As the Philharmonic’s artist in residence this season, he will follow the Scriabin with a chamber music concert at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday — a program ending with the New York premiere of his “Quintetto Concertante” — and, in the spring, a solo recital and Mozart concerto. So he will be home a lot more than usual, taking a Citi Bike to work.

Mr. Trifonov practices inside his apartment, in a large Battery Park City tower. His piano can be heard from the hallway, though most of his neighbors don’t know they’re listening to one of the world’s most distinguished pianists. He’s thankful he hasn’t received any complaints — except for a time when he was playing Stockhausen’s “Klavierstück IX,” which begins with the same chord repeated well over 100 times. A woman knocked on his door, asking him to please stop.

He has already tried to schedule significant amount of stretches in New York, giving himself two-month breaks from touring to practice at home. (“Any tour longer than three weeks starts to weigh down, psychologically,” Mr. Trifonov said. “Living out of a suitcase is not something I enjoy.”) He sometimes also adds down time between performances if he’s in Russia, to visit his parents in Moscow.

It was in Moscow that he began to study with Tatiana Zelikman; they would end lessons by listening to a recording of whatever he was working on at the time, performed by a great pianist like Vladimir Horowitz. Then she would have Mr. Trifonov play the piece again. “That would open up a lot of new ways of looking,” he recalled.