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Celtic Dreams: Daniel Hope’s Hidden Irish History, a new TV documentary, follows violinist Daniel Hope as he gets behind the wheel to explore Ireland, Irish music and his own family roots. It was his great-grandfather, Danny McKenna, who left Ireland for South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, and the trip’s emotional highlight…

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Daniel Hope returns to 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 Lankan…

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Los Angeles 1943 – Escape to Paradise “LA Exiles in Paradise 1943” brings to life, through the twin lenses of words and music, an extraordinary creative flowering driven by one of history’s darkest periods. Daniel Hope’s brilliant research, recording and writing, alongside the expert curation and interpretation of Thomas Hampson, the eminent “ambassador of…

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Berlin 1938 – “Das Schicksaljahr” Daniel Hope, Thomas Hampson, Horst Maria Merz and Friends 1938 – described even by the Nazis as “the fateful year” was a moment in time in which the situation of German Jews changed abruptly and irrevocably within a few months. A severe increase in the deprivation of rights, discrimination,…

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Baritone Thomas Hampson and violinist Daniel Hope unite to bring you an evening of unparalleled American romantic music, inspired by such greats as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Kurt Weill. New arrangements by Paul Bateman enable stunning chamber versions of some of the most beloved melodies of all time, including “Begin The Beguine”,…

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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 “Hope@Home on Tour”, in which Hope traveled to…

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What is the Hope Academy? In 2018, Daniel Hope and the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation jointly established the Hope Academy, a new form of masterclass held once a year at Neuhardenberg Castle. It is led by Daniel Hope in cooperation with renowned international guest tutors and pedagogues such as Philip Dukes, Jacques Ammon, Daniel Geiss and…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Two rotating programs loom large in Hope’s 2024–25 season, both documented on recent Deutsche Grammophon albums: Irish Roots was released this past summer, and DANCE!, which traces the history of Western dance from medieval times to the present day, was released in December 2023. Hope gives numerous performances of ”Irish Roots” – with a chamber...

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