Following her sensational win at the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2010, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva has given debut performances with the New York Phil in Warsaw and New York, and with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.
Other highlights in her so far illustrious career, have included performances with the Czech Phil, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Upcoming debuts include a performance with the LPO conducted by Jurowski and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.
She is known for performing on period instruments; in August 2011 and 2012, she performed Chopin’s Concertos on an Erard piano at the Festival of ‘Chopin and his Europe’ with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the 18th century with Frans Bruggen.
The instrument she performs on this recording is an Erard piano made in Paris in 1849, and she is accompanied by Orchestra of the 18th Century conducted by Frans Bruggen.
Bruggen was once the world’s most famous recorder-player, but these days is better known as one of the foremost experts in the performance of eighteenth century music.
The recording itself forms one of the most exciting surveys of Chopin’s music and is a truly stunning performance from this talented young Russian pianist and the Orchestra of the 18th Century.
