Chopin competition winner, Yulianna AvdeevaThe New York Philharmonic is in Warsaw for tonight’s programme comprising of works by Richard Strauss, Wagner and Brahms and tomorrow with the orchestra performing music by Beethoven, Debussy, Hindemith and Chopin.
Russia’s Yulianna Avdeeva, the winner of this month’s International Chopin Piano Competition, will be appearing as soloist in Chopin’s Concerto in E-minor.
The NY Philharmonic is conducted by Alan Gilbert, its Music Director since last year. The orchestra’s visit, its first ever to Poland, is organized by the Warsaw-based National Fryderyk Chopin Institute and the Beethoven Association, founded and chaired by Elżbieta Penderecka.
Tomorrow’s concert is the first in a series of appearances in Poland and abroad of the prizewinners of the Chopin Competition.
Avdeyeva will perform again with the NY Philharmonic on 4 January 2011 in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall.
She will also appear with the NHK Orchestra of Tokyo and with the Warsaw Philharmonic during its forthcoming Japanese tour. Third Prize winner, Daniil Trifonov of Russia, gives a recital in Warsaw on 4 November and Second Prize winner and audience favourite, Ingolf Wunder of Austria, performs Chopin’s E-minor Concerto with the National Polish Radio SO in Katowice on Saturday (with Jacek Kaspszyk conducting) and is billed with a recital in Warsaw on 2 December. (mk)