Daniel Hope (born 17 August 1973 in Durban, South Africa) is a South African born classical violinist. Early life and education. Hope was born in Durban, South Africa, and is of Irish and Jewish German descent, his maternal grandparents, formerly from Berlin, having escaped Nazism. His father is the novelist Christopher Hope, FRSL, and his mother Eleanor Hope worked as an assistant to Yehudi Menuhin. When Hope was just six months old, his family moved from South Africa to London, because of his father's anti-apartheid views.
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