Born in Moscow in 1993 into a family of musicians, Daniel Kogan began studying the violin at the age of six with Marina Keselman. Graduated with distinction from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied under Maya Glezarova, and subsequently continued his training at Conservatorium Maastricht with Boris Belkin and in Moscow under Irina Svetlova. Since 2022 Daniel has been studying with Eduard Wulfson in Geneva, and since 2025 – also with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.
Scholarship holder and participant in concert programmes of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation, the New Names and Russian Performing Art foundations. Diploma winner of the International Karol Lipiński Violin Competition (Toruń, Poland, 2016) and the Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Moscow, 2017). Prize-winner at the Long–Thibaud–Crespin International Violin Competition (Paris, 2018; 6th prize), the Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition (Krasnoyarsk, 2023; 1st prize and three special prizes, including the Special Prize of Valery Gergiev) and the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2023; 3rd prize and Bronze Medal).
Has appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Grand, Small and Rachmaninoff halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the St Petersburg State Capella, the Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, Paris’ Salle Cortot and Maison de la Radio, Nancy’s Salle Poirel, Brussels’ Flagey, Siena’s Teatro dei Rinnovati, the Odessa Philharmonic Hall, Vilnius’ Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, Tallinn’s Estonia Concert Hall and Sendai’s Hitachi Systems Hall among many other venues. He has collaborated with ensembles including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra), the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Pavel Kogan, the State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya, the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, the National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. His collaborations include performances with Valery Gergiev, Mark Gorenstein, Hobart Earle and Dmitry Yablonsky, as well as with pianists Pavel Nersessian, Lucas Debargue, Lukas Geniušas and Philipp Kopachevsky, violinists Alena Baeva and Dmitry Sitkovetsky and cellist Henri Demarquette. Has taken part in festivals in the USA, Canada, France, Italy, Belgium, Estonia and Thailand, as well as in the Verbier Festival Academy and the Villars Music Academy (Switzerland).
In 2022 Daniel Kogan gave the Russian premiere of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Violin Sonata No. 7, and in 2024 he performed Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto. In 2025 the musician took part in the world premiere of Vladimir Gorlinsky’s Violin Concerto at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
Since 2019 he has served as Artistic Director of the creative association Pritiazhenie (Attraction), and he also teaches at the Interfaculty Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet at the Moscow Conservatory.
In 2021 the label Melodiya released his debut album featuring works by Schubert, Szymanowski and Schoenberg. In 2024 the label issued the CD Weddings and Funerals, initiated by Kogan, in which he plays sonatas by Debussy, Ravel and Franck together with cellist Maria Zaitseva and pianist Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev.
He performs on a 1737 Pietro Guarneri violin, kindly provided by AVS Group, and has also played instruments by Antonio Stradivari, Francesco Rugeri and Marco Nolli.
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