Master Class with Daniil Trifonov
Event details
- Thursday | March 21 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Mentors in Music Master Class with Daniil Trifonov
Presented by DACAMERA and the Shepherd School of Music
Mentors in Music is a series of master classes in which Houston’s most talented student musicians have an opportunity to work directly with DACAMERA guest artists. Audience members hear the students perform and get insights from the feedback Daniil Trifonov offers.
Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Daniil Trifonov began his musical training at the age of five, and went on to attend Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music as a student of Tatiana Zelikman, before pursuing piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Recommended Concerts
Daniil Trifonov, piano
- Friday | March 22 | 8:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov, Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, is “Without question, the most astounding pianist of our age,” says The Times of London.
Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars “Music for New Bodies”
- Saturday | April 20 | 8:00 PM
- Brockman Hall for Opera, Rice University
For Unsilent Spring, a major new work and exciting first collaboration between the brilliant young composer Matthew Aucoin and legendary director Peter Sellars, a 360-degree portrait of the moment we are living in, a piece that brings together questions of environmental responsibility, scientific progress and the ethics of humanity’s questionable quest to surpass the human.
Adam Tendler, piano | “Inheritances”
- Tuesday | May 7 | 7:30 PM
- The Menil Collection
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself.
