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Daniil Trifonov, Piano Concert

12th February 2018 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

The most astounding pianist of our age!

“What Daniil Trifonov does with his hands is technically incredible,” observed one commentator shortly after the young Russian pianist’s winning performance in the final of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2011. “It’s also his touch – he has tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that.” This was the opinion not of a professional critic but of one of the world’s greatest pianists, Martha Argerich. She concluded that Trifonov was gifted with “everything and more”, a view endorsed since by a flood of rave reviews, audience ovations and international prizes. In January 2017, Alex Ross observed in The New Yorker. “What sets Trifonov apart, is a pair of attributes that are seldom found in one pianist: monstrous technique and lustrous tone.”

Trifonov’s pianism, with its captivating blend of power and poetry, bears witness to a unique talent. His inventive brilliance and individuality also extend to his growing reputation as a composer, which reached a new level in April 2014 when he performed the fiendishly difficult solo part in the world premiere of his First Piano Concerto at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Daniil Trifonov was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 5 March 1991, the son of professional musicians. “I started playing piano when I was five and was also composing and always playing some concerts,” he recalls. Daniil made his debut with orchestra at the age of eight, an occasion etched in the soloist’s memory by the loss of one of his baby teeth midway through the performance. During his student days at Moscow’s famous Gnessin School of Music, young Daniil borrowed historic recordings of great pianists from his teacher, Tatiana Zelikman, and absorbed lasting lessons from the recorded work of Rachmaninov, Cortot, Horowitz, Friedman, Sofronitsky and other representatives of a golden age of piano playing. “Among the pianists who inspire me nowadays are Martha Argerich, Grigory Sokolov and Radu Lupu,” he notes.

In 2008 the teenaged Trifonov secured fifth prize in Moscow’s Fourth International Scriabin Competition. The following year, on Tatiana Zelikman’s recommendation, he enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Music to study piano with Sergei Babayan; he also received lessons in composition during his time there. Trifonov won the 13th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv in 2011 before returning home to secure first prize, the Gold Medal, and Grand Prix at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition. Trifonov also won the Tchaikovsky Competition’s Audience Award and the Award for the best performance of a Mozart concerto. The Financial Times subsequently wrote of his career’s unstoppable progress and praised the pianist’s oceanic imagination: “What makes Trifonov such a phenomenon is the ecstatic quality he brings to his performances – an all-consuming intensity-of-belonging on the public platform that translates into something thrilling, absorbing, inspiring. Small wonder every western capital is in thrall to him.”

Program

Frédéric Mompou
Variations sur un thème de Chopin

Robert Schumann
«Chopin», extrait de Carnaval, op. 9

Edvard Grieg
«Hommage à Chopin», étude extraite de Sept Impressions, op. 73

Samuel Barber
Nocturne (hommage à John Field), op. 33

Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
«Un poco di Chopin», op. 72, n° 15

Sergueï Rachmaninov
Variations sur un thème de Chopin op. 22

Frédéric Chopin
Sonate pour piano en si bémol n° 2 op. 35

Location Espace Ville de Genève, Grütli, Genève Tourisme, Cité Seniors, Centrale Billetterie T 0800 418 418 (Suisse), T +41 22 418 36 18 (Etranger), http://billetterie-culture.ville-ge.ch, Fnac, www.ch.fnacspectacles.com
Organisation EstRan Productions Sàrl

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Date:
12th February 2018
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
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Victoria Hall
Rue du Général-Dufour 14
Geneva, 1204
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