Violins of Hope is an artistic and educational project composed of instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. Violins in the collection were played in the concentration camps and ghettos, providing a source of comfort for some and a means of survival for others. These instruments have been restored by Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, who bring them to communities around the world to spread a message of hope, tolerance, and remembrance. 

Niv is the only musician to have one of the Violin of Hope on long-term loan, and Niv Ashkenazi: Violins of Hope is the first solo album recorded on one of these instruments, available now from Albany Records

This year, as the Artist in Residence for the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, Niv is visiting up to 40 schools in the San Fernando Valley to do workshops with the Violin of Hope he has on loan.

ABC7 and Spectrum News both reported on the ongoing project.