Daniel Hope
Amidst the early COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020, Daniel Hope launched “Hope at Home,” a daily livestream on ARTE TV, in which Hope transformed his living room into a television set to bring quality classical performances to encourage viewers to stay home. The series was followed by “[email protected] on Tour”, in which Hope traveled to…
In September 2020, Daniel Hope hosted an academy for young musicians aged 16–22 at Schloss Neuhardenberg. Participation aws free of charge to successful applicants and included all instruction, five star accommodation, food and travel (within Germany).
A film with Daniel Hope and Anne Sofie von Otter Daniel Hope has devoted over 15 years to the intensive study and preservation of music by composers who were murdered by the Nazis. Many of them were imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp. Following a prize-winning Deutsche Grammophon album with Anne Sofie von Otter…
On November 10, 2013, Daniel Hope performed at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate for an audience of 12,000 in a ceremony honoring the victims of “Kristallnacht.” Also known as the Night of Broken Glass, the massacre of November 9–10, 1938, alerted the world to the barbarism of the Nazis. The ceremony, which marked the 75th anniversary of…
For the 2014 Carnegie Hall commission A Distant Drum, violinist Daniel Hope curated a unique production of music-theatre, joining forces with his father, Christopher Hope, one of South African’s most eminent novelists. A portrait in words with music by German Jazz musician Ralf Schmid, A Distant Drum tells the story of Nat Nakasa. A brilliant, irreverent…
