Michael Hope is a UK-born composer, performer and producer based in Denmark, whose output encompasses, among other things, instrumental, orchestral, performative, installation, electronic, video, and site-specific works, often situated within the domains of conceptual art and experimental theatre. His works challenge traditional western art music conceptions of craft, virtuosity, and genius, drawing on the acceleration of waste, cliché, and precariousness endemic to the production and consumption of contemporary society and culture, whilst simultaneously misusing media, technology, and data in an audacious embrace of uncertainty and contradiction.

After completing his undergraduate studies in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music on the prestigious Joint Course with the University of Manchester in 2017, and having previously attended the Purcell School for Young Musicians, Michael went on to complete his Master’s degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in 2020. He is a recent graduate of the Advanced Post-Graduate Soloist class at the Royal Conservatoire in Copenhagen. As both a composer, performer and producer he has been commissioned by festivals, groups and platforms such as Klang Festival, SPOR Festival, MINU Festival, UNM (Ung Nordisk Musik), AUT (Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere), Radikal jung, Ensemble Modern, Members of Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble K!ART, Esbjerg Ensemble, and Aarhus Sinfonietta. He is co-founder, co-director and performer with the composer performer ensemble Current Resonance, and in 2020 became a Britten-Pears Young Artist.

Selected works: Failure Means a Drowning Death for piano and 12 stage hands (2016), “They Rolled and Rolled like the Sea” for alto saxophone, percussion, piano and orchestra (2017), This Girl Will Dream of Sleep, installation for electronics and “scene” (2017–19), Six videos of alt-right propaganda but each time a millennial gets offended the distortion increases by 4% for amplified clarinet, trombone, drum kit, electric piano, cello, live electronics and video (2018–19), Symphonification: Version 1 (Esbjerg Edition) for changeable instrumentation(2019), Regnklang: A Survey of Rain Sounds for guitar, alto saxophone, playback and live “rain” (2019), Born/Again for piano, video and playback (2019), Johann You for chamber orchestra (2019–20), klang//farben// melodie for diffused audio and video (2020), helpful smAAaAck/ comBbiNnEedD sSlurp for two pairs of performers and objects (2018–21), *danceD for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, cello, two performers, playback, lights and slide projector (2020–21), maeLstroM for conductor and playback (2022), NICE FACEfor performer, playback and slideshow (2022), À la carte for four performers, playback, lights and staging (2022–23), Classified for voice and playback (2023), Si vous me regardez… for performer, ensemble and electronics (2023), (I Love You) For Instrumental Reasons for speaker, flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano/celesta, violin, cello, five performers, electronics, video, staging and audience (2023–24), Sketchbook for speaker, piano, e-guitar, cello, percussion, diffused audio and video and staging (2021–25).