Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov combines consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth. His performances are a perpetual source of wonder 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. Next at the New York venue, Trifonov joins Cristian Macelaru and the Orchestre National de France. Finally, he returns 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’s existing Deutsche Grammophon discography includes his newest album Tchaikovsky; 2024’s My American Story: North, which received the UK’s Presto Music Award; 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 Nezet-Seguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’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 Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.