Daniil Trifonov

Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent of the classical music world as a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer.

In the 2026-27 season, Trifonov joins the Berliner Philharmoniker at New York’s Carnegie Hall and on an extensive South American tour for Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, which is also the vehicle for his San Diego Symphony debut and returns to the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Orchestre National de France. Other orchestral highlights include Prokofiev with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonia Zürich; Rachmaninoff with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Scriabin with the Dallas Symphony; Dvořák with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and Beethoven rarities on a European tour with the Berliner Barock Solisten. Trifonov embarks on a major transatlantic tour with a new solo recital program of Handel, Schubert, Stravinsky, Villa-Lobos, Francisco García, Bullumba Landestoy, Camargo Guarnieri, and the versatile composer-pianist himself.

The music of Latin America also features on My American Story: South, Trifonov’s most recent Deutsche Grammophon recording, due for release in fall 2026. His existing DG discography includes Tchaikovsky, exploring the composer’s more intimate side; My American Story: North, which received the UK’s Presto Music Award; the Grammy-nominated live recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations and Silver Age, for each of 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 Rachmaninoff works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music Magazine’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. Named Gramophone’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.