Daniel Hope
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…
Daniel Hope looks forward to a full Europe lineup. He kicks off the season with violin sonatas by English composers Elgar and William Walton at London’s Wigmore Hall, in a lunchtime recital with pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, to be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 (Sep 15). Early next year, Hope headlines the final concert of…
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has appointed Daniel Hope Artistic Advisor for Chamber Music at The Barns beginning in the 2025-26 season. “I am delighted to join Wolf Trap as Artistic Advisor of its renowned chamber music series beginning in the 2025–2026 season. It is a particular honor to follow in the footsteps…
