Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen was born in 1984 in Netanya

Daniel Cohen was born in Netanya on February 18, 1984. His father was born in Baghdad, and his maternal grandfather was a violinist in Transylvania. He began on the piano at 6 and moved to the violin at 7.

At 14 he entered the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, where he studied violin with Haim Taub, and he later studied conducting with Yevgeny Zsirlin. He earned his bachelor's degree with honors at 19. In London he completed a postgraduate violin degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2004 and conducting studies there in 2007.

Cohen joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2003 as a first violinist and took part in its 2005 Ramallah concert. From 2008 to 2011 he was assistant conductor to Daniel Barenboim, and from 2009 to 2013 he assisted Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival Academy.

He was a Gustavo Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2015 to 2017. He has conducted at the Israeli Opera and orchestras in Israel and abroad. He led the Jersey Chamber Orchestra and founded the Gropius Ensemble with actor and director Itay Tiran.