Hailed by The Times as “without question the most astounding pianist of our age,” Daniil Trifonov won a Grammy Award in 2018, was Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, and has seven albums in Billboard’s Top classical Album charts. After performing Pictures at an Exhibition in the Festival’s virtual season in 2020, Trifonov will appear in person to play Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a work conceived amidst the pressure the composer felt in living up to the expectations of his mentor, Robert Schumann. A vision from a dream inspired Brahms to transform a modest work for two solo pianos into a piano concerto, pairing the soloist and orchestra as equal partners. The result is a quintessential Brahms masterpiece, full of complexity and ambition, and following the model of great concertos by Beethoven and Mozart.