Daniel Hope

Hope was born in Durban, South Africa, and is of Irish[1] and Jewish German descent, his maternal grandparents, formerly from Berlin, having escaped Nazism.

[3] When Hope was just six months old, his family moved from South Africa to London, because of his father's anti-apartheid views.

In 2011 he was appointed visiting professor in violin by the Royal Academy of Music, where he had studied under Zakhar Bron and gained a diploma (DipRAM) and a fellowship (FRAM).

Hope and Tamina Kallert [de] were the presenters for the Eurovision Young Musicians 2016 in Cologne, Germany on 3 September 2016.

[12] In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hope began a series of over 100 live concerts broadcast on Arte.

These broadcasts under the title "Hope@Home" reached an audience of millions,[13] and earned an OPUS KLASSIK award, Sonderpreis der Jury für besondere Leistungen.