Daniil Trifonov

Pianist

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The Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov was named Artist of the Year by the magazine Musical America in 2019, and has conquered the classical music world as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist, and also as a composer. He received his first Grammy Award for his 2018 album Transcendental, featuring music by Liszt.

In 2024/25 he was Artist in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic. Other appearances included performances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. He also appeared on European tours with the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša and with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare. In addition, he toured the US both as a soloist and together with Leonidas Kavakos, including performances at Carnegie Hall, New York.

Daniil Trifonov is a regular guest at prestigious international festivals such as the Verbier Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the BBC Proms and the Salzburg Festival. He appears regularly in recitals at leading concert halls, among them the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Barbican Centre, Bozar in Brussels, the Palau de la Música Catalana and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. His chamber music partners include Sergei Babayan, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Vilde Frang, Clemens Hagen, Joshua Bell and Matthias Goerne.

Since 2013 he has been an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon. His discography includes the Grammy-nominated live recording of his recital debut at Carnegie Hall; Silver Age (OPUS Klassik); the double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three albums of works by Rachmaninoff with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin (BBC Music Magazine Award). In autumn 2024 he released the double album My American Story, which includes concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates.

Daniil Trifonov attended Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music and went on to further studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Sergei Babayan. In 2011 he won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, third prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and first prize and the grand prix of the jury at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 2016 he was named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year and in 2021 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

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