H O P E D I M A R I A : B I O
Hope DiMaria is a musical theater violinist whose spirited and emotional approach to the violin has led her to work with Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winning musicians.While she is now based out of New York City, the city of Boston has been incredibly important to her journey, and a place she’ll always hold dear. Hope’s passion also extends to performing with folk singer/songwriters and recording film scores. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with concentrations in Violin Performance and Music Business. Hope spent the first half of her undergraduate career receiving classical training from The Boston Conservatory. Read more below.
Hope made her 54 Below debut (“Broadway’s Living Room”) in the Fall of 2024 with Emote: An Original Musical. Since then, she has returned to this iconic venue a number of times for shows like 54 Sings the West End and 54 Sings Animated Classics. She was honored to be selected for The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience: PIPPIN in May of 2025 alongside the legendary music director Seth Rudetsky and the next generation of Broadway pit musicians. Hope was also proud to be part of a history-making production of Jesus Christ Superstar in New York with Utopia Opera, which was noted to be a “…powerful and unforgettable theatrical experience” (BroadwayWorld). Most recently, she was the violinist in the Fall 2025 production of “Last Song on Earth” at The Tank NYC.
During her time in Boston, Hope made a name for herself in the musical theater scene there. In 2023, she performed in a production of City of Angels under the musical direction of acclaimed Broadway conductor/arranger Kevin Stites. She has enjoyed playing as concertmaster in various original musical premieres in Boston, including The American Siren and The Mountain and Her Mortals. Additionally, she performed as concertmaster for productions of Next to Normal, Into the Woods, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde,The Addams Family, Once Upon a Mattress, Frozen, and Once with various theater companies in Boston (most recently Boxcar Stage Company, and New Ground Theater Company). In 2022, Hope was chosen to play in the premiere of a number of new musical theater works at Powerstation Berklee NYC, collaborating with up and coming theater composers in the Berklee community.
Hope performed with the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra in various venues within the city, most notably Symphony Hall (home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Mechanic’s Hall, and Sander’s Theater at Harvard University. She has also performed on the stages of The Fenway Center, Boston Center for the Arts, The Strand Theater, The Dante Alighieri Society, and St. Cecilia’s Parish.
In 2022, Hope had the privilege of recording with Grammy winning film score legend Alan Silvestri, playing his Forrest Gump Suite and Captain America End Credits in the studio. Hope was honored to have been a soloist and concertmaster at an awards gala honoring The Roots bassist Mark Kelley (seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), and a number of other distinguished film scorers and performers in March of 2023. That night, she also performed a solo of the beloved jazz standard Misty accompanied by an orchestra for honoree and violinist Quinton Morris who was in the audience. This was inspired by Morris’ performance of this standard from his 2013 TED Talk. The previous year, she was Assistant Concertmaster at The Lenox, surprising distinguished Marvel composer Pinar Toprak with a medley of her own works at the same event.
Before her college career, Hope took part in numerous concerto festivals. In 2019, she received a perfect score on her performance of the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in b minor. She served as Principal Second Violinist of the Young Artists Division of the Symphoria Youth Orchestra in Syracuse. This orchestra was led by Maestro Christian Capocaccia, accomplished Italian conductor of orchestras and operas across the globe. In 2019, she was one of a select group of musicians chosen from around the world for the NYU Summer Strings Institute where she spent the summer performing in New York City and receiving one-on-one coaching from some of the most established musicians in NYC.
Hope has had extensive private studies with such notable artists as Christian Hebel (Broadway Concertmaster/Film & TV Session Musician/Barbara Streisand Solo Violinist), Jason Anick (Acclaimed Jazz Violinist), Saul Bitran (1st Violinist in Grammy Award winning Cuarteto Latinoamericano), Lynn Chang (Paganini Competition Winner/Yo-Yo Ma Collaborator), Edgar Tumajyan (Syracuse Symphony/ Solo and Chamber Musician), Meghan Todt Williams ( New York Pops, NYU Faculty), Stephanie Baer (Broadway Principal Violist/ Philip Glass Collaborator).
When Hope isn’t performing, she can be found working at Open Jar Studios where many of Broadway’s biggest productions rehearse. She also is passionate about music education, and is happy to serve as a faculty member of the String Department at Larchmont Music Academy.