Thursday, 2/12/2026
at 8:00 PM


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With Daniel Hope, it’s never boring: Equipped with endless curiosity and a compass for all directions of the repertoire, he uses his musical brilliance as a means to take the audience on his journeys of discovery. For the South Africa-born, England-raised artist with German-Irish roots, the USA was an adventurous land even as a child: Here he visited his great-aunt and was impressed by an environment where everything was "big, generous, oversized." The music of America captivates the star violinist even today – his book about Hollywood composers bears witness to this as do his concert programs. “America is a fascinating place, historically, humanly, politically,” Hope said in an interview. “What I find so exciting about American music is that it has been mostly created by immigrants – essentially just like the country itself. European composers of classical music have undoubtedly influenced American composers, but true to the pioneering spirit of the country, the genre continues to develop in its own distinctive way.”

At the Albert guest performance, Daniel Hope presents the diversity of American music in the dynamic 20th century with his Zürich Chamber Orchestra. Of course, the great "classics" such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, whose music is almost emblematic of the vastness of his homeland, are not to be missed. A treasure trove is also the many Broadway successes of George Gershwin, the apostle of the synthesis of jazz and high culture. Alongside exiled composer Kurt Weill, the program also features two fundamentally different African American voices: composer Florence Price and the legendary bandleader Duke Ellington.

Program:
“America” - Music by Bernstein (West Side Story Suite), Gershwin (Summertime, among others), Copland, Weill, Price, Ellington

Daniel Hope, violin and moderation
Johannes von Ballestrem, piano
Joscho Stephan, guitar
Dimitri Monstein, drums
Zürcher Kammerorchester

With kind support from the friends and supporters of Albert Konzerte e.V.

EUR 93,- / 82,- / 68,- / 46,- / 34,- including fees

Daniel Hope | Photo © Erik Almas

Doors open at 18:45

Event data provided by: Reservix

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