Daniil Trifonov piano
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He has everything: sensitivity, intelligence, and a technique that has to be seen and heard to be believed. The Sunday Telegraph, April 2016
Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Daniil Trifonov has gained a reputation for his outstanding performances, musical insight and expressive intensity. Tonight’s concert is the culmination of a week’s tour of Germany with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 to audiences in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich. Other recent and forthcoming concerto highlights include the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons, the London Symphony and Mariinsky orchestras with Valery Gergiev, the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, The Philadelphia Orchestra with Cristian Măcelaru, the San Francisco Symphony and Minnesota orchestras with Osmo Vänskä, the Russian National Orchestra with Mikhail Pletnev, the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert, The Cleveland Orchestra with James Gaffigan, the Boston Symphony with Giancarlo Guerrero, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Sir Mark Elder, the Oslo Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko and the Danish Radio Symphony with Gianandrea Noseda. This season he also tours with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti, including performances in Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Paris. In the 2016/17 season Daniil was ‘Capell-Virtuos’ with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which included concerts at the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Vienna Musikverein, and he performed the complete Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto cycle with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev. In 2016 he was Artist of the Year at the
Gramophone Awards, and was also awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Instrumentalist category. Recent and forthcoming recitals include London’s Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and Barbican; the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York; Washington’s Kennedy Center, Boston Celebrity Series, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw’s Master Piano Series, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Zurich Tonhalle and Tokyo’s Opera City, amongst many others. Daniil Trifonov has also appeared at major European festivals including Verbier, Lucerne, Montreux, Tivoli, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lockenhaus, Grafenegg, La Roque d’Anthéron, Klavier Festival Ruhr; and in the USA at Blossom, Ravinia and Chautauqua. Daniil Trifonov studied at the Moscow Gnesin School of Music from 2000–09. From 2006 he also studied composition, and has since continued to compose piano, chamber and orchestral music. When he premiered his own piano concerto in 2014, The Cleveland Plain Dealer commented: ‘Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil Trifonov.’ In 2013 Deutsche Grammophon announced the signing of an exclusive recording agreement with Daniil Trifonov. His first recording as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist (Trifonov: The Carnegie Recital) won a Grammy Award nomination. His latest release, Transcendental, was awarded the ECHO Klassik 2017 award for Best Solo Recording for piano music composed in the 19th century.
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