Daniel Hope
Last year, Daniel Hope appeared with a quintet from San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO) on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, the live weekly Netflix talk show, and this spring he leads the orchestra from the violin on two Bay Area tours. At concerts in Berkeley (March 13), San Francisco (March 14), and Belvedere…
A dedicated chamber artist, Daniel Hope gives three chamber performances in the States this spring. He reunites with cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han in Kansas City for Haydn’s Piano Trio in A, Beethoven’s First Piano Trio, and Dvořák’s beloved “Dumky” (March 6). They repeat this program two days later at Wolf Trap, where…
Since November 1, 2025, Daniel Hope has been steering the artistic future of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad as its intendant. With his first program, entitled Family Matters, he is deliberately building on the founding idea of the Festival: 70 years ago, Yehudi Menuhin brought friends and companions from all over the world to the picturesque…
On November 1, 2025, Daniel Hope took over as the newly elected Intendant & Artistic Director of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy. He succeeds Christoph Müller, who leaves Gstaad at the end of the 2025 festival after 24 successful years at the helm. Daniel Hope, also Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and…
This season, Daniel Hope leads the New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO) on four Bay Area tours. At concerts in Berkeley (Oct 30), Vallejo (Oct 31), San Francisco (Nov 1), and Belvedere Tiburon (Nov 2), he undertakes the solo violin roles in both Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Dawn by Dobrinka Tabakova. Joined by the San Francisco…
The 2025–26 season marks Hope’s ninth as music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO). To kick off the new season, he leads the conductor-less ensemble from the violin in an opening night concert in the Tonhalle Zurich. After favorites for strings by Vaughan Williams and Respighi, principal cellist Nicola Mosca joins them as harp…
