Daniel Hope
This April, New Century Chamber Orchestra spotlights the work of three composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their contrasting searches for peace. Up-and-coming San Francisco-based composer Jungyoon Wie’s masterful A Prayer for Peace makes its West Coast debut in this program. A 2024 New Century co-commission with Boston’s A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra,…
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…
Two rotating programs loom large in Hope’s 2024–25 season, both documented on recent Deutsche Grammophon albums: Irish Roots was released this past summer, and DANCE!, which traces the history of Western dance from medieval times to the present day, was released in December 2023. Hope gives numerous performances of ”Irish Roots” – with a chamber…
In 2022, PBS stations nationwide aired Celtic Dreams: Daniel Hope’s Hidden Irish History, a TV documentary following the violinist as he explored Ireland, Irish music and his own family past. July 5 sees the release of Irish Roots, an album on Deutsche Grammophon propelled by Hope’s desire to investigate and express previously dormant strands of his…
Gstaad: The journey on the blue railway, which gently meanders from Montreux to the Bernese Oberland, through wide valleys, along steep rocky slopes, past waterfalls and rivers, as if entering a fairytale world, is overwhelming. You climb higher and higher and the roads you see from the window become more and more winding until, suddenly,…
On November 1, 2025, Daniel Hope will take over as the newly elected Intendant & Artistic Director of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy. He succeeds Christoph Müller, who will be leaving Gstaad at the end of the 2025 festival after 24 successful years at the helm. Daniel Hope, also Music Director of the Zurich…
