Biography

Hope Cramsie is a versatile classical guitarist based in London. Her performances showcase a diverse repertoire ranging from renditions of Renaissance music to the premiering of brand new works, and highlight the lyricism and sensitivity of her instrument.

Fast establishing herself as an up and coming performer, Hope has featured regularly in the International Guitar Foundation’s Young Artist Platform concert series, which included a performance at Kings Place during the London Guitar Festival in 2021. She has performed at numerous concert venues including the National Portrait Gallery, Brussels Guitar Laboratory Festival, Klara Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, as well as appearing regularly in the RCM’s recital series and concerts.

As an active chamber musician, Hope is one half in the newly formed Vona Guitar Duo, an ensemble championing new music by female composers, and is a member of NYGE’s flagship Fellowship Ensemble.

In 2021, Hope was awarded First Prize at Leicester Music Festival’s Advanced Guitar Competition. She is also a Young Artist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians after receiving First Prize at the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award in 2023.

After graduating from the undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours, part of which included an Erasmus exchange at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Jesper Sivebæk, Hope completed her masters with Distinction at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Antigoni Goni and Xavier Diaz Latorre.

Hope is now pursuing an Artist Diploma in guitar at the RCM with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell and theorbo with Jakob Lindberg, supported by the Elmley Foundation, and as an RCM Ian Evans Lombe scholar, Help Musicians Postgraduate Award holder and Julian Bream Trust Scholar.

Upcoming highlights this season include the Kings Gallery at Buckingham Palace with the RCM Consort, and a solo recital at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room.

Award: Ivor Mairants Guitar Award 2023

Page updated: 26 November 2024

Photo credit: Cedric Honings