Julianna Andreevna Avdeeva

Yulianna Awdejewa (2010), next to her Polish President Bronisław Komorowski

Yulianna Andrejewna Avdejewa ( Russian Юлианна Андреевна Авдеева , English Yulianna Avdeeva ; born July 3, 1985 in Moscow ) is a Russian concert pianist.

Career

She began her lessons at the age of five, attended the state Gnessin music school in Moscow and completed her training at the Zurich University of the Arts . After graduating, she became the assistant to her teacher Konstantin Scherbakov . Since 2008 she has been studying at the International Piano Academy on Lake Como .

She received international recognition as the winner of the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010. She is the fourth woman to have won this prize since Halina Czerny-Stefańska , Bella Davidovich ( ex aequo 1949) and Martha Argerich (1965).

Awards

• 2003 - 9th International Bremen Piano Competition ( Bremen ) - 2nd place
• 2006 - 61st Geneva International Music Competition ( Geneva ) - 2nd place.
• 2007 - 7th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition ( Bydgoszcz ) - 2nd place.
• 2010 - 16th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition ( Warsaw ) - 1st place and the best performance of a sonata

Discography

After winning the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 2010, the Mirare label released Yulianna Avdejewa's CD debut in 2014. In February 2016, a further recording with works by Mozart, Chopin and Liszt was released on the Mirare label, and in October 2017 a new CD with a selected program with works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

• 2014: Franz Schubert : Three Piano Pieces D 946; Sergej Prokofieff : Piano Sonata No. 7; Frédéric Chopin : 24 Préludes op.28 (Mirare 252, 2 CDs; Distribution: Harmonia Mundi)
• 2016: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, KV 284; Frédéric Chopin : Fantaisie in F minor op. 49; Franz Liszt : Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata; Aida di Giuseppe Verdi - Danza sacra e duetto finale p. 436
• 2017: Johann Sebastian Bach - Yulianna Avdeeva: English Suite No. 2 in A minor , BWV 807; Toccata in D major , BWV 912; Overture in the French style in B minor, BWV 831

Web links

Commons : Yulianna Avdejewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yulianna Avdeeva at Discogs (English)
• Yulianna Awdejewa in an interview with the Swiss classic portal Classicpoint.net
• Yulianna Avdejewa's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yulianna Avdeeva (PDF; 207 kB) Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2010. 
2. ↑ Fryderyk Chopin - Information Center - Yulianna Avdeeva - biography . Retrieved July 29, 2013.
3. ↑ Results of the competition ( English ) Archived from the original on December 9, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 29, 2013. 
4. ^ Piano News . Edition 6/2014, Staccato-Verlag, p. 102.