Biography
Artistic Director
Gropius Ensemble
Daniel Cohen is:
The dynamic young Israeli Musician, Daniel Cohen is emerging on the international conducting scene. Having excelled at the violin he was invited to be member of Daniel Barenboim's 'West-Eastern Divan Orchestra' and performed as a Soloist with the Israel Philharmonic and many other orchestras. His switch to conducting has been met with immediate success.

In 2007, he completed his Postgraduate Conducting Studies as the Royal Academy of Music in London. Among his teachers were George Hurst, Colin Metters and Sir Colin Davies. In that same year, 2007, Daniel won first prize in the Admont International Conducting Competition in Austria and in 2008 has  won the first prize in the Aviv competition in Israel (the Yuri Ahronovitch Prize for Young Conductors). Recently Daniel received the 3rd prize at the Evgeney Svetlanov International Conducting Competition. 

In 2008, Daniel Cohen assisted Maestro Daniel Barenboim in the preparation  of Schoenberg's Symphonic Variations op. 31 with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. This summer Daniel will assist Maestro Barenboim with West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on Beethoven's 1st Symphony and Pierre Boulez's Derive II. Barenboim considers Cohen 'A young man of extraordinary musical intelligence and intellectual capacity'.

Cohen also assisted Yan Pascal Tortelier with the Royal Academy of Music's Symphony Orchestra and took part in the Orkney Conducting Course where he worked with such distinguished ensembles and conductors as the BBC Philharmonic, the Nash Ensemble, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Martyn Brabbins and Sian Edwards.

Tortelier Says of Daniel Cohen, 'I have been truly impressed with his conducting abilities and his handling of a new score. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has said, 'He is a splendid, gifted and experienced conductor, with real insights into how to make his inner vision of the score become audible reality'.

Daniel was chosen by the Lucerne Festival Academy to participate in the conducting master classes of Maestro Pierre Boulez with Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Daniel has conducted such Orchestras as the Israeli Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Kammerakademie Graz, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the King's College London Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.  This April Daniel will make his Tonhalle debut with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

During this season Daniel conduct Rossini's La Cenerentola with the Israeli Opera Studio and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and assisted at the Israel Opera House for Gounod's Faust. This June Daniel will make his Israeli Opera debut with Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.

Today Daniel in Chief Conductor of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, Collaborating with such artists as Nicola Benedetti,  Michael Collins and Alison Balsom. Daniel has been recently appointed Associate Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.  

Since 2004 Daniel is Artistic Director of the Gropius Ensemble. Ensemble specializes in creating new artistic genres that draw on different disciplines of Art, such as Music, Theater, and Dance.  A fruitful collaboration was soon formed with the multitalented actor Itay Tiran, who is now the Ensemble leading actor.

Since 2004 Daniel has been Music Director of the Eden Sinfonia in London. With this orchestra Daniel is to make his Queen Elizabeth Hall conducting début. . In April 2010 Daniel was appointed associate conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

Daniel was supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation throughout his studies.

The Gropius Ensemble
Israel's Interdisciplinary Ensemble
Music Director - Daniel Cohen







Named after the pioneering modernist architect and founder of Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, and inspired by his theories and creations, the Gropius Ensemble was founded by some of Israel's top young musicians, the Ensemble specializes in creating new artistic genres that draw on different disciplines of Art, such as Music, Theater, and Dance. 

The Gropius Ensemble was founded by its artistic director, Daniel Cohen, who gathered a very fine group of young artists, dedicated to finding a new language for the stage. A fruitful collaboration was soon formed with the multitalented actor Itay Tiran, who is now the Ensemble leading actor.

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The Gropius Ensemble - Opening concert of the
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival

Matan Porat: 'Shooting an Elephant' - world premiere!
Libretto: Matan Porat and Daniel Cohen after George Orwell.

'Shooting an Elephant' is PART II of Matan Porat's Trilogy
of musical dramas written for the Gropius Ensemble. 

Itay Tiran, Actor
The Gropius Ensemble
Daniel Cohen, Conductor
31/08/2010YMCA, Jerusalemfull details>


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Jersey Chamber Orchestra
Chief Conductor - Daniel Cohen
The Jersey Chamber Orchestra presents a concert series which includes such bright young stars as Nichola Benedetti, Alison Balsom and Elizabeth Watts along side some of the greatest names on the international stage like Lawrence Power, Carlos Bonell and Michael Collins.

Located in the beautiful island of Jersey (Channel Islands, UK), the Orchestra also promotes and supports the development of music in Jersey by organizing cultural events of the highest caliber while working together with other deserving Jersey charities.

Combined with each event will be opportunities for Jersey's children and the disadvantaged to be inspired and educated by some of the best musicians in the world working hand in hand with the best of Jersey. All the proceeds of each event go to charity.




Jersey Chamber Orchestra's Next concert:

Jersey Independence Festival

Galla concert with Nichola Benedetti, Krzysztof Chorzelski, and the Sitkovetsky trio

Daniel Cohen, Conductor

Saturday16/05/200920:00 Jersey Opera House



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Eden Sinfonia, London 
Music Director - Daniel Cohen
The Eden Sinfonia is an exciting and diverse orchestra made up of the finest young professional players in London.

The Orchestra's repertoire extends from the Baroque to the 21st century and from the Chamber to the Symphonic. One of the aims of the Eden Sinfonia is to introduce the British audience to Israeli and Middle-Eastern classical music. The Eden Sinfonia is responsible for British premieres and world premieres of piece by young and established composers alike.

The Eden Sinfonia was founded by Daniel Cohen in 2004. It has since performed in such prestigious venues as St. Martin-in-the-fields, St, James's Piccadilly and the Queen Elizabeth Hall.


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Eden Sinfonia's Opera Gala!
Jersey Liberation Festival

The Program will include Britten's Les Illuminations
as well as arias by Handel, Gluck, Ben Haim and Mozart.


Eden Sinfonia
Elizabeth Watts, Soprano
Daniel Cohen, Conductor

09/05/2010Jersey Opera House19:30



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Music Director
Eden Sinfonia, London
Cheif Conductor
Jersey Chamber Orchestra

Associate Conductor
Israel Chamber Orchestra

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