The present season marks Daniel Hope’s ninth with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO), where he took over from Sir Roger Norrington as Music Director in 2016. After an extensive German tour this February, Hope and the conductor-less ensemble conclude their season together at the Zurich Tonhalle, where, alongside works by Elgar and Virgil Thomson, he is the soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (June 4).

Hope’s other upcoming European engagements include renditions of his signature “Irish Roots” program in Bern, Switzerland (March 22) and Wiesbaden, Germany (May 28), as well as a solo recital at Germany’s Frauenkirche Dresden (March 27), where his tenure as Artistic Director has been extended through 2031. He and the ZCO will subsequently reunite this summer at Gstaad and at the Frauenkirche, where nonagenarian guest conductor Zubin Mehta will lead a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, with Hope as violin soloist and two-time Grammy winner Pinchas Zukerman on viola (July 11).