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.

Trifonov’s 2025/26 season includes three performances at Carnegie Hall. He first reunites with German baritone Matthias Goerne for a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, as the culmination of their North American tour of Schubert’s great song cycles that also sees them perform Schwanengesang in Boston, Winterreise in Toronto, Washington, DC, and Dallas. After the North American performances, Trifonov and Goerne tour the cycles to Leipzig, Vienna, and Paris. In November, Trifonov returns to Carnegie Hall in the company of Cristian Mǎcelaru and the Orchestre National de France for two great French piano concertos: Saint-Saëns’s Second and Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G. Finally, in December, Trifonov’s third Carnegie Hall appearance of the season is a mainstage solo recital, with the same program performed throughout the season in both the U.S. and Europe. Other season highlights for Trifonov include a duo tour with violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider to cities such as Copenhagen, Oslo, Berlin, and Vienna, as well as a reprise of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. He also performs the same work three times with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Daniel Harding, and Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – where Trifonov served as 2024/25 artist-in-residence – led by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Théâtre des Champs Élysées and Philharmonie de Paris, 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. Autumn of 2025 he released the double album My American Story: North on Deutsche Grammophon. It included Mason Bates’s Piano Concerto – dedicated to Trifonov – captured live with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.