St Petersburg, Concert Hall

Daniil Trifonov recital (piano)


Recital Series: Laureates of the 14th Tchaikovsky Competition
Daniil Trifonov (the biography) >>

Programme:
Frédéric Chopin. Barcarolle, Op. 60. Études Op. 25
Franz Schubert – Franz Liszt. Frühlingsglaube. Barcarolle. Die Forelle. Der Erlkönig
Robert Schumann – Franz Liszt. Widmung
Niccolò Paganini – Franz Liszt. La Campanella
Franz Liszt. Mephisto Waltz No.1 in A Major

Over the course of the last season, Daniil Trifonov has been a prize-winner at three prestigious international competitions. In October he took third place and won the special prize for the best performance of a mazurka at the Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In May he won the 1st prize, the Gold Medal, the “Audience Favourite” prize, the Chamber Music Prize and the Chopin Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, while at the close of the season at the XIV Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Competition he was awarded the 1st prize, the Grand Prix, the prize for the best performance with a chamber orchestra and the “Audience Favourite” prize.

Thanks to these victories, his remarkable talent and artistic charisma, the twenty-year-old pianist has already become one of the most sought-after musicians in the world. Less than two months after his victory in Moscow he undertook a tour of Israel and the USA. He appeared at Poland’s premier music forum, the Chopin and His Europe festival, with the internationally acclaimed Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev where he performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The performance proved an absolute triumph. Trifonov received a standing ovation and the audience would not let him leave the stage for a full ten minutes, insisting he keep taking curtain calls.

“Last night I listened to him again on YouTube – he has everything and more. What he does with his hands is technically incredible. It’s also his touch – he has tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that.” (Martha Argerich, The Financial Times, 9 July 2011)

Tour plans for this season include performances with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Antoni Wit, collaborations with such conductors as Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Sir Neville Marriner and Krzysztof Penderecki and recital programmes.

Age category 6+

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