Daniel Hope’s summer 2012 spans Aspen, L.A., Europe

British violinist Daniel Hope brings his “probing intellect and commanding style” (New York Times) as soloist, chamber musician and artistic director to venues this summer ranging from the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado and the Hollywood Bowl in California to Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. At Aspen and the Hollywood Bowl in July, he will perform Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus a recital at Aspen with pianist Jeffrey Kahane featuring works by Ravel, Walton, Mendelssohn, and Schulhoff. Having performed with many of the world’s major orchestras and ensembles, Hope is increasingly in the spotlight as a creative director. This will be Hope’s third summer as artistic director of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, where, in addition to performing concerts of his own, he has invited musician colleagues from Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Savannah Music Festival, where he is also associate artistic director. At the Verbier Festival in July, Hope will perform two concerts of chamber works by Bruch, Schubert, von Weber, Taneyev and Schulhoff, plus a chamber concert paying homage to Jewish composers interned at the Terezin concentration camp.
 
The first of the violinist’s two Aspen appearances this summer will be on July 8 as soloist in Prokofiev’s Russian- and Spanish-tinged Violin Concerto No. 2, with Thomas Sondergard leading the Aspen Festival Orchestra in a performance at the Benedict Music Tent.  Hope will take on violin sonatas by Ravel (Op. posth.), Walton, Schulhoff (No. 2), and Mendelssohn (F major) at a July 10 recital with pianist Jeffrey Kahane at Aspen’s Harris Concert Hall. For Hope’s July 12 date at the Hollywood Bowl, Leonard Slatkin will lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hope in the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2.
 
The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival takes place throughout the entire state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northeastern Germany from June to September, making it one of the largest festivals in Europe. In his role as artistic director, Hope programmed three June concerts in Heiligendamm, Schwerin and Greifswald, calling it the Carnegie Hall Project. On June 13, members of Ensemble ACJW—the performing arm of The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education— performed chamber works by composers once banned by the Nazis. On June 14, Ensemble ACJW and Hope performed works by Poulenc, Tansman, Bartók, Messiaen and Schumann, and on June 15, Hope and ACJW joined the Concertino Ensemble Rostock for a chamber program of works by Haas, Schulhoff, Klein, and Mendelssohn, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane. During the same festival in August, Hope has programmed three concerts featuring musicians from the Savannah Music Festival, where he also serves as associate artistic director. The Savannah Project’s opening concert on August 8 in Rühn will feature Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano; Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor; and Schubert’s Octet in F (Op. posth. 166, D 803). The repertoire for the two remaining Savannah Project concerts on August 9 and 10 in Bad Doberan and Kotelow will range from Richard Strauss, Dvorák and Beethoven to Edgar Meyer and Brahms. Four programs in August and September at the Mecklenburg festival will include the participation of Hope’s longtime Chamber Music of Lincoln Center colleagues, with pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel foremost among them. On August 29 in Heiligendamm, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and violist Paul Neubauer join Wu Han and Finckel to perform a program of Beethoven, Adolphe, and Fauré; an August 30 concert in Bützow brings together the same artists plus Hope and cellist Li-Wei Qin performing works by Dohnányi, Menotti, and Arenski. On August 31 in Schönberg and on September 2 in Samow, mezzo Sasha Cooke will join the Lincoln Center instrumentalists in works by Chausson, Bolcom, Mahler and Brahms.
 
In July, Hope takes a few days off from his duties as Mecklenburg’s artistic director to perform in three chamber programs at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. The first, on July 22, is entitled “Theresienstadt Hommage” and focuses on Jewish composers killed at the Terezin concentration camp. On July 24, Gábor Takács-Nagy will lead Hope and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in works by Schulhoff, Bruch, and Schubert, and on July 25, Hope will perform with soloists such as violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violist Yuri Bashmet and clarinetist Martin Fröst in chamber works by Weber and Taneyev. 
 
 
 
Daniel Hope: Selected Summer 2012 Appearances
 
June 14: Schwerin, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Carnegie Hall Project
Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, Op 43
Tansman: Septet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet, Bassoon, Viola, and Cello
Bartók: Contrast for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, Sz 111
Messiaen: “Praise to the Eternity of Jesus” from Quartet for the End of Time
Schumann: Piano quartet in E-flat, Op 47
Members of Ensemble ACJW
 
June 15: Greifswald, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Carnegie Hall Project
P. Haas: Study for String Orchestra
E. Schulhoff: Double Concerto for Flute and Piano, with Two Horns and String Orchestra, Op. 63
G. Klein: String Trio, arranged for String Orchestra
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies
Members of Ensemble ACJW; Concertino Ensemble Rostock / Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

June 21: Echternach, Luxembourg
Echternach Festival
Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto in D minor
Soloists Europeens Luxembourg
 
June 23: Maulbronn, Germany
Kloster Maulbronn
Works by Bach and Vivaldi
L’arte del mondo
 
July 4: Colmar, France
Festival de Musique Classique, Église St. Matthieu
Works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Vivaldi
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester / Wolfram Christ
 
July 8: Aspen, CO
Aspen Festival, Benedict Music Tent
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Aspen Festival Orchestra / Thomas Sondergard
 
July 10: Aspen, CO
Aspen Festival, Harris Concert Hall
Recital
Ravel: Violin Sonata, op. posth.
Walton: Violin Sonata
Schulhoff: Violin Sonata No. 2
Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F major
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
 
July 12: Hollywood, CA
Hollywood Bowl
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Leonard Slatkin
 
July 19: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Forum am Schlosspark
Dvorák: Romance
MIAGI Youth Orchestra / Christian Muthspiel
 
July 22: Verbier, Switzerland
Verbier Festival
Chamber Concert
“Theresienstadt Hommage”: Works by Jewish composers from the Terezin concentration camp
Daniel Hope, Nancy Wu, violin; Lars Anders Tomter, Mathieu Herzog, viola; Gautier Capuçon, Raphaël Merlin, Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello; Martin Fröst, clarinet; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Sylvia Schwartz, soprano; Gábor Bretz, baritone; Alexandre Tharaud, piano
 
July 24: Verbier, Switzerland
Verbier Festival
Erwin Schulhoff: Double Concerto for Flute (Violin), Piano, Two Horns and String Orchestra, WV 89
Bruch: Double Concerto for Violin, Viola  and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88
Schubert: Rondo in A major, D 438; String Quartet in D minor, D 810 (“Death and the Maiden,” arr. G. Mahler)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Gábor Takács-Nagy
Daniel Hope, Renaud Capuçon, violin; Lawrence Power, viola; Gautier Capuçon, cello; Simone Dinnerstein, piano
 
 
July 25: Verbier, Switzerland
Verbier Festival
Chamber Concert
Von Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B-flat, Op. 34
Taneyev: Quintet for piano and strings in G minor, Op. 30
Daniel Hope, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Kirill Troussov, Giovanni Guzzo, violin; Yuri Bashmet, David Aaron Carpenter, viola; Narek Hakhnazaryan, Mischa Maisky, cello; Martin Fröst, clarinet; Denis Matsuev, piano
 
July 27: Berlin, Germany
Young Euro Classic Festival, Konzerthaus
Dvorák: Romance
MIAGI Youth Orchestra / Christian Muthspiel
 
July 28 & 29: Elmshorn, Germany
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Reithalle
Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto in D minor
Solistes Européens Luxembourg
 
August 8: Rühn, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Savannah Project
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano,
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Schubert: Octet in F, Op. posth. 166 D 803
Musicians from the Savannah Music Festival
Daniel Hope, Benjamin Nabarro, violin; Philip Dukes, viola; Patrick Messina, clarinet; Timothy Jones, horn; Keith Robinson, cello; Philippe Hanon, bassoon; Stéphane Logerot, bass
 
August 9: Bad Doberan, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Savannah Project
R. Strauss: String Sextet from the opera Capriccio, Op. 85
Dvorák: String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97 (“American”)
Beethoven: Septet in E-flat, Op. 20 for Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass
Musicians from the Savannah Music Festival
Daniel Hope, Benjamin Nabarro, violin; Philip Dukes, Carla-Maria Roddrigues, viola; Patrick Messina, clarinet; Timothy Jones, horn; Josephine Knight, Keith Robinson, cello; Philippe Hanon, bassoon; Stéphane Logerot, bass
 
August 10: Kotelow, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Savannah Project
Dvorák: Terzetto in C major for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74
Dvorák: String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97 (“American”)
E. Mayer: Nocturne in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 48
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Musicians from the Savannah Music Festival
Daniel Hope, Benjamin Nabarro, violin; Philip Dukes, viola; Josephine Knight, cello; Sebastian Knauer, piano
 
August 12: Stolpe bei Anklam, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Bruch: Double Concerto
Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie / Michael Sanderling
Daniel Hope, violin; Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
 
August 30: Bützow, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Lincoln Center Project
E. Dohnányi: Serenade in C for String Trio, Op. 10
Menotti: Suite for Two Cellos and Piano
Arenski: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artists:
Daniel Hope, Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Li-Wei Qin, David Finckel, cello, Wu Han, piano
 
September 1: Augsburg, Germany
Deutsches Mozartfest Augsburg, St. Ulrich
Recital
Works by Brahms, C. Schumann, Mendelssohn, Jochim and Grieg
Sebastian Knauer, piano
 
September 5: Wissembourg, France
Festival de Musique de Wissembourg
Works by Messiaen and Bartók
Daniel Hope and Friends
 
September 8: Ulrichshusen, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Recital
Brahms: Violin Sonata no. 1
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no. 1
Daniel Hope, violin; Li-Wei Quin, cello; Jonathan Gilad, piano
 
September 9: Neubrandenburg, Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1
NDR Radiophilharmonie / Lionel Bringuier
 
September 13: Bonn, Germany
Beethovenfest Bonn
Recital
Works by Brahms, C. Schumann, Beethoven, Joachim and Mendelssohn
Sebastian Knauer, piano
 
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