Daniil Trifonov undertakes residencies with Chicago Symphony & Czech Philharmonic; opens Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra season; gives solo recitals in NYC, Chicago, & Philadelphia; releases new DG album; & more in 2024–25

(August 2024) — Over the coming season, Grammy-winning Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov
maintains a major presence on three continents. Highlights include the release of My American
Story – North by Deutsche Grammophon; season-opening concerts at home and on tour with
the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; and artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic, with which he makes the first of the season’s three
appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall. As well as collaborating on U.S. dates with the San
Francisco Symphony and Houston Symphony, he gives European tours with both the
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Bamberg Symphony, and returns to the Berlin
Philharmonic, Mannheim Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and the London,
Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, and Singapore Symphonies. In recital, he debuts a new solo
program of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Barber; makes solo appearances in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and ten key destinations in Europe; tours Australia with baritone Matthias
Goerne; and embarks on a high-profile U.S. tour with violinist Leonidas Kavakos. As The Times
of London notes, Trifonov remains “without question the most astounding young pianist of
our age.”

New DG double album: My American Story – North

October 4 brings the release of My American Story – North, Trifonov’s newest recording as an
exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. Representing the first installment of a two-part series
exploring music of the Americas through selections of personal importance to the pianist, the
double album pairs concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates with solo pieces by composers who
range from Copland and Carter to Art Tatum and Thomas Newman. Composed during the
pandemic’s early months, Bates’s concerto is dedicated to Trifonov; the Chicago Classical Review
reports:

“Bates’ new score is a technicolor barnstormer. With advocacy such as Trifonov offered
Thursday, it is easy to imagine this new work entering the slender catalogue of major American
works in the genre. … Trifonov was a wonder in this outing. He plays Bates’ score with the
pristine clarity of Bach or Mozart, yet also brings enormous power and dynamism when called
for.”

Both orchestral works were captured live with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia
Orchestra, who previously partnered with the pianist on Destination Rachmaninov, the series
that earned him two Grammy nominations and BBC Music’s “Concerto Recording of the Year.”

U.S. concerts: CSO, Czech Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, & Houston Symphony

Trifonov appears in the States with five orchestras next season. In his only orchestral concerts as
2024–25 Artist-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), he gives four
performances of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto under the baton of Zell Music Director
Designate Klaus Mäkelä (May 1–4). After an account of the same concerto with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic earlier this year, the pianist’s “big, warm, noble interpretation” of the work
prompted Classical Voice to marvel: “In agitated passages, Trifonov sounded like a
heaven-storming Brahmsian; in quiet passages, he sounded like a poet lost in a world of
fantasy and ecstasy.”

The Chicago residency is one of two for the pianist, who also takes up a season-long appointment
as 2024-25 Artist-in-Residence of the Czech Philharmonic. After joining the orchestra and
chief conductor Semyon Bychkov for season-opening accounts of Dvořák’s Piano Concerto in
Prague and Bratislava (Sep 25–27), Trifonov reunites with them for performances of the same
concerto at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory (Dec 7) and New York’s Carnegie Hall (Dec 5).

He also performs the Dvořák with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Juraj Valčuha (Oct
10), as well as playing Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto with Maryland’s National
Philharmonic at Strathmore (Sep 14), before returning to the San Francisco Symphony for
Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto under Esa-Pekka Salonen’s leadership (Feb 21–23). In a
five-star review of Trifonov’s recording of the work, BBC Music magazine writes: “This is a
monstrously beautiful account of the Titanic terror in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto –
can anyone play this better today?”

Major orchestral collaborations in Canada, Europe, the Antipodes, & Singapore

Trifonov joins forces with Canada’s Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Music Director
Rafael Payare for concerts and a high-profile European tour this fall. After performing
Schumann’s only Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s First in Montreal (Sep 18 & 19), they reprise
the Beethoven in London (Nov 19), Amsterdam (Nov 27), and Vienna (Nov 30), and the
Schumann in Paris (Nov 22), Hamburg (Nov 24), Berlin (Nov 25), and Munich (Nov 28). It was
after an account of Beethoven’s First with the Rotterdam Philharmonic that Bachtrack’s reviewer
confessed: “This music spoke directly to the heart and Trifonov’s interpretation persuaded
me to change my mind about this sometimes neglected concerto.”

The pianist is particularly active in Germany, where his engagements with the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra bookend the coming season. In September, he joins the orchestra under
kapellmeister Andris Nelsons for performances of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, first on tour
in Essen, Cologne, and at the Lucerne Festival (Sep 1–4), and then in the annual “Democracy
Concerts” that launch the orchestra’s new season (Sep 6 & 8). His recent traversal of the same
concerto at Carnegie Hall was hailed as “a first-class virtuosic treatment in an interpretation
replete with vitality and feeling” (Bachtrack).

He returns to Leipzig next spring for Shostakovich Festival 2025, which promises to be “one of
the most wide-ranging, comprehensive and star-studded festivals of Shostakovich’s music ever
convened” (Gramophone). As well as performing the Russian composer’s chamber music with
violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and others, Trifonov reunites with
Nelsons and the Gewandhaus orchestra for accounts of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto and
– with trumpeter Thomas Rolfs – his Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings (May 15–31).

Between his Leipzig dates, Trifonov undertakes collaborations with four more of Germany’s
foremost orchestras. He embarks on a European tour with Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg
Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini in Graz, Vienna,
Ljubljana, and Zagreb, as well as Dvořák’s concerto in Bamberg, Brno, and Linz (Oct 21–Nov
5). With Alan Gilbert and Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, he plays Ravel’s Piano
Concerto in G (Oct 3 & 4); with Boian Videnoff and the Mannheim Philharmonic, he performs
Schumann’s sole concerto (Feb 9); and with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, he
undertakes Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto (Dec 29–31).

Beyond North America and Germany, Trifonov reunites with the London Symphony Orchestra
and Daniel Harding for Schumann’s Concerto (Feb 2) and performs Rachmaninoff concertos
with the Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras (March 26–April 12),
as well as with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Hans Graf, in what marks his sole
Asian engagement of the season (April 18).

U.S. solo and duo recital dates

The pianist’s Russian roots and American experience come together in his new solo recital
program; alongside selected Chopin waltzes, this juxtaposes Barber’s sole Piano Sonata with
Tchaikovsky’s C-sharp minor Sonata and Concert Suite from the ballet The Sleeping Beauty,
in the arrangement by Mikhail Pletnev, whose students include Trifonov’s own teacher and
frequent piano partner, Sergei Babayan. After previewing this program in Morrow, GA (Oct 13),
Trifonov performs it for his returns to both New York’s Carnegie Hall (Oct 17) and Chicago’s
Symphony Center (Nov 17), where the appearance represents the first of his season-long
residency with the CSO. He also returns early next year to Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, with a
solo program to be announced (Feb 26).

To complete his U.S. lineup, Trifonov embarks on a high-profile recital tour with violinist
Leonidas Kavakos, who is, like him, a former Gramophone Artist of the Year. With a duo program
of Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, and Poulenc, they perform together at Washington’s Kennedy
Center (March 2), at New York’s Carnegie Hall (March 4), in Kansas City (March 7), in
Boston’s Celebrity Series (March 5), and, as part of the pianist’s CSO residency, at Chicago’s
Symphony Center (March 9).

Australian lieder tour; European solo recitals

Beyond the States, Trifonov reunites with German baritone Matthias Goerne in Australia for
lieder recitals in Sydney, Melbourne, Mount Barker, and at the Adelaide Festival (March
14–April 1). Their 2022 Deutsche Grammophon release, Songs of Love, Life and Death, was hailed
as “a magnificent recital” (Gramophone), while their live performances have been praised for
achieving a “complete symbiosis of piano and voice” (Der Spiegel, Germany).

Trifonov gives a solo recital in Prague, as part of his Czech Philharmonic residency (Sep 29), and
tours his new solo program to six great Italian and Spanish cities, with winter dates in Milan,
Rome, Naples, San Sebastian, Seville, and Barcelona (Feb 4–14), followed by spring recitals in
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, and at the Ruhr Piano Festival (May 23–28). As the Financial Times
writes: “What makes him such a phenomenon is the ecstatic quality he brings to his
performances. Small wonder every western capital is in thrall to him.”

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Daniil Trifonov: 2024-25 engagements

Sep 1–8: tour and concerts with Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Andris Nelsons
Sep 1: Essen, Germany
Sep 2: Cologne, Germany
Sep 4: Lucerne, Switzerland (Lucerne Festival)
Sep 6–8: Leipzig, Germany
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25

Sep 14
Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic at Strathmore / Joseph Young
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 1

Sep 18 & 19
Montreal, Canada
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto (Sep 18)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Sep 19)

Sep 25–27: concerts with Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov
Sep 25 & 26: Prague, Czech Republic
Sep 27: Bratislava, Slovakia
DVOŘÁK: Piano Concerto

Sep 29
Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Chamber Music Society
Solo recital:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor
CHOPIN: Selected Waltzes
BARTÓK: Piano Sonata

Oct 3 & 4
Hamburg, Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Alan Gilbert
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G

Oct 10
Houston, Texas
Houston Symphony Orchestra / Juraj Valčuha
DVOŘÁK: Piano Concerto

Oct 13 & 17: U.S. solo recitals
Oct 13: Morrow, GA
Oct 17: New York, NY (Carnegie Hall)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor
CHOPIN: Selected Waltzes
BARBER: Piano Sonata
TCHAIKOVSKY / Mikhail PLETNEV: Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty

Oct 21–Nov 5: European tour with Bamberg Symphony / Jakub Hrůša
Oct 21 & 22: Graz, Austria
Oct 24: Vienna, Austria
Oct 25: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Oct 26: Zagreb, Croatia
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Nov 2: Bamberg, Germany
Nov 4: Brno, Czech Republic
Nov 5: Linz, Austria
DVOŘÁK: Piano Concerto

Nov 17
Chicago, Illinois
Symphony Center
Solo recital:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 80
CHOPIN: Selected Waltzes
BARBER: Piano Sonata
TCHAIKOVSKY / Mikhail PLETNEV: Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty

Nov 19–30: European tour with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare
Nov 19: London, UK (Barbican Hall)
Nov 27: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Concertgebouw)
Nov 30: Vienna, Austria (Konzerthaus)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1
Nov 22: Paris, France (Philharmonie)
Nov 24: Hamburg, Germany (Elbphilharmonie)
Nov 25: Berlin, Germany (Philharmonie)
Nov 28: Munich, Germany (Isarphilharmonie)
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto

Dec 5 & 7: U.S. tour with Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov
Dec 5: New York, NY (Carnegie Hall)
Dec 7: Toronto, Canada
DVOŘÁK: Piano Concerto

Dec 29–31
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Philharmonic / Kirill Petrenko
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2

Feb 2
London, UK
London Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Harding
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto

Feb 4–6: Italian solo recital tour
Feb 4: Milan
Feb 5: Rome
Feb 6: Naples
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 80
CHOPIN: Selected Waltzes
BARBER: Piano Sonata
TCHAIKOVSKY / Mikhail PLETNEV: Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty

Feb 9
Mannheim, Germany
Mannheim Philharmonic / Boian Videnoff
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto

Feb 11–14: Spanish solo recital tour
Feb 11: San Sebastian
Feb 12: Seville
Feb 14: Barcelona
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 80
CHOPIN: Selected Waltzes
BARBER: Piano Sonata
TCHAIKOVSKY / Mikhail PLETNEV: Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty

Feb 21–23
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2

Feb 26
Philadelphia, PA
Solo recital
Program TBA

March 2–9: U.S. duo recital tour with Leonidas Kavakos, violin
March 2: Washington, DC (Kennedy Center)
March 4: New York, NY (Carnegie Hall)
March 5: Boston, MA (Celebrity Series)
March 7: Kansas City, MO (Harriman–Jewell Series)
March 9: Chicago, IL (Symphony Center)
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 4 in A minor
POULENC: Sonata for Violin and Piano
BRAHMS: Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78
BARTÓK: Rhapsody No. 1

March 14–April 1: Australian recital tour with Matthias Goerne, baritone
March 14: Adelaide (Adelaide Festival)
March 16: Mount Barker
March 25 & 30: Sydney Symphony
April 1: Melbourne
Program TBA

March 26, 28, & 29
Sydney, Australia
Sydney Symphony / conductor TBA
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 4

April 3, 5, & 7
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Symphony / Jaime Martín
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3

April 11 & 12: New Zealand concerts with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / conductor TBA
April 11: Wellington
April 12: Auckland
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3

April 18
Singapore City, Singapore
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 4

May 1–4
Chicago, IL
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Klaus Mälekä
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2

May 15–31
Leipzig, Germany
Shostakovich Festival 2025
May 15
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Andris Nelsons
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2
May 18
With Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
May 20
With Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin; Gautier Capuçon, cello
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin and Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata for Cello and Piano
May 21
With Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider & Baiba Skride, violins; Antoine Tamestit, viola; Gautier Capuçon, cello
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata for Viola and Piano
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet
May 31
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Andris Nelsons
SHOSTAKOVICH: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings (with Thomas Rolfs, trumpet)

May 23–28: European solo recitals
May 23: Frankfurt, Germany (Alte Oper)
May 24: Essen, Germany (Ruhr Piano Festival; Philharmonie)
May 26: Hamburg, Germany (Laeiszhalle)
May 28: Paris, France (Philharmonie)
Program TBA

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