Chopin and Brahms: Masters of Romanticism 2025-2026
Discover the brilliant pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, winner of the prestigious 2010 Chopin Competition, as she brings her masterful technique and poetic sensitivity to Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Her expressive depth and refinement promise to illuminate every note. Meanwhile, Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ Quartet Op. 25 enhances its richness while remaining true to its original spirit—a transformation Brahms himself would have appreciated!
Voices from the press
« Simone Young delivers an interpretation to the enthusiastic audience that never ceases to be exciting. […] The music resonates in all its facets, captivating and touching. » – Klassik begeistert
Artists
Simone Young, conductor
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Program
Frederic Chopin, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 11 (43 min)
Intermission
Johannes Brahms, Quartet for Piano and Strings No. 1, Op. 25 (orch. A. Schoenberg) (43 min)
Simone Young
ConductorAustralian conductor Simone Young is numbered among the most important conductors of our time. Since 2022, she has served as Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where she is currently conducting, among other projects, a concert performance cycle of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen. In 2024, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival with this monumental work and returned in summer 2025 to conduct two further complete cycles.
Simone Young also leaves a strong mark in the symphonic repertoire and will conduct in the 25/26 season the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and, during a U.S. tour, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Simone Young is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, an honorary doctorate from the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and is a Member of the Order of Australia and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France. She has also been awarded the Goethe Medal and the Brahms Prize of Schleswig-Holstein. In April 2022, she was awarded honorary membership of the Vienna State Opera.
Yulianna Avdeeva
pianoYulianna 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.
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