Daniil Zimin was born in 2001. He studied at the Gnessin Music School, class of the Honored Artist of Russia Igor Zimin. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Associate Professor Boris Andrianov. Currently, he is a graduate student at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor Alexander Rudin. 2017 -third prize at the Virtuoso & Belcanto International Competition (Lucca, Italy). 2019 -second prize at the XV International Competition of Musicians in the string Instrument category (Moscow). In 2023. Participant of the XVII Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow) He performed at concerts organized by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. Participated in Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic festivals as a soloist and orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with such conductors as Alexander Skulsky, Maxim Fedotov, Alexander Titov and others. Participated in master classes of such musicians as David Geringas,Frans Helmersson, Antonio Menezes, Ivan Monighetti, J. P. Mainz, Thorleif Tedin, Natalia Shakhovskaya, Sandro Meo, Alexander Ramm and others. 2019 – Siena. Chigiana summer academy
He has been student of Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2026.