Shriver Hall Concert Series: Daniil Trifonov, piano

Description

Pianist Daniil Trifonovis is the featured performer for the Zarelda Fambrough Memorial Concert as part of the 2022-2023 Shriver Hall Concert Series.

Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov)—Musical America's 2019 Artist of the Year—has established a reputation as a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his 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. As The Times of London notes, he is "without question the most astounding pianist of our age."

In recent seasons Trifonov served as Artist-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic—a residency that included the New York premiere of his own piano quintet—and curated and performed a seven-concert, season-long Carnegie Hall "Perspectives" series, crowned by a performance of his own piano concerto. 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. 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 began his musical training at the age of five, attended Moscow's Gnessin School of Music, and continued his piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.