Daniil Trifonov
Daniil Trifonov Olegovich (Russian Даниил Олегович Трифонов; * March 5, 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod ) is a Russian pianist and composer.
Life
Trifonov studied at the Moscow Institute Gnessins in the class of Tatiana Zelikman and since 2009 at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Sergei Babayan.
He won several piano competitions, including the 2010 third prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2011 and the 1st prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv and the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The Süddeutsche Zeitung called him after his Germany debut at the Berlin Philharmonie "one of the most successful and most incomprehensible piano talents of recent decades ".
Trifonov has performed in his homeland as well as in Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. Daniil Trifonov 2013 again gave a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall. This concert was released in October 2013 as a live recording of " The Carnegie Recital" by Deutsche Grammophon.
Besides his work as a pianist himself Trifonov could profile as a composer.
Publications
Trifonov published five previous CDs with the following levels:
- Frédéric Chopin: Etude in F major, Op 10 No 8, Etude in G sharp minor, Opus 25 No. 8, Nocturne in B major, Op 62 No 1, Scherzo in E major, Op 54, Waltz in E flat major 18 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op 60 Mazurkas op 56, No. 1-3, Scherzo in C sharp minor op 39, Andante et Grande Polonaise brillante spianato op 22, Rondo in F major, Op 5, Polonaise - Fantasie As major, Opus 61, Tarantelle flat major, Op 43, Sonata in B minor, Op 58, Piano Concerto in E minor, Op 11 - Warsaw: Institute Narodowy Fryderyka Chopina, 2010
- Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto in E minor, Op 11 (arr. for string orchestra), Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op 60 Impromptu A flat major, Op 29 Impromptu in F sharp major, Op 36, Tarantella flat major Op 43 - Warsaw Dux, 2011
- Frédéric Chopin: Rondo in F major, Op 5, Waltz in E flat major, Op 18, Etude in F major, Op 10 No 8, Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante op 22, Mazurkas Op 56 No. 1-3, Sonata in B minor, Op 58 - Decca, 2011
- Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op 23; Franz Liszt: Processing of songs of Schubert and Schumann - St. Petersburg State Academy Mariinsky Theatre, 2012
- The Carmegie recital, recorded live in Carnegie Hall, New York, German Grammophon 2013