosso for string orchestra. The program also includes Adolphus Hailstork’s Sonata da Chiesa for String Orchestra and Richard Strauss’s late Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings (April 4–6).

The U.S. debut of Hope’s “DANCE!” program draws his New Century season to a close with performances in four California locations: Berkeley (May 1), Belvedere Tiburon (May 2), San Francisco’s Presidio Theatre (May 3), and Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall (May 4). The “DANCE!” program is documented on a recently released double album on Deutsche Grammophon that offers almost two hours of dance music from around the world, in styles that range from Baroque opera and Russian ballet to klezmer, tango and swing.

One of the works from Hope’s “DANCE” program, Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, is featured alongside violin concertos and symphonies by both Haydn and Mozart, as well as Gluck’s “Dance of the Furies” from Orfeo, in Hope’s “Journey to Mozart” performances in Florida, Georgia, and Colorado with the Polish Chamber Orchestra of Sinfonia Varsovia (Feb 23–March 2). Repertoire for these performances is derived from Hope’s 2018 Deutsche Grammophon release by the same name, one of six albums to date, including DANCE!, on which the violinist is partnered by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, where he is in his ninth season as Music Director.

Another recent Deutsche Grammophon release was Irish Roots, which was a follow-up to Hope’s documentary Celtic Dreams: Daniel Hope’s Hidden Irish History, aired nationwide on PBS stations in 2022. Hope performs his “Irish Roots” program this winter – with a chamber ensemble that includes a second violin, cello/harp, lute/Baroque guitar, harpsichord, and percussion – in Waiblingen, Germany (Jan 29). The following day, Hope goes to the Konzerthaus Berlin for this winter’s installment of the series of programs called “Hope@9pm,” a salon for music and conversation for which he is joined by his regular accompanist, pianist Jacques Ammon. Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is the featured guest (Jan 30).

Finally, Hope gives two performances at the end of the season in Barcelona, joining the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and conductor Salvador Mas for Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel,” composed after the 18-year-old daughter of Walter Gropius and Berg’s friend and patron Alma Mahler died of polio (May 24, 25). Composed in the year of Berg’s death, the score was never corrected by the composer; a critical edition was finally made in the 1990s by Professor Douglas Jarman, and it premiered in Vienna in 1996 with Hope as soloist. The violinist also made the first recording of that version, in 2004 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paul Watkins, and it was voted the “top choice of all available recordings” by Gramophone magazine.