Daniel Hope
violin

Performance Dates
April 1 3:00 PM
BRAHMS : Violin Concerto

The Associate Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival, the young British violinist, Daniel Hope, is renowned the world over for his musical vitality and creativity. In 2004 he won three major awards for his recording of Berg and Britten Concerti; the Classical Brit Awards in England, and in Germany the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the ECHO Klassik Prize. At the 2005 Grammy™ Awards he received two nominations; and in October 2005 he won the ECHO Prize for the second year in succession. Hope appears regularly with major orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre National de France, Royal Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Detroit Symphony, to name a very few. Daniel Hope began studying the violin at the age of four with Sheila Nelson in London. He then went on to study with Itzhak Rashkovsky, Felix Andrievsky and Grigory Zhislin at the Royal College of Music. A pupil at Highgate School in London, from 1992-98 he was a student of the Russian pedagogue, Zakhar Bron, also graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he holds the DipRAM and ARAM. Since 2002 Daniel Hope is also the youngest ever member of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, with whom he tours all major venues in Europe and North America once a year, The Savannah Music Festival welcomes the Beaux Arts Trio this year. Mr. Hope will also be guest soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the SMF.

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Updated: 1/19/07