Esther Hoppe

Violinist Esther Hoppe is noted equally as a soloist, chamber music player, and educator. Her career was launched when she won first prize at the International Mozart Violin Competition in Salzburg, Austria, in 2002. Hoppe was born in Zug, Switzerland, on March 4, 1978. She studied at the Music Academy of Basel with Thomas Füri and then went on to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where her principal teachers were Robert Mann and Ida Kavafian. She did further work in London at the Guildhall School of Music with Yfrah Neaman and in Zurich with Nora Chastain. Hoppe...