Daniil Trifonov — pianist with roots in the USSR
Daniil Trifonov (born 5 March 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian pianist based in New York. He studied at the Gnessin School in Moscow with Tatiana Zelikman and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Sergei Babayan. In 2011 he won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition and first prize and the Grand Prix at the Tchaikovsky Competition. He records for Deutsche Grammophon, and his Liszt album Transcendental won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo in 2018.
Tracing the roots — Nizhny Novgorod
Trifonov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, in 1991, the son of a composer and a music teacher. He studied at the Gnessin School in Moscow from 2000 before moving to the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2009.
Nizhny Novgorod. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.
A career defined by ambition
"The piano is a universe. You spend your life just discovering its edges."