Piano virtuoso will perform Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Rameau
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SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Daniil Trifonov, piano
- Fri, Nov 17 | 7 p.m. | Campbell Hall
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- Grammy-Award winning pianist Trifonov will perform an ambitious program pairing two 18th century works – Rameau’s Suite in A Minor (1727) and Mozart’s Sonata No. 12 in F Major (1781-1783) – with two from the 19th century: Beethoven’s technically demanding “Hammerklavier” sonata (1818) and Mendelssohn’s Variations Sérieuses (1841)
- $65/ $45 / $30 / $15 UCSB students (Current student ID required)
- Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“Without question the most astounding pianist of our age.” The Times (U.K.)
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Daniil Trifonov in recital on Friday, November 17 at 7 p.m. at UCSB Campbell Hall. Precise, imaginative, tender and above all thrilling, Daniil Trifonov has earned a reputation as the must-hear pianist of the 21st century. Equally adept at discovering new possibilities in mid-18th century works as he is scaling the heights of Beethoven’s majestic “Hammerklavier” sonata, Trifonov combines dazzling technique with depth of feeling and extraordinary musicality.
Program
Rameau: Suite in A Minor, RCT 5
Mozart: Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332
Mendelssohn: Variations Sérieuses, op. 54
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”)
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ABOUT DANIIL TRIFONOV
Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of wonder to audiences and critics alike. He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist.
Trifonov undertakes major engagements on three continents in the 2023-2024 season. He performs Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra; Brahms’ Second with the Los Angeles and Israel philharmonics; Schumann’s Concerto with the New York Philharmonic; Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and other venues with the Rotterdam Philharmonic; Chopin’s First with the Orchestre de Paris; Mason Bates’ Concerto, a work composed for the pianist, with the Chicago Symphony, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Gershwin and Rachmaninoff concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra at home and on a European tour. In recital, he tours Europe with cellist Gautier Capuçon and takes a new solo program of Rameau, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven to cities from Vienna, Barcelona and Milan to Boston, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and New York, at Carnegie Hall.
Trifonov’s Deutsche Grammophon discography includes the Grammy-nominated live recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the bestselling, Grammy-nominated double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. Named Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2021.
During the 2010-2011 season, Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: 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. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Daniil Trifonov is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures in association with the UCSB Department of Music
Special thanks to Classical California, KUSC 91.5 FM
$65/ $45 / $30 / $15 UCSB students (Current student ID required)
For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2023-2024 season.