Daniil Trifonov bio

Grammy Award–winning pianist and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer, whose performances—combining 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 fall 2022, Mr. Trifonov headlined season-opening galas with Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Later this season, he returns to Carnegie Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and with violinist Joshua Bell for the first of three high-profile collaborations. Other upcoming highlights include concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; season-long residencies with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France; tours with the Orchestre National de France and London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a chamber collaboration with Stefan Jackiw and Alisa Weilerstein at the 92nd Street Y; and the release of Deutsche Grammophon’s deluxe new CD and Blu-Ray edition of the best-selling double album Bach: The Art of Life.

Mr. Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography also includes the Grammy-nominated live recording of his Carnegie Hall recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year / Piano award; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff works with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, two of which received Grammy nominations and the third of which won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. In 2016, Mr. Trifonov 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 2010–2011 season, Mr. 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 the Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.