Daniel Hope & Marie Sophie Hauzel
British violinist Daniel Hope has enjoyed a distinguished international solo career for more than 35 years. Celebrated for his musical versatility and commitment to humanitarian causes, he has received numerous honours, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 2015 European Culture Prize for Music.
In addition to performing solo recitals and chamber concerts and appearing as a concerto soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, Hope also leads numerous ensembles from the violin. In 2016, he succeeded Sir Roger Norrington as Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and two years later became Music Director of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra.
An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, Hope has an award-winning discography. He is also a popular radio and television presenter and, during the pandemic, hosted the award-winning streaming and television series Hope@Home. In 2019, he completed his 16th and final season as Associate Artistic Director of Georgia’s Savannah Music Festival and became Artistic Director of Dresden’s Frauenkirche. In 2020, following in the distinguished footsteps of Kurt Masur and Joseph Joachim, he became President of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. In November 2025, he became Intendant and Artistic Director of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, founded by Yehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten.
Daniel Hope studied at London’s Highgate School and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied violin with Zakhar Bron and Itzhak Rashkovsky. He also worked closely with his mentor Yehudi Menuhin, with whom he gave numerous concerts around the world. Now living in Switzerland with his family, Hope plays the 1742 Guarneri del Gesù violin known as the “ex-Lipínski”, generously placed at his disposal.
Marie Sophie Hauzel began playing the piano at the age of four. At just eight years old, she was admitted to the gifted young musicians programme at the renowned Leopold Mozart Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she studied with Professor Andreas Weber.
In 2015, alongside her secondary education, she began studying piano performance. At the age of fifteen, she became the youngest full-time student ever admitted to the University of Salzburg. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the age of twenty, followed by a Master of Arts in 2023. In 2026, she undertook the prestigious artistic research programme Excellence in Performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich under the guidance of Professor Markus Bellheim.
Programme
- Antonín Dvořák, Sonatina in G major, Op. 100
- Alexey Shor, Sonata No. 1 in D minor
- César Franck, Sonata in A major
