Biography
Cellist Hope Easton, is a multifaceted musician.
New song is on its way.... September, crossing my fingers.
The HOPE2020 has been out on all platforms and all the songs ( singles) are available as well. Most recent added singles, War of Words and Logic & Time (in Video form too)
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Hope is Classically trained first in Cleveland CIM then to Boston NEC and on to a Fulbright Scholarship with Ralph Kirschbaum in the UK She also spent some time at SF Conservatory. She soloed with Orchestras as a teenager and won many awards. She performed in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center at the age of 15 with the Schneider Seminar and went to all the major music camps, Aspen, Meadowmount, Banff, Taos, Norfolk and Yellow Barn.
Hope branched out when she toured and started performing with an English pop singer, Shelia Nicholls. Since then she has been writing and singing her own music. She formed a band Hope & The Russians and they are performing in the LA area.
Hope performs solo often with the electric cello or acoustic in various events and venues throughout the US.
Hope created a chamber music group Sonos Chamber Players.
( SonosChamberPlayers.com) They perform many corporate gigs, private events as well as public venues.Hope has been involved with projects finding herself and her quartet performing for celebrities ( Roy Hibbert, Robert Herjavec, Rupert Murdoch and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Larry King). They performed twice on the soap opera Bold and the Beautiful.
The group performs any musical combination in the repertoire of Classical, Jazz and Pop music. Not to mention Electric instruments and backing tracks. Solo electric cello by all means.
Her television appearances include , The Voice, American Idol, The Tonight Show, Celebrity Rehab, 90210, Microsoft commercial w/Common, T-Mobile Nationl Commerical, Anheusur -Busch Super Bowl Commercial, Polaroid National Commercial, The Bold and the Beautiful (soap series), PBS Musical
Encounters, and Morning Show in Cleveland, where she is from.
She has performed, toured and recorded with many artists, including Adele, One Republic, Sheryl Crow, XAmbassadors, Richard Marx, Kenny Loggins, Eric Benet, Garth Brooks, Don Henley (The Eagles), Al Stewart, Lawrence Juber of The Wings, Il Volo, Leroy Sanchez,Brandi Carlile,Marco Antonio Solis, Frank Ocean, Alex Band from The Calling, Nick Palance, and toured North America(2x) with Hollywood artist SheilaNicholls.
In the classical world she has performed for and with the legendary, Janos Starker, Kyung Wa Chung, Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, THe Schneiders, Joshua Bell and Cho-Liang Lin. She was spotlighted as a teenager on the PBS program Musical
Encounters which won many awards. She was a Presidential Scholar winner and 17 Magazine Competition top 3 cellists.
She continues to perform Classical concerts in the Los Angeles area.
Hope has recorded in the studios for numerous composers for tv and film including and as a soloist for David Majzlin, Robert ToTeras (Critical Hit), Andy Grush, The Newton Brothers (Magic Man, Home Depot commercial, The Haunting of Hill House- (Solo), Christopher Lockett (Sci-Fi), Christopher Cano and many many others.
Hope also performs in community orchestras all around the Los Angeles area, including Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Downey Symphony, Jazz Symphonic Orch, Culver City Orch, and Torrance Symphony. She records at all the studios, Warner Brothers, Sony. Sonic Fuel, The Village, East West, and records as a soloist for many composers and singers. IG is a good way to find out what shes up to, whether it be in the garden, or at the Hollywood Bowl, she will be bringing the art of the musician directly to you.