Throughout their lyrical renditions of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 on April 20, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, conductor Tugan Sokhiev and Chicago Symphony Orchestra ...

Against the lustrous backdrop of Lake Michigan, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva took the Galvin Recital Hall audience on a journey of imagination and rumination through the music of Frédéric Chopin and ...

In Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, Yulianna Avdeeva commands attention through sheer innate charisma, anchored in ...

Spell-binding Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva finds the tender vulnerability beneath the poised virtuosity of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1. The nocturnal core of this concerto is a Romanza of rapt ...

When Yulianna Avdeeva made her debut in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2010, her programme consisted entirely of Chopin, obvious enough for a pianist who a few months before had been the first woman to ...

When Yulianna Avdeeva won the Chopin Piano Competition in 2010, she became only the fourth woman ever to do so -- and the first in 45 years, since Martha Argerich’s legendary victory in 1965. In 2025, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Nothing was going to stop this recital, whatever fate put in its way. Only two weeks separated the final of the 2010 ...

At age 25 in 2010, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman to win first prize at the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw since Martha Argerich did in 1965, competing in what ...

Critics like to make up their own minds about things. Even so, it never hurts to overhear a spot of post-concert chatter. "That was perfectly exhausting," whispered one woman to another after Yulianna ...

Yulianna Avdeeva, fresh from her triumph in the International Chopin Piano Competition, gave a recital of impressive steely control at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Rating: * * * * The 25-year-old Russian ...