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- Shostakovich: Selections from Preludes & Fugues Op. 87
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- Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28
Yulianna Avdeeva
A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, Yulianna Avdeeva is the First Prize winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, which launched her to international fame for “consistently [leading] the field, in terms of sheer passion and musicianship, not to mention technical security,” in performances that were “full of depth and colour” (The Telegraph). In 2022 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette praised Avdeeva a “one-woman powerhouse of epic stature.”
After her sold-out recital debut at Carnegie Hall in early 2023, Avdeeva returns to Carnegie in October 2024 with a program of Chopin and Liszt, including Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor. She will also play that program on stages in Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and Seattle.
In Boston she will perform Liszt and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata; at Festival Lanaudière she will perform Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87; and at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival she will perform Shostakovich and Chopin.
In spring 2025, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death, Avdeeva performs the composer’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, at Gewandhaus in Leipzig as part of a Shostakovich festival with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in partnership with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She will also play the cycle at Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin; Palau de la Música in Barcelona and Madrid; in Ostrava, Czech Republic; and in Seon, Switzerland.
Chamber music highlights of her 2024–25 season include Alfred Schnittke’s Quintet with members of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival; Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings and Concerto Grosso No. 6 with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica; and a trio tour with Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott at the Rheingau Music Festival, Kissinger Sommer, and London’s Wigmore Hall.
Orchestral highlights include performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Pacific Symphony; Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with The Florida Orchestra and Tokyo’s NHK Orchestra; Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety with the RAI Italian Radio Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra; Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; and Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.
A recording artist, Avdeeva released the album Resilience in 2023, featuring music by Szpilman, Weinberg, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. Her album Voyage, featuring the late works of Chopin, will be released in September 2024; a recording of Shostakovich’s Op. 87 follows in spring 2025 (all three on Pentatone). Her discography also includes Chopin concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013), three solo albums (2014, 2016, 2017), collaborations in Weinberg’s chamber music with Gidon Kremer (2017 and 2019), and a 2019 Deutsche Grammophon solo recording as part of a collection dedicated to Chopin Competition Gold Medalists.