Daniil Trifonov
Grammy Award®–winning pianist Daniil Trifonov—Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year—is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer, whose performances are a perpetual source of wonder to audiences and critics alike. With Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, he won the Grammy Award® for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018.
In fall 2022, Trifonov headlined the season-opening galas of the National Symphony Orchestra and, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall. Over the course of the current season, he returns to that venue, first as the last stop of an extensive North American recital tour, then for the first of three high-profile collaborations with Joshua Bell, and finally with the National Symphony Orchestra. Other 2022–2023 highlights include concerts with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony; season-long residencies with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Radio France; tours with the Orchestre National de France and London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a chamber collaboration with Stefan Jackiw and Alisa Weilerstein at New York’s 92nd Street Y; and the release of DG’s deluxe new CD & Blu-Ray edition of the best-selling, Grammy®–nominated double album, Bach: The Art of Life.
Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography also includes the Grammy®–nominated live recording of his Carnegie Hall recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; and three volumes of Rachmaninov works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of which two received Grammy® nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. In 2016 Trifonov 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.
During the 2010–2011 season, Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.