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.

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