Daniel Hope
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…
For Daniel Hope, February 2 brings the physical and digital release of DANCE! by Deutsche Grammophon. Tracing the history of Western dance from medieval times to the 20th century, this imaginatively programmed new double album offers almost two hours of music by Purcell, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Price, Bartók, Piazzolla and others, in styles that range…
Daniel Hope returns to the ARTE TV this December for Daniel Hope & Friends in New York. Usually captured at his Berlin home, this year’s edition of his annual holiday concert is broadcast from New York, where the violinist joins American soprano Ailyn Pérez, French pianist Lise de la Salle, Jamaican-American reggae star Shaggy, Sri…
