Hope has been collaborating for eight years with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, who serves as Artistic Director of the Odessa Classics Festival, and released an album of the music of Alfred Schnittke with the pianist last fall.

Hope has also just been named the Featured Artist for 2023 of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, where he will program 50 concerts throughout the calendar year to celebrate his 50th birthday. The violinist also looks forward to presenting a series of “Winter’s Tale” Christmas concerts at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, leading the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZCO), of which he is also Music Director, in three sets of European concerts during the season and a North American tour in the spring and filming his second documentary with the French/German ARTE network in November. Their season opener is Berlin 1938: Broadcasts from a Vanishing Society, a musical radio drama featuring vocalists Thomas Hampson and Horst Maria Merz playing both radio broadcasters and singers. Also this season, Hope leads San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, of which he has been Music Director since 2018, in four sets of performances, plus a European tour, celebrating the ensemble’s 30th anniversary. Recorded with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, the new album was made in collaboration with the 84-year-old composer himself, and includes the world premiere of his Pastorales 2020. (September 2022)-On September 30, violinist Daniel Hope, lauded by San Francisco Classical Voice as a “ master violinist and ‘musical activist’ in perpetual motion,” follows up his Music for Ukraine EP, released this past spring, with a full-length album on Deutsche Grammophon of the music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Photo: Daniel Hope (photo: Daniel Waldhecker)

Daniel Hope’s 2022-23: Silvestrov Album with Alexey Botvinov on DG (Sep 30), Multimedia 30th Anniversary Concerts with New Century Chamber Orchestra (Sep 16–18), Much More

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