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Hope Csutorosstudied classical violin from the age of ten & attended Ivanhoe Girls Grammar school on a scholarship for 2 years before transferring to the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary school. She received a scholarship to study at the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary where she also took part in the International Bartok Seminar and the Kodaly Institute Festival of Music. On returning to Australia, she attended the Victorian College of the Arts to study Jazz and improvisation. She has toured extensively in Europe, the UK, Singapore and Japan with a variety of groups.
Hope is a founding member (1989-2018) of ARIA award winning pop band My Friend The Chocolate Cake (see links for details) and also currently works as lead violinist with virtuosic gypsy band the Stiletto Sisters who have been playing together for over 20 years. They perform regularly at the Melbourne Recital Centre and performed in Europe at the Prague Festival of Jewish Music and Culture 2009, the prestigious Four Winds Festival in Bermagui, as well as performances and recordings at the Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and throughout regional Victoria - including sell-out performances at the Port Fairy Spring Festival. |
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Other performing credits include projects as diverse as the State Orchestra of Victoria, The Phantom of The Opera, Circus Oz, the David Chesworth Ensemble, and DeFlocked String quartet. Hope has worked as a recording session artist in film scores such as "Till Human Voices Wake Us" and Rolf de Heer’s “Dr. Plonk”, and with artists such as Midnight Oil, Mark Seymour, The Badloves, The Go-Betweens, The Underground Lovers, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway. She has also been active as a composer and improviser for dance/acrobatic companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Tasdance and Company Theatre Physical. Hope also co-conceived, composed and performed in an original mobile street theatre performance art work called Magic Bike with Darren Steffen - It's inaugural season at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2001. Hope has taught violin and improvisation at tertiary level at the Victorian College of the Arts, and taught violin, piano and musicianship both privately and at local primary schools. She has worked with teens at Ardoch School introducing violin and electronics to small groups (1999), and did art and music technology workshops with disadvantaged primary school kids in South Melbourne (2000). |