Daniel Hope
Born in:
Durban, Südafrika
Current centre of life:
Berlin
Instrument:
Violin
Second, third or even fourth instrument:
Piano
My career aspiration as a child:
Violinist
This was the profession my parents envisioned for me:
Artist
Works or concert experiences that shaped me:
The Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
Work with the greatest music-making pleasure (and why?):
Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” – because I not only had the musical direction and played the violin, but also got to be an actor.
I would like a work for my instrument by this composer (and why?):
Thomas Adès, because he is brilliant.
I would get up in the middle of the night for that:
My children.
Special / curious own concert experience:
When an open-air performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto was drowned out by a choir of frogs from an adjacent pond.
My most valuable tip for the next generation of musicians:
The re-invitation makes the career, not the invitation.
That's what I wish for the future of the classical music scene:
Fewer busybodies.
My next project:
A new violin concerto by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
That's what I associate with Leipzig as a city of music:
Mendelssohn!