Dana Zemtsov

Dana Zemtsov is one of the most promising viola soloists of her generation. Dana regularly performs in concert halls such as the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, St. Petersburg Philharmonia, The Opera House in Tel Aviv,  and Carnegie Hall in New York. She has played chamber music with Janine Jansen, Giovanni Sollima, Martin Fröst, Anna Fedorova, Ilya Gringolts,  Boris Berezovsky, and many others. As a soloist, Dana has performed under  the baton of Leif Segerstam, Otto Tausk, Daniel Raiskin, Massimo Quarta,  Marco Parisotto, and Fabio Mechetti. Recent highlights include performances  of various viola concertos with the Bath Festival Orchestra at the Southbank Centre in London, Orchestre National de Cannes, and Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin. Dana is 1st Prize laureate of several competitions in Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, Germany, Portugal, and the Netherlands. In 2010 she was awarded the Dutch Young Musician of the Year. She represented The Netherlands at the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in Vienna. She has also been awarded the prestigious Kersjes Prize, granted every year to an outstanding young musician in the Netherlands. So far, Dana has released five critically acclaimed albums: ‘Enigma’ (solo, 2014), ‘Romantic Metamorphoses’ (with Cathelijne Noorland, 2015), ‘Essentia’ (with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Raiskin, 2018), ‘Silhouettes’ (with pianist Anna Fedorova, 2020), ‘Dutch Hidden Gems’ (2022), and ‘Fathers & Daughters’  (with Anna Fedorova, Borys Fedorov and Mikhail Zemtsov, 2023), all on the Channel Classics Records label.