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 ...

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — A jury of the world’s leading pianists awarded this year’s Chopin Piano Competition to Russian Yulianna Avdeeva, the first woman to win the prestigious classical music ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Russian musician Yulianna Avdeeva has become the first woman in 45 years to win the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. Ms Avdeeva, 25, who won £26,506, said she had been working ...

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 ...

In 2010 Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman to win the Chopin Piano Competition in 45 years (following in the footsteps of Martha Argerich, who won in 1965), though she was not the winner anyone ...

American Youth Symphony and National Children’s Chorus Works by Duruflé, Fauré, Stravinsky and Scriabin, plus the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s “The Right of Your Senses”; with soprano Jessica Rivera ...