Yulianna Avdeeva burst on to the international stage upon winning the Gold Medal of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition.
Now acknowledged around the world, Yulianna’s current season includes concerto appearances with Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester and Andris Nelsons in Leipzig, Vienna, Frankfurt, Beijing and Shanghai, concerts with Deutches Symphonie-Orchester and Santtu-Matias Rouvali in Berlin, and Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and Simone Young. Other North American engagements include the Pittsburgh and Seattle Symphonies with Rafael Payare and David Danzmayr respectively.
Yulianna’s current and recurring recital engagements include Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, tours of Asia and North America and a return to Carnegie Hall in 2027.
A frequent recording artist of works by Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Weinberg, Yulianna’s most recent PENTATONE recordings are: Resilience (2023) featuring works of Weinberg, Szpilman, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich; Chopin: Voyage (2024) for which she received the 2025 Diapason d’Or award; and a complete recording of Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (2025). An album of works of Franz Liszt will come in 2026.
Yulianna Avdeeva is a Steinway Artist.