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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“Short is the glory of the blushing rose,
The hue which thou so carefully dost nourish,
Yet which at length thou must be forced to lose.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“What is most original in a man’s nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn’t have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)