Esther Hoppe becomes Artistic Director of Camerata Zürich
Camerata Zürich is appointing Swiss violinist Esther Hoppe as Artistic Director from the 2025/26 season. She will take over from Igor Karsko as first violinist.
Esther Hoppe has made a name for herself internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. After studying in Basel, Philadelphia, London and Zurich, she won first prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2002. As a violinist in the Tecchler Trio, she has won numerous prizes, including the German Music Competition, the Prix Credit Suisse and first prize at the ARD Competition in Munich.
From 2009 to 2013, she was also first concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra. In this role, she led the ensemble several times from the first desk, performing music from the Baroque to modern times. Esther Hoppe currently teaches as a professor of violin at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She plays the "De Ahna" Stradivarius, built in 1722.
The Camerata Zürich was founded in 1957 by the Swiss conductor Räto Tschupp. Following Räto Tschupp, Marc Kissóczy and Thomas Demenga, Igor Karsko has been the orchestra's artistic director since the 20/21 season. In addition to new music, the orchestra's repertoire focuses on rarely performed and often rediscovered works from the Classical and Romantic periods.
