Dana Zemtsov was born in 1992 in Mexico City, was 5 years old when she received her first music lessons from her parents, viola players Mikhail Zemtsov and Julia Dinerstein. Now she studies in the Maastricht Music Academy with the famous viola virtuoso Michael Kugel.
Competitions and prizes
Dana has won several prizes at different competitions throughout Europe including Luxemburg, Italy, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Scotland, France and The Netherlands.
Dana won the first prizes at the Princess Christina Competition and in 2009, the first prize at the Competition of the Young Music Talent Foundation in The Netherlands.She was also winner of the Evening of the Young Musician of the NPS (The Dutch Nationel Television) in April 2010, where she performed with Holland Symfonia conducted by Otto Tausk. With the title of 'Young Dutch Musican of the Year 2010' she represented The Netherlands at the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in Vienna.
Performances
Dana has given a large number of concerts all over Europe, USA, Russia, and Latin-America. She has performed on several stages in The Netherlands, amongst others at the Doelen in Rotterdam,the Philharmonie in Haarlem, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Vereeniging in Nijmegen, the Dr. Anton Philips Hall and Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.
She has collaborated with musicians such as Ilia Gringolts, Boris Berezovsky, Janine Jansen, Martin Frost .
Dana performed as a soloist with the Sweelinck Orchestra in Amsterdam, F. Busoni Chamber Orchestra (Italy), Holland Symfonia, the Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Rotterdam among other ochestras.
Tours
In 2006 Dana was invited by the Princess Christina Competition and the local Dutch Embassy to perform with other laureates in Denmark, The Netherlands and in Peru. In may 2012 Dana participated in a tour which took her through several states and halls of the USA including Carnegie Hall in New York.
In the summer of 2010 Dana participated in the Stars of Tomorrow tour in Germany, together with young prizewinners from other European countries. She performed on festivals in Egersynd Chambermusic Festival (Norway),Esslingen, Sangerhausen and Passau (Germany) and Cividale del Friuli (Italy), at the Delft Chamber Music Festival, the Grachten Festival, the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht and during the Three Day Music Festival The Hague.