About 2013 / 2014 Season Artist

Recital Su/ Mar 9, 4 pm ● Lincoln Hall Stravinsky, Serenade in A Major Ravel (from Miroirs), Noctuelles ("Night Moths") Oiseaux tristes ("Sad Birds") Une barque sur l'océan ("A boat on the Ocean") Alborada del gracioso ("The Gracioso's Aubade") Schoenberg, Three Pieces, Op. 11 Schumann, Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

Born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1991, Daniil Trifonov is one of the brightest names of the next generation of pianists. His reputation for outstanding performances, musical insight and expressive intensity has already surpassed the attention he received when, during the 2010/11 season, he won medals at three of the most prestigious competitions in the music world: the Chopin Competition in Warsaw (Third Prize), the Rubinstein Competition in (First Prize) and the Tchaikovsky Competition in (First Prize and Grand Prix). Jury members and observers at these competitions included , Krystian Zimerman, Van Cliburn, Emanuel Ax, , Yefim Bronfman and . Gergiev personally awarded Trifonov the 'Grand Prix' in Moscow, the award given to the best overall competitor in any of that Competition's categories.

Highlights of the 2011/12 season for Trifonov included debuts with the Philharmonic Orchestra (tour and subscription concerts in Vienna), Symphony Orchestra and Mariinsky Orchestra with Gergiev, Israel Philharmonic with Mehta, Russian National Orchestra with Pletnev, as well as collaborations with Vladimir Fedoseyev, Pietari Inkinen, Sir Neville Marriner, Diego Matheuz and Antoni Wit. He also has given performances at the Wigmore Hall London, Musikverein Vienna, Salle Pleyel Paris, New York, Suntory Hall Tokyo, and venues across North and South America, Europe and Asia. The audience responses and reviews he has received throughout the season have consistently marked him out as one of the outstanding talents of today.

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The 2012/13 season will see Daniil Trifonov making his debut with several prestigious international orchestras, including , Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, , Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and returns to the London Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic.

r ’ 2012/13 recitals include Washington Kennedy Center, New York Carnegie Hall (Stern auditorium), Boston Celebrity Series, Berlin Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Munich Herkulessaal, Amsterdam (main auditorium), London Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, Paris Auditorium du Louvre, Zurich Tonhalle and Lucerne Piano Festival, Brussels Palais de Beaux Arts, Schloss Elmau, Seoul Arts Center and many others.

- more - Daniil Trifonov began his musical studies at the age of five. He studied at Moscow Gnesin School of Music in the class of Tatiana Zelikman (2000-2009). From 2006 to 2009 he also studied composition and has continued to write piano, chamber and orchestral music since then. Since 2009, he has studied piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the class of . In 2008, at the age of 17, he received awards at the Scriabin Competition of Moscow and at the International competition. He also received a Guzik Foundation Career Grant in 2009, leading top tours of the USA and Italy.

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