Hope Cramsie

Hope Cramsie is a classical guitarist and theorbo player based in London. Her performances showcase a diverse repertoire ranging from renditions of Renaissance music to the premiering of brand new works, and highlight the lyricism and sensitivity of her instrument.

Hope has given solo recitals at Buxton International Festival and St James Piccadilly, and has featured regularly in the International Guitar Foundation’s concert series, including performances at Kings Place during the London Guitar Festival in 2021. Other venues she has performed at include the National Portrait Gallery, Brussels Guitar Laboratory Festival, Klara Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, as well as featuring regularly in the RCM’s recital series and concerts including a recent appearance at the RCM String Showcase held at Wigmore Hall in 2025.

As a theorbo player she has performed at the Kings Gallery Buckingham Palace and at the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park in Hampshire with the RCM Historical Performance Consort. Her interest in mix media performance lead to a collaboration with artist Ed Rollit which featured in his solo exhibition Where We Once Played held at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in 2025.

Hope graduated from the undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music, part of which included an Erasmus exchange at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Jesper Sivebæk. Afterwards she completed her masters at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Antigoni Goni (guitar) and Xavier Diaz Latorre (theorbo), before returning to the RCM for her Artist Diploma where she studied guitar with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell, and theorbo with Jakob Lindberg, supported by the Elmley Foundation, and as an RCM Ian Evans Lombe scholar, Help Musicians Postgraduate Award holder and Julian Bream Trust Scholar.

In 2021, Hope was awarded First Prize at Leicester Music Festival’s Advanced Guitar Competition. She is also a Young Artist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians after receiving First Prize at the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award in 2023.

Also an active chamber musician, Hope is one half in the newly formed Vona Guitar Duo, an ensemble championing new music by female composers, and is a member of the National Youth Guitar Fellowship Ensemble.

She is currently based in London where she also works as a private guitar tutor.