Audiences and critics worldwide agree: Daniil Trifonov is an exceptional pianist and has catapulted himself into the top tier of artists with his technically brilliant and at the same time expressively virtuoso piano playing. Trifonov, whose full name is Daniil Olegovich Trifonov, was born in 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and received his first piano lessons at the age of five. He later studied piano and composition at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow and at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Trifonov’s extensive repertoire spans epochs from solo concertos to chamber music and large orchestral concerts. In addition to the classical piano repertoire, Trifonov regularly performs his own compositions with great success and recognition.In the course of his concert activities, the pianist has worked with renowned orchestras and renowned conductors, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Mariinsky Orchestra or the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev and Riccardo Muti, among others.Trifonov’s CD recordings have also been nominated several times for Grammy Awards and his album "Transcendental" was awarded the prize for Best Instrumental Solo Album 2018.