Daniel Hope
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…
As Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO), Daniel Hope led the ensemble in a six-city German tour along with Polish violist Ryszard Groblewski that featured David Bruce’s new violin concerto, Lully Loops, a tribute to the great 17th-century composer and violinist at the court of Louis XIV in Versailles. Hope also gave solo…
Appointed in 2018 as Music Director and Concertmaster of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO), one of the world’s few conductorless ensembles, Hope begins his U.S. season leading the ensemble in four Bay Area concerts at the first “California Festival: A Celebration of New Music.” Featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor and an eight-voice chorus, their…
