Born in 1993 into a family of musicians, he began playing the violin at the age of six under the guidance of Marina Keselman, and since then the instrument has become an inseparable part of his life.

His studies at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, followed by training at the Conservatory itself in the class of Maya Glezarova, laid the foundation for his professional career. He later continued his education with Boris Belkin in Belgium and Italy, Irina Svetlova in Moscow, and since 2022 with Eduard Wulfson in Geneva. In 2025 he was chosen for a prestigious post-graduate program in the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he now continues his studies with Kolja Blacher.

Kogan is a laureate and prize-winner of several international competitions, including the Lipiński Competition (Poland, 2016), the Yampolsky Competition (Moscow, 2017), the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris (2018), as well as winner of the 3rd Prize and Bronze Medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (2023), and the 1st Prize along with two special awards at the Viktor Tretyakov Competition (2023).

The geography of his performances spans leading concert halls across Europe, Asia, North and South America — from the Moscow Conservatory and Carnegie Hall to the stages of Paris, Siena, Brussels, Tallinn, Seoul, Rio-de-janeiro, Geneva and many others. He has collaborated with orchestras including the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, ERSO, the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan, among others.

He has worked with conductors and soloists such as Valery Gergiev, Alexander Rudin, Pavel Nersessian, Lucas Debargue, Boris Belkin, Alena Baeva, and others.

Kogan devotes special attention to contemporary classical music: his repertoire includes works by Ligeti, Berio, Gubaidulina, Scelsi, Lindberg, and others. In 2022, he became the first performer in Russia of Ysaÿe’s Seventh Sonata.

In the past year, he premiered in Russia the Violin Concerto by B. A. Zimmermann and gave the world premiere of Vladimir Gorlinsky’s Violin Concerto with the participation of the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra under conductor Fyodor Lednyov.

He has taken part in various festivals in Thailand, France, the USA, Canada, Italy, as well as Russian projects such as Homecoming and Musical Expedition. He was also a participant of the Verbier Festival Academy and the Villars Music Academy (Switzerland), where he won the Balik Prize.

In 2021, his first album was released on the Melodiya label, featuring works by Szymanowski, Schubert, and Schoenberg; in 2024, an album of French composers followed. In 2025, he was included in the international list of young leaders in arts and culture, Blueprint 100.

Since 2019, he has headed the art group Prityazhenie, and since 2020 he became a professor in the Moscow Conservatory.

Among the highlights of the upcoming season are Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, the Moscow premiere of Gubaidulina’s Second Violin Concerto at the Tchaikovsky Hall, a full performance of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Britten’s Violin Concerto with the State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan under Alexander Sladkovsky, as well as debuts with la voce strumentale and concert tours in Japan and China.

He performs on instruments by Antonio Stradivari, Francesco Ruggeri, and Marco Nolli.

January 2026