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.
In the 2026 /27 season, Trifonov joins the Berlin Philharmonic 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, Orch estre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Orchestre National de France. Other orchestral highlights include Prokofiev with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, and Philharmonia Zürich; Rachmaninov with the St. Louis Symphony; Scriabin with the Dal las Symphony; Dvořák with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and Beethoven rarities on a European tour with the Berlin Baroque Soloists. Trifonov embarks on a major transatlantic tour with a new solo recital program of Handel, Schuber t, 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 Trifonov’s 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 Rachmaninov 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.
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 Tchaik ovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY FOR THE SEASON 2026/2027 . LAST UPDATED JULY 2026 .