Pianist Daniil Trifonov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union on 5 March 1991, the only child of a composer father and a music teacher mother. He began studying the piano at the age of five, and gave his first solo concert at seven. …
While at the Cleveland Institute of Music, he was also was a composition student of Keith Fitch.
Trifonov has an amazing technique, and the music of Rachmaninov is in seemingly magic hands when he performs. Have a look and enjoy:
