Daniil Kogan was born in 1993 in Moscow into a family of musicians. He began studying the violin at the age of six with Marina Keselman. He graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire. He graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire (class of Maya Glezarova) and then studied at the Maastricht Conservatoire (class of Boris Belkin).
He was a scholarship recipient and participant in concert programmes of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Foundation, the New Names and Russian Performing Arts foundations. Diploma winner at the Karol Lipiński International Violin Competition. Diploma winner at the Karol Lipiński International Violin Competition (Torun, Poland, 2016) and the A. I. Yampolsky International Violin Competition. A. I. Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Moscow, 2017), laureate of the Marguerite Long International Violin Competition, Jacques Long International Violin Competition (Moscow, 2017) and the Marguerite Long International Violin Competition. Marguerite Long, Jacques Thibaud and Régine Crespin (Paris, 2018; VI prize). At the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition. At the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow - St Petersburg, 2023) he was awarded 3rd prize and a bronze medal.
He has performed at the Bolshoi, Maly and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Moscow International House of Music, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the State Academic Chapel of St Petersburg, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Salle Cortot and the Salle de la Corteau in Paris. He has performed at the Bolshoi Maly and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Moscow International House of Music, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the State Academic Chapel of St Petersburg, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, Salle Cortot and Maison de la Radio in Paris, Salle Poirel in Nancy, Salle Flagee in Brussels, Teatro Rinnovati in Siena, the Odessa Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Philharmonic (Vilnius), the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn, Hitachi-Systems Hall in Sendai (Japan) and other venues. He has played with many Russian and foreign ensembles, among them the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Е. Svetlanov, the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra under Pavel Kogan, the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Klaipeda Orchestra, the National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors Mark Gorenstein, Hobart Earle, Dmitry Yablonsky, pianists Pavel Nersesian, Luca Debargue, Lukas Geniushas, Philip Kopachevsky, violinists Alena Baeva, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, cellist Henri Demarquette and other musicians. He has participated in festivals in the USA, Canada, France, Italy, Estonia, Thailand, and in the activities of the Academy of Soloists of the Verbier Music Festival (Switzerland).
Since 2019 he has been artistic director of the creative association "Attraction". She also works as an assistant at the Department of Chamber Music
