Daniil Trifonov
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Date
- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Saturday, 19:00
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
- 31,00 € – 70,00 €
Single tickets
Online priority booking (Cartão Gulbenkian Mais): 29 Jun, 10:00
Online booking: 30 Jun, 10:00
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10% – Over 65
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50% – Under 30
20% – Over 65
10% – 30 to 65
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Daniil Trifonov
Piano
Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, winner of the 2016 Gramophone Artist of the Year Award, has made a spectacular rise in the world of classical music as a soloist, both in recital and with orchestra, as well as a performer of chamber music and Lied and as a composer. He has recently added to his considerable list of accolades a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album, thanks to his double CD of Liszt's music entitled "Transcendental", his third work as an exclusive artist on the Deutsche Grammophon label. In the words of The Times, Trifonov is "undoubtedly the most astonishing pianist of our time".
Throughout the 2021-22 season, Daniil Trifonov continues to offer concert and recital performances, exploring lesser-known music of his Russian compatriots. With the Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, he will perform a piano concerto by a Soviet composer who predates Shostakovich: Alexander Mosolov's Piano Concerto No. 1. Alternating his performances of Mason Bates' Piano Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic and Lahav Shani, he will play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, and the following month Piano Concerto No. 1 by the same composer along with Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra with the Montreal Symphony under its new music director, Rafael Payare. As with most of Trifonov's seasons, he also collaborates in 2021-22 with his teacher and mentor Sergei Babayan, performing a two-piano programme of Rachmaninoff's music at La Scala in Milan, preceded by stops in Florence, Rome and Turin.
Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Trifonov began his musical training at the age of five and attended the Gnessin Music School in Moscow as a student of Tatiana Zelikman. He continued his piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He also studied composition and continues to compose for piano, chamber ensembles and orchestra.
Georg Friedrich Händel
Igor Stravinsky
Franz Schubert
Juan Francisco García
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Rafael Bullumba Landestoy
Alberto Ginastera
Daniil Trifonov
Rafael Bullumba Landestoy
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri
Heitor Villa-Lobos
For many years, Daniil Trifonov’s brilliance was devoted largely to the interpretation of Chopin, Schumann and Scriabin, the cornerstones of his artistic identity. Gradually, he broadened his repertoire and achieved astonishing versatility, while also investing in his work as a composer. He believes that ‘what makes music so close to theatre are its dramaturgical qualities’, in the sense that ‘the piano is an instrument capable of creating certain emotional landscapes’. It is these immense and varied landscapes that he will reveal to us in concert.
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Sponsor Piano Series
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