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20-699: After touring together in 2007, as the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's Soul Stew Revival, the couple merged their respective groups to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010. Their first concert was on April 1, 2010, at the Savannah Music Festival . The first Tedeschi Trucks Band album, Revelator , was released on June 7, 2011. The album peaked at No. 92 on the Canadian Albums Chart , No. 164 in

40-559: A weekly radio series, recordings, and other online and digital initiatives. SMF stages original, one-time only productions, premieres and double-bills, including many commissioned works. SMF has made collaboration a priority and works with organizations including the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Telfair Museums, Savannah Tour of Homes & Gardens, Lucas Theatre for

60-594: 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. In the UK Hope was educated at Highgate School and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d'Abernon . In 2011 he was appointed visiting professor in violin by

80-748: The Royal Academy of Music , where he had studied under Zakhar Bron and gained a diploma (DipRAM) and a fellowship (FRAM). Hope became the violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio in 2002. His burgeoning career led to his decision to leave the Beaux Arts Trio, which in turn led to the decision to disband the ensemble. The Beaux Arts Trio, with Hope as the final violinist in the history of the ensemble, gave its final concerts in August 2008. Hope has served as an associate artistic director of

100-555: The Savannah Music Festival . In April 2015 he was named the new music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , effective in 2016. On 16 March 2018, at the conclusion of a joint performance by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and New Century Chamber Orchestra at which he served as concertmaster, Hope was announced as the latter ensemble's new music and artistic director. In 2017 he was awarded

120-766: The UK Albums Chart and won a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album . Their second album, Everybody's Talkin' , was recorded live and released in May 2012. In 2013, the band was nominated for the Blues Music Awards and released their third album, Made Up Mind . The band gave a Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen tribute concert at the 2015 Lockn' Festival featuring alumni musicians from that album including Leon Russell, Claudia Lennear and Dave Mason. The band's first three albums were published by Sony Masterworks , but their 2016 album, Let Me Get By ,

140-475: The ATC was dedicated to establishing the value and range of styles represented by composers of 19th and 20th century American art songs and popular music. Under the passionate leadership of Executive Director Elizabeth Stewart, Savannah OnStage continued to grow and it became a favorite event in the city's early springtime calendar. In 2002, the board of directors hired Rob Gibson as Executive and Artistic Director and

160-753: The Arts, Historic Savannah Foundation/Davenport House Museum, The Creative Coast, Georgia Historical Society , Savannah Stopover Festival, and a variety of the City's houses of worship including Temple Mickve Israel, Christ Church Episcopal, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and Trinity United Methodist Church. In 1989, the Savannah OnStage International Arts Festival was founded by a group of community leaders, fostered by

180-681: The Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his merits in the musical constitution of commemorative culture. Hope plays the 1737 Guarneri "ex- Lipinski " violin. Daniel Hope presented the 2013 documentary film The Secrets of the Violin , which explored the history of violin making from Amati , Stradivari and Guarneri to modern makers like Samuel Zygmuntowicz . Hope and Tamina Kallert  [ de ] were

200-723: The Hope@Home team travelled to San Francisco where Hope worked with the New Century Chamber Orchestra and other artists. Returning to Berlin, the series continued into December 2020. In December 2021 and 2022, special Christmas concerts were streamed on the ARTE Concert channel. Hope is in his second marriage to the painter Silvana Kaiser. The couple lived in Vienna and moved to Berlin in 2016. He holds Irish and German nationality. In 2020 Hope released

220-454: The Moon , a quadruple album featuring 24 original songs which was released in four parts throughout the year, beginning with I. Crescent on June 3, II. Ascension on July 1, III. The Fall on July 29 and IV. Farewell on August 26. The album was also released as a box containing all four parts on September 9. Former band members Touring musicians C. The album “Signs,” was released on

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240-479: The Savannah Chamber of Commerce, and selected Elizabeth Stewart and Stewart Gordon as its top administrators. Until 2002, the weeklong, multi-disciplinary arts festival brought a variety of performers to Savannah each year during a 10-day festival, which included the acclaimed weeklong American Traditions Competition (ATC). In contrast to many vocal competitions that focused on repertoire of European origin,

260-628: The cancellation of the 32nd SMF and was deferred to 2021. Since 2003, the Savannah Music Festival has grown a music education program. Daniel Hope Daniel Hope (born 17 August 1973 in Durban , South Africa) is a South African born classical violinist. 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

280-489: The city. With the easing of lockdown in the summer of 2020, it became possible to move the concerts out of Hope's home to other locations ("Hope@Home on Tour") before the series came to a temporary halt. In November, as social distancing tightened across Europe with the second wave of the pandemic, the series resumed in Hope's living-room, this time with a focus on young performers, as "Hope@Home Next Generation". In mid-November

300-571: The organization's name was changed to Savannah Music Festival (SMF). Gibson enlisted the talents of Associate Artistic Directors Daniel Hope and Marcus Roberts in 2003. He had seen Hope perform with the Beaux Arts Trio in NYC, and after a few conversations about Hope's own musical vision and varied artistic endeavors as a protege of Yehudi Menuhin , he was a natural fit for SMF programming. Gibson had worked with Roberts since 1989, and Roberts' virtuosity alongside his commitment to jazz education made him

320-538: The perfect choice to spearhead SMF's high school jazz band workshop and competition, Swing Central Jazz. Like Hope, Roberts has premiered many new works at SMF and performed with a wide variety of musicians, including his trio's work with Béla Fleck at SMF (2011) and a concerto for piano trio and orchestra that he performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on April 6, 2013 (co-commissioned by ASO and SMF). The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused

340-769: The presenters for the Eurovision Young Musicians 2016 in Cologne, Germany on 3 September 2016. 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, and earned an OPUS KLASSIK award, Sonderpreis der Jury für besondere Leistungen . The project began as house concerts filmed at his home in Berlin. Appearing with him were artists, often well known, who were also living in

360-485: The same day the keyboard player for the band, Kofi Burbridge, died. Savannah Music Festival The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) is the largest musical arts event in Georgia , featuring more than 100 productions over the 17-day festival each spring. The festival operates year-round to produce youth concerts, lectures, in-school touring programs, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, as well as

380-663: Was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic . Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN') was announced on May 7, 2021. The album is a one-time live recording of the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs performed in full with Trey Anastasio . Recorded on August 24, 2019, at the LOCKN' Festival in Arrington, VA, the album was released on July 16, 2021. On April 20, 2022, Tedeschi Trucks Band announced I Am

400-617: Was released on Fantasy Records . Produced by Trucks, the album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart. In 2017, Tedeschi Trucks Band released a full-length concert film and album recorded in Oakland, CA , Live from the Fox Oakland . The fourth studio album, Signs , was released on February 15, 2019, on Fantasy Records and Concord . On January 9, 2019, the band announced tour dates through August 2019. Signs

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