About
Yulianna Avdeeva is a Russian concert classical pianist who has performed and recorded internationally.
Yulianna Avdeeva is one of the successful young Russian pianists, whose art is in demand at home and abroad. People started talking about her after her triumph at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010, which opened the doors of the best concert halls in the world for the performer.Immediately after the competition, Yulianna was invited to perform with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit. In subsequent seasons, she played with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck at the conductor's stand, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Tugan Sokhiev, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Fedoseyev. Yulianna Avdeeva's solo performances are also popular with the public. They take place in such venues as the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre in London, Gaveau in Paris, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Moscow International House of Music. The pianist has participated in major music festivals: in Rheingau in Germany, in La Roque d'Anthéron in France, "Faces of Modern Pianism" in St. Petersburg, "Chopin and His Europe" in Warsaw. In the summer of 2017, she debuted with a solo concert at the Ruhr Piano Festival, as well as at the Salzburg Festival, where she played with the Mozarteum Orchestra. Critics note the musician's high skill, the depth of her concepts and the originality of her interpretations. “An artist who can make the piano sing,” was how the British magazine Gramophone described her art (2005). “She makes music breathe,” wrote the Financial Times (2011), and the renowned magazine Piano News noted: “She plays with a sense of melancholy, fantasy and nobility” (2014).