Biography
Piano
Daniil Trifonov
Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. He won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album in 2018 with Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as a Deutsche Grammophon artist. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in January 2014 as a Shenson Young Artist.
This season, Trifonov undertakes season-long artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony and Czech Philharmonic. He also opened the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s season, and tours Europe with the Bamberg Symphony and Montral Symphony. His latest album, My American Story on Deutsche Grammophon, pairs solo pieces with concertos by George Gershwin and Mason Bates.
Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography includes the Grammy-nominatedlive recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the Grammy-nominated double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff 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. Named Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2021.
During the 2010–11 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.
This season, Trifonov undertakes season-long artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony and Czech Philharmonic. He also opened the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s season, and tours Europe with the Bamberg Symphony and Montral Symphony. His latest album, My American Story on Deutsche Grammophon, pairs solo pieces with concertos by George Gershwin and Mason Bates.
Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography includes the Grammy-nominatedlive recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the Grammy-nominated double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff 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. Named Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2021.
During the 2010–11 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.
