GUEST ARTISTS: Mar 1–Apr 10, 2022 MARCH 1: DANIIL TRIFONOV IN RECITAL
DANIIL TRIFONOV, piano 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, which combine consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, 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 the 2021–22 season, Trifonov releases Bach: The Art of Life (Deutsche Grammophon). He also makes several international concerto appearances, including a European tour with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and he gives the world premiere of Mason Bates’ Piano Concerto, composed for him during the pandemic, with the co-commissioning Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony. Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions in 2010– 11: 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. daniiltrifonov.com MARCH 4–5: BRAHMS 1 & ELGAR CONCERTO
DAVID DANZMAYR, conductor
CSO DEBUT
David Danzmayr is widely regarded as one of the most talented and exciting European conductors to emerge from his generation. Newly appointed as Music Director of the Oregon Symphony, Danzmayr began his tenure there at the start of the 2021–22 season. ©Music Vine Arts Danzmayr also stands at the helm of the versatile and innovative Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra Columbus—having been that ensemble’s Music Director for more than 10 years—and he holds the title of Honorary Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, an orchestra with whom he served as Chief Conductor for four seasons.
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Other career highlights include tenures as Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra in Chicago, and Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow. In recent years Danzmayr has carved out his niche as an interpreter of a wide array of repertoire, with appearances in recent seasons across North America and overseas. Danzmayr is a prize winner of some of the world´s most prestigious conducting competitions, including the International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition and the International Malko Conducting Competition. He has also been awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum. David Danzmayr received his musical training at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg where, after initially studying piano, he went on to study conducting in the class of Dennis Russell Davies. danzmayr.eu
ALBAN GERHARDT, cello Having launched his career with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Semyon Bychkov in 1991, Alban Gerhardt has since gained recognition as one of the most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his performances, from solo Bach through the classical and ©Kaupo Kikkas romantic canon to collaborations with several contemporary composers. Notable orchestra collaborations include Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London Philharmonic, all of the British and German radio orchestras, Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de France as well as the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago symphony orchestras. Gerhardt recently premiered a new cello concerto by Julian Anderson with Orchestre National de France, following on from the success of his performances of Brett Dean’s concerto premiered with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Berliner Philharmoniker and played with the Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. This season he again performs the Anderson concerto and the Dean concerto, has a residency with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and performs with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Alban Gerhardt plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dating from 1710. albangerhardt.com
