Beethoven-Haus Chairman

Violinist Daniel Hope has been performing as a soloist for more than 30 years. and is celebrated worldwide for his musical creativity and his commitment to humanitarian humanitarian causes.

Since 2007, he has been an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon, and as a Hope has toured the world as a chamber musician and soloist, collaborating with leading orchestras and conductors. Since 2016 he has been Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and in 2018 he took up the same position with the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco. In 2019, Hope also became Artistic Director of the Frauenkirche Dresden, and since 2020 he has been President of the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. Beethovenhaus, succeeding Joseph Joachim and Kurt Masur.

Hope is a welcome guest in famous concert halls and at renowned festivals. festivals, from New York's Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, from Salzburg to Aspen and Tanglewood, from Schleswig-Holstein and Gstaad to the BBC Proms in London. He works regularly with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Iván Fischer and Christian Thielemann. Thielemann as well as with world-renowned orchestras such as the symphony orchestras of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo. A close with composers such as Alfred Schnittke, György Kurtág, Mark Markov György Kurtág, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Tōru Takemitsu and Tan Dun.

His discography includes more than 30 albums, which have won prizes such as the German the Diapason d'Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award and the Prix Caecilia. and the Prix Caecilia, and regularly receives critical acclaim (New York Times: "one of the best (New York Times: "one of the best albums of the year"; Gramophone: "top choice of all available recordings").

Hope is a passionate chamber musician and was a member of the Beaux Art Trio for many years. Trio for many years. His artistic versatility is also evident in projects with artists such as Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch, Iris Berben, Mia Farrow and Sting. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch, Iris Berben, Mia Farrow or Sting as well as in radio and and Sting, as well as in radio and television presentations. A documentary film entitled Daniel Hope - The Sound of Life was released in North America, Australia and Europe in 2017. cinemas.

Since 2016, he has been hosting the weekly programme "Daniel Hope In addition, he has written four books, all published by Rowohlt and and have become bestsellers. He writes for the Wall Street The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, and invites guests from the worlds of culture and politics to his "Hope@9pm" series and politics to Berlin's Konzerthaus for his series "Hope@9pm".

In support of other artists, Daniel Hope conceived and hosted hosted more than 150 programmes of music and conversation during the 2020 lockdown music and talks, which were broadcast by Arte and featured artists from artists from Robert Wilson to Lang Lang were guests. This also raised raised funds for other solo musicians. With the beginning of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Daniel Hope initiated several benefit concerts with the pianist Alexey Botvinov.

Daniel Hope studied violin with Zakhar Bron, Itzhak Rashkovsky and Felix Andrievsky and completed his training at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Music. He worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous with whom he has given numerous concerts worldwide.

Hope is a recipient of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and was awarded the European Cultural Prize in 2015. He lives with his family in Berlin and plays the "Ex-Lipiński" Guarneri del Gesù from 1742, which is made available to him. put at his disposal.