Yulianna Avdeeva earned international recognition at the 2010 Chopin Competition, winning First Place with a “detailed way of playing” that “matched Chopin’s own (The Telegraph).
Her many orchestral collaborators include the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko, the London Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski, the Symphony Orchestras of Sydney and Melbourne, the SWR Symphonieorchester with Teodor Currentzis …
She has given public performances in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and she is also a regular guest at the Chopin Festivals and the La Roque-d'Anthéron International Piano Festival.
After recording the Chopin concerts with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013), Avdeeva released three solo albums with the Mirare label, including works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev (2014, 2016, 2017). Her chamber music recordings of Mieczyslaw Weinberg con Gidon Kremer have been released by ECM Records (2017), as well as Deutsche Grammophon (2019), which released a solo recording of Avdeeva as part of a collection of milestones devoted to the most notable winners of the Chopin Competition from 2017-2019.
Her latest commitments include summer concerts at the International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch (Saxon), the Piano Festival La Roque d'Anthéron, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw and the Musikfest in Bremen.
Her 2022-2023 season began with a performance at the Tippet Rise Festival in the United States, followed by a debut performance at the Carnegie Hall. She performs with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and is doing another tour with Teodor Currenti and the SWR Symphony in Munich, Hamburg and Vienna. In mid-winter she is returning to Japan with concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama and Kioto, which will be followed by concerto performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (Andris Poga), the RAI National Orchestra (Juraj Valchua), the Philharmonic of Bergen (Petr Popelka) and the Camerata Salzburg.
Foto: © Christine Schneider
Foto: © Christine Schneider