Daniel Cohen is a conductor and violinist (b. Israel 1984).
Daniel Cohen is Music Director of the Eden Sinfonia, Artistic Director of the Gropius Ensemble, Israel's interdisciplinary Group and chief conductor of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
In 2007, Daniel completed his Postgraduate Conducting Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Among his teachers were George Hurst, Colin Metters and Sir Colin Davis. In that same year, 2007, Daniel won the first prize in the Admont International Conducting Competition in Austria and in 2008 has just won the first prize in the Aviv Competition in Israel (the Yuri Aharonowich Prize).
In 2008, Cohen collaborated with Daniel Barenboim in the preparation of Arnold Schoenberg's Symphonic Variations op 31 with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Cohen was also studied with Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival Academy.
Since his debut at the age of 19 Daniel have conducted such orchestras as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Graz, the King's College London Symphony Orchestra, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the Ashover Festival Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
As a violinist, Daniel has performed as a soloist with various orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, led the Tel-Aviv Soloists and is a member of Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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“A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child’s emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum’s richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)