Featuring Performance Guest, Cellist, Singer, Songwriter, Chamber Musician, Hope Easton; and Interview Guest, Brand Architect, Impact CEO, Intuitive Strategy Advisor to Executives and Fortune 500 Companies, Josh Jost, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 806
Interview Guest: JOSH JOST; and Performance Guest: HOPE EASTON
HOPE EASTON
Hope Easton Cellist Singer-Songwriter, Contractor: Education: Cleveland Institute of Music, Preparatory Dept
Hope Easton is a multifaceted musician. Classically trained on the cello, she has opened her horizons to improvising, writing and singing while playing the cello. She enjoys writing songs on the guitar and piano as well. Hope has performed, toured and recorded with many artists, including Adele, Reba McEntire, 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 Sheila Nicholls. Hope has recorded and performed on American Idol, The Voice, The Late Show, studio sessions as well as a few National Commercials.
In the classical world she has performed for and with the legendary, Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph Eschenbach, Joshua Bell and Cho-Liang Lin. She was spotlighted ( performing solo) as a teenager on the PBS program Musical Encounters which won many awards. She won many competitions and soloed with orchestras as a teenager.
Hope also participated in many of the big music festivals: Norfolk Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Banff, Sandor Vegh Festival ( U.K.), Taos Music Festival and Meadowmount School of Music. She graduated with distinction in Cello Performance from New England Conservatory and followed there with a Fulbright Scholarship to the U.K.
Hope has recorded for numerous composers for TV and film including David Majzlin, Robert ToTeras (Critical Hit), Andy Grush: The Newtown Brothers (Magic Man, she played the whole score; Home Depot commercial, The Haunting of Hill House- Solo, Christopher Lockett (Sci- Fi), Christopher Cano, Shane Prather and many others.
Hope also performs often in chamber music settings, as well she has her own group, Sonos Chamber Players who perform in and around Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego for both private and corporate events, fundraisers as well as on TV. . SonosChamberPlayers.com
Hope continues to perform classical concerts in the Los Angeles area.
She has performed often with community orchestras all around the Los Angeles area, including The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Westside Orchestra Downey Symphony, Jazz Symphonic Orch, Culver City Orch, African American Orchestra and Torrance Symphony. She performs with many singers as a soloist, including some of the most prominent Cantorʼs in Los Angeles.
Hope has a large library of music videos on Youtube/Hope Easton from Classical Chamber Music ( and solos) to Jazz, Pop, Electric instruments and of course her own music videos.
Teachers: Nella Hunkins, Stephen Geber, Allan Harris
New England Conservatory Graduate: David Wells
Fulbright Scholar U.K. Ralph Kirschbaum San Francisco Conservatory , Irene Sharp
Find and Follow Hope Easton at: www.Hopeeaston.com