Dániel Hodos was born in Hungary and began learning the violin at the age of eight with Anita Szabó. He was admitted to the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2017, where he studied with Miklós Szenthelyi. In 2021 he received a Kohl Scholarship to study at the Colburn Music Academy as a student of Joan Kwuon.

Dániel is a winner of Salon de Virtuosi‘s 2023 Career Grant and was invited to perform at the Salon‘s annual Gala Awards Concert at Merkin Hall in New York. He is also a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist scholarship recipient in 2023, an award given to 20 prominent pre-college musicians, chosen by NPR‘s “From the Top”, a platform for young musical talent.

He is the laureate of national and international competitions. He was the 1st prize winner of the XV. Koncz Janos Violin Competition, he received 2nd prize at the Ilona Feher International Violin Competition (2017). He was also the absolute first prize winner of the Danubia Talents International Music Festival and Competition (2020). He was selected as a finalist for the Leonid Kogan International Competition (2020), and he was a Merit Award winner of the Music Center’s Spotlight Competition (2022). He was a winner of the Colburn Academy Concerto Competition (2023), and most recently he received the special prize of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra at the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition (2023).

Dániel has appeared as a soloist with several major Hungarian orchestras, such as the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Zuglo Philharmonics, Hungarian Virtuosos Chamber Orchestra, and Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra. He played in masterclasses led by renowned musicians such as Midori Goto, Paul Kantor, Kirill Troussov, Tobias Feldmann, Danielle Belen, Alexander Markov, Mimi Zweig, and Barnabás Kelemen. In the summer of 2022, he attended the Meadowmount School of Music, where he studied with Gerardo Ribeiro. This last summer he attended the Aspen Music Festival and School as a string fellowship recipient studying under Robert Lipsett.