DaniilTrifonov

Hailed by the Guardian as "a phenomenon", Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent of the classical music world as a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. 

In 2024/25, Daniil undertakes season-long artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic. A highlight of his Chicago residency is Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with incoming music director Klaus Mäkelä, and his Czech tenure features Dvořák’s Concerto with Semyon Bychkov at season-opening concerts in Prague, Toronto, and at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Daniil also opens the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s season with Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto under Andris Nelsons; performs Prokofiev’s Second with the San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen; reprises Dvořák’s concerto for a European tour with Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony; plays Ravel’s G-major Concerto with Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Alan Gilbert; and joins Rafael Payare and the Montreal Symphony for concertos by Schumann and Beethoven on a major eight-city European tour. In recital, Daniil appears twice more at Carnegie Hall as part of two U.S. tours, with a solo program and with violinist Leonidas Kavakos. Released in fall 2024, My American Story, the pianist’s new Deutsche Grammophon double album, pairs solo pieces with concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates.

Since making solo recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein Wien, Suntory Hall, and Salle Pleyel over a decade ago, Daniil has given solo recitals at venues including Boston’s Celebrity Series, Barbican Centre, Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls, Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Master Piano Series), Philharmonie Berlin, Herkulessaal Munich, Tonhalle Zurich, the Lucerne Piano Festival, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Palau de la Música, Tokyo’s Opera City, Seoul Arts Center, and Melbourne’s Recital Centre.

In March 2024, Deutsche Grammophon released Rachmaninoff for Two with Sergei Babayan as his partner. For his 2021 release Bach: The Art of Life, featuring Bach's masterpiece The Art of Fugue as completed by Daniil himself, he received his sixth Grammy nomination. An accompanying music video, in which he performs his own completion of The Art of Fugue's final contrapunctus, was honoured with the 2022 Opus Klassik Public Award. Daniil also received Opus Klassik's 2021 Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano Award for Silver Age, his album of Russian solo and orchestral piano music by Scriabin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.