Known for winning first prize at the 2010 Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition, Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva was born in Moscow on July 3, 1985. Trained at the keyboard from the age of five, she studied successively at the Gnessin School in Moscow, then at the University of Zurich with Konstantin Sherbakov (2006-2009) and at the International Piano Academy on Lake Como with master Dmitri Bashkirov, former professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In October 2010, following further awards at the Rubinstein Competition (2002), the Geneva Competition (2006) and the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Competition (2007), she became the fourth woman in 45 years to win first prize at Warsaw's prestigious Frédéric-Chopin Competition, as well as the prize for best sonata interpretation. Her recorded performances appeared the following year, followed two years later by her interpretation of Chopin's two piano concertos with Frans Brüggen and the Orchestre du XVIIIe Siècle. For the Mirare label, she recorded the albums Chopin, Schubert & Prokofiev (2014), Chopin. Mozart. Liszt (2016) and, outside her usual Romantic register, Johann Sebastian Bach (2017). In 2019, she collaborates on Gidon Kremer's album Weinberg: Chamber Music, before signing for PentaTone the recitals Resilience (2023) and Chopin Voyage (2024). In 2025, her interpretation of Shostakovich's twenty-four preludes and fugues was released, once again to critical acclaim.
