Daniil Trifonov, Piano

Daniil Trifonov (D.Trifonov), Piano

Biography

Daniil Trifonov,born in Nizhniy Novgorod in 1991, has been studying music from the age of five. Currently he studies at the Moscow Gnessin Special Middle Music School, in the class of Docent Tatiana Abramovna Zelikman.

Daniil was Prize Winner of the Moscow Open Artobolevskaya Competition for
Young Pianists (First Prize, 1999), the International Television Competition for Young Musicians (Grand Prize, 2003), the Chamber Ensembles Festival "The Return" (2005), the Romantic Music Festival for Moscow Young Musicians (2006), and the Fifth International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (Beijing).

He has been a recipient of the Yuri Rozum International Charity Foundation Scholarship, the Scriabin Scholarship, the "New Names" Scholarship, the "Young Talents of Russia" Foundation Scholarship, and, in June 2008, won the $15,000 First Prize in the Guzik Foundation Competition, Piano Division.  In September 2008, Daniil won top honors at the prestigious San Marino International Piano Competition: both the Gold Medal and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a composition of Chick Corea.

Daniil has performed with many orchestras, and has participated in music festivals in Russia, Germany and Austria. He also composes piano and orchestra music