{"id":12130,"date":"2023-11-06T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:43:20","slug":"superstar-russian-pianist-unable-acquire-uk-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/11\/06\/superstar-russian-pianist-unable-acquire-uk-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar Russian Pianist Unable to Acquire UK Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12131\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Trifonov\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniil Trifonov (Photo courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pianist Daniil Trifonov is forced to cancel performances in the UK due to visa issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Up?:<\/strong> The USA-based Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has had a season of performance cancellations in the UK due to difficulties acquiring a visa. Most recently, the Philharmonia Orchestra <a href=\"https:\/\/slippedisc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/trifonov-canx.jpg\">announced a substitute<\/a> on November 26th for Triifonov\u2019s scheduled London appearance. This cancellation follows numerous others, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daniil_trifonov\/status\/1635335765025759234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1635335765025759234%7Ctwgr%5E629ecb344ce95e385a54fa802aa68fe227ac8ca5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslippedisc.com%2F2023%2F03%2Fworlds-1-pianist-cannot-get-uk-visa%2F\">\u201ctimely and concerted efforts.\u201d<\/a> No explanation has been offered, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/artists\/daniil-trifonov\/\">from Trifonov\u2019s management.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Refresher:<\/strong> Born in 1991, the Grammy award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov has been lauded as \u201cwithout question the most astounding pianist of our age\u201d by the London Times. He rose to fame after winning the Arthur Rubinstein and International Tchaikovsky Competitions in 2011, followed by numerous others. He regularly performs worldwide and was recently made a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging Deeper:<\/strong> Although the UK may be off the table for the time being, fans can catch Trifonov this month playing in the US, Spain, France and Germany. Fingers\u2019 crossed the UK government grants him re-entry soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pianist Daniil Trifonov is forced to cancel performances in the UK due to visa issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3,87],"tags":[347],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Daniil-Trifonov.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12132,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}