Grammy Award-winning Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov – Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year – has risen to fame as a solo artist, chamber musician and composer. His international career has taken him around the globe, performing with leading orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, La Scala Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Jaap van Zweden, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ginanandrea Noseda and others. Since making solo recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Japan’s Suntory Hall and Paris’s Salle Pleyel in 2012-13, he has given recitals at the major venues in Washington DC, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul and Melbourne. In recent seasons Daniil Trifonov undertook residencies with the Berlin Philharmonic and at Vienna’s Musikverein. His festival appearances include Verbier, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Blossom, Ravinia and the Lucerne Piano Festival. It was during the 2010-11 season that Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions, taking Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix – an additional honor bestowed on the best overall competitor in any category – in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist by Italy’s foremost music critics, and in 2016 he was named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year. His recordings have won prestigious awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 for his Liszt album Transcendental. In October of 2021, Trifonov released Bach: The Art of Life on Deutsche Grammophon, including The Art of Fugue with the pianist’s own completion of the final contrapunctus. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Trifonov began his musical training at the age of five, and went on to attend Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music as a student of Tatiana Zelikman, before pursuing his piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied composition, and continues to write for piano, chamber ensemble and orchestra.