Grammy Award -winning pianist Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of won der to audiences and critics alike.
He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with Transcendental , the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist.
Trifonov’s 2025 /26 season includes three programs at Carnegie Hall. First, he performs Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with German baritone Matthias Goerne, crowning a transatlantic tour
of the composer’s great song cycles that also takes the duo from Toronto, Boston, and Washington, D.C. to Paris, Leipzig, and Vienna. Next at the New York venue, Trifonov joins Cristian M acelaru and the Orchestre National de France for two major French concertos: Saint -Saens’s Second and Ravel’s jazz -inflected Concerto in G. Finally, he ret urns to Carnegie Hall for a mainstage solo recital of Schumann, Myaskovsky, Taneyev, and Prokofiev, with which program he tours Europe and the U.S. throughout the season.
Other highlights include a European tour with Nikolaj Szeps -Znaider; Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with both the Cleveland Orchestra and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia; and Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with both the Cincinnati and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Trifonov also explores Tchaikovsky’s more intimate sid e on a new double
album, Tchaikovsky , released by Deutsche Grammophon in October 2025.
Trifonov’s existing Deutsche Grammophon discography includes 2024’s My American Story: North, which received the UK’s Presto Music Award; the Grammy -nominated live recording of his
Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age , for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the best -selling, Grammy -nominated double album Bach: The
Art of Life ; and three volumes of Rachmaninov works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet -Séguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019
Concerto Recording of the Year. Named Gramopho ne’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the
French government in 2021.
During the 2010 /11 season, 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 Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competitio n. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.