Elijah Ho is a writer on classical music for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. Formerly a piano student of Ronald Turini and Dang Thai Son, he has begun on the side a series of interviews with renowned artists.
Thursday evening at Renzo Piano’s modern Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, a program given of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov’s music was marked by grace, musical distinction, and infectious excitement. The excitement was brought by the pianism of the young Daniil Trifonov, who astounded with profound and agreeable musicality in the Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor.
