Yulianna Avdeeva
Yulianna’s 2024-25 season included a Carnegie Hall re-engagement, after her sold-out recital debut in 2023; she returned with a program of Chopin and Liszt, which she also played in Spain, Germany, the U.S., France, Austria and Italy. She also performed with the New York Philharmonic at Bravo! Vail Music Festival; made her Celebrity Series of Boston debut; gave a recital at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival; and several concerts at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival.
In partnership with the Boston Symphony, the Gewandhaus Orchestra created a Festival marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich, which featured Yulianna in performances of the entire Op. 87 in spring 2025. Besides the Gewandhaus, she performed the cycle at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin; Palau de la Música in Barcelona; Saitama Arts Center, in Tokyo; Festival de Lanaudière, in Quebec; National Centre for the Performing Arts, in Beijing; Ostrava, in the Czech Republic; and Seon, in Switzerland, among others. She made her debut with the Chicago Symphony in the 2023-24 season.
Yulianna recently released three albums on PENTATONE: Resilience (2023); Chopin: Voyage (2024); and a complete recording of Shostakovich’s Op. 87 (2025). Her recordings of the Chopin concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013); three solo albums featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Prokofiev (2014, 2016, 2017); collaboration with Gidon Kremer in Weinberg’s chamber music (2017 and 2019); and Deutsche Grammophon solo recording (2015) are a formidable record of her art.
In 2025 Yulianna launched the online project #AvdeevaShostakovichProject, discussing and playing each of the 24 Preludes and Fugues. The project accompanied #YuliannasMusicalDialogues, an open space for her followers to share their passion for music. Piano aficionados also enjoyed Yulianna’s online educational project #AvdeevaBachProject, which she offered throughout the Covid-19 lockdown, gaining over half a million views.
