Daniel Hope & the AIR Ensemble

Schubert Club’s 2023-2024 Featured Artist, British violinist Daniel Hope will perform “A Baroque Journey” with close musician friends the AIR Ensemble, at Minnesota Opera’s Luminary Arts Center.  Air sets out to trace a baroque journey, demonstrating the diversity and breadth of the music of the Baroque era.

Hope and the AIR Ensemble have made music together for more than a decade. Their performances not only highlight their outstanding musicianship, but also bring out the humanity of an ensemble of musical friends and like-minded thinkers.

British violinist Daniel Hope has enjoyed a thriving international solo career for more than 30 years. Celebrated for his musical versatility and dedication to humanitarian causes, he has been recognized with a string of honors including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 2015 European Culture Prize for Music. Besides undertaking solo recitals, chamber concerts and concerto collaborations with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, Hope directs many ensembles from the violin, succeeding Roger Norrington as Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in 2016 and becoming Music Director of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra two years later. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, he has an award-winning discography and is also a popular radio and television host who recently anchored the award-winning streaming and TV 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 Cathedral. In 2020, following in the distinguished footsteps of Kurt Masur and Joseph Joachim, Hope started his tenure as President of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn.

“There are few figures in today’s classical music who so perfectly embody the role of ambassador for music as Daniel Hope.” – Gramophone (2020)

Performers:

Daniel Hope – Violin
Simos Papanas – Violin
Nicola Mosca – Violoncello
Emanuele Forni – Lute
Markellos Chryssicos – Cembalo
Michael Metzler – Percussion