Eleanor
Hope

After completing her studies in languages and business management in London, Eleanor Hope worked in advertising, marketing, and public relations. In 1975, she became Yehudi Menuhin’s personal assistant and soon took over his general management. By 1980, she was appointed the artistic administrator of his festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, a position she held until he retired as director in 1996.

Eleanor served as the managing director of Anglo-Swiss Artists in London for over ten years, representing more than 100 artists and orchestras. She has also been the artistic director of the Bath Mozartfest in England, served on the advisory boards of the Schleswig-Holstein and Vilnius festivals, and was the chairman of the Yehudi Menuhin Memorial Trust in 1999. Additionally, she took on the artistic direction of the Menuhin Festival for three years.

At IMG Artists, her responsibilities included programming classical music, entertainment, and dance subscriptions for Frankfurt’s Jahrhunderthalle, as well as collaborating on feasibility studies for the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Polish National Music Forum in Wroclaw.

Having lived in Austria for over 20 years, Eleanor lectures on art career management and has served as a judge for several prestigious competitions, including the International Johannes Brahms Competition, the Austrian inter-university music competition Gradus ad Parnassum, the Vienna Music University’s “Rising Stars,” the Zhuhai International Mozart Violin Competition, the Ricci Competition at Mozarteum University, the Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize, and most recently, the Classic Piano Competition in Dubai. 

She spent five years on the Advisory Council of Salzburg Mozarteum University, is a former vice-president of the European Association of Artists’ Agents, and currently serves as a director at Interclassica Music Management, representing violinists Vadim Repin, Ziyu He, and Jan Mráček, as well as conductors James Judd, Carlo Tenan, and Thomas Rösner.