Dana Zemtsov was born in 1992 in Mexico City. At the age of 5, she received her first music lessons from her grandmother and her parents, both viola players (Mikhail Zemtsov and Julia Dinerstein). She has played under the tutelage of renowned professors such as Bruno Giuranna, Atar Arad, Sven Arne Tepl, and is currently studying with the famous viola virtuoso Michael Kugel.