About Hope

Composer-tubist Hope Salmonson is queering her music through a cross-genre style and a burning desire to help performers represent themselves. With a focus on process over product, Hope seeks to ensure that every voice in the room is valued, on and off the stage. Hope is always chasing opportunities to connect with others through music, valuing community first and foremost.

Hope most prefers to share a bond with the ensembles and musicians she works with, including the Burning BRASs Band, musica intima, Diversify the Stand, and the Glass Winds Ensemble, as well as a wide array of individual performers. Having participated in programs such as novum musica, (Art) Song Lab, the Wildflower Composers Festival and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, she takes care to make the compositional process a collaborative experience.

Hope holds a BMus from Mount Allison University and a MMus in Composition from the University of British Columbia. Her teachers have included Kevin Morse, T. Patrick Carrabré, Jennifer Butler, Keith Hamel and Dorothy Chang, and she continues to learn from the students she teaches and works with. Now, she’s back in her hometown of Kjipuktuk (Halifax), sharing in music with friends new and old while figuring out where her next journey will take her.