Daniil Trifonov returns to the Chicago Symphony (Jan 29–Feb 1), where he was the 2024-25 artist-in-residence, to perform Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. He then plays Brahms’s Second with France’s Orchestre national de Lyon under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (Feb 27 & 28), the Netherlands’ Rotterdam Philharmonic under Lahav Shani (May 21 & 22), and Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Daniel Harding at concerts in the Italian capital and on tour in Vienna, Munich, and Hamburg (March 12–20).

To complete his spring concert lineup, Trifonov plays Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with Portland’s Oregon Symphony under David Danzmayr (April 16) and Saint-Saëns’s Second Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Xian Zhang (April 23 & 25). He returns to Carnegie Hall for a special Gala Evening.