On Tuesday, June 30th, pianist Daniil Trifonov will appear Live with Carnegie Hall. The event takes place at 2 PM EDT/11 AM PDT on Carnegie Hall’s website and also on their Facebook page and YouTube channel.
We’ve written several times about Trifonov. He is easily amongst the finest, most adventurous and ambitious classical pianists currently performing, recording and in his case, sometimes composing.
For this online event he will be in discussion with pianist Emanuel Ax. Joining them will be another pianist, Sergei Babayan, who was also one of Trifonov’s teachers at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
The subject of this conversation will be Trifonov’s amazing career.
Trifonov is only 29 years old, but he has impressed critics and fellow musicians alike. During the 2010-2011 season he did quite well in three prestigious piano competitions. He won Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition.
That latter honor is particularly prestigious as the second prize goes to the best overall competitor in any category.
Ten years later and he’s considered amongst the great classical pianists of our time. His album, Transcendental, a collection of compositions by Franz Liszt, won the Grammy Award in 2018 for Best Instrumental Soloist.
Hopefully you were able to catch his Carnegie Hall recital when it was recently available for one weekend through the venue’s association with Medici.tv.
This Tuesday’s conversation should be a fascinating one. Remember, if you cannot watch Live with Carnegie Hall: Daniil Trifonov live as it happens, Carnegie Hall archives these programs for later viewing.
In fact, you can catch all the previous programs including sessions with Ute Lemper, Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard and many more.
Photo of Daniil Trifonov courtesy of Opus 3 Artists