Yulianna Avdeeva is a Russian pianist. She was born on July 3, 1985, in Moscow.
From the age of five she studied at the Gnessin Moscow Special Secondary Music School in the class of Elena Ivanova, and later graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College. She then studied at the Russian Academy of Music with V. M. Tropp, and later graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts, where she studied with Konstantin Scherbakov and worked as an assistant in his class.
Beginning in 1994, Avdeeva became a prizewinner of various children's and youth performance competitions. She was also a scholarship recipient of the federal targeted program “Gifted Children.” She later became a laureate of numerous international competitions, including piano competitions in Bremen in 2003 and Geneva in 2006.
In 2010 she won the sixteenth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, also receiving an additional prize for the best performance of a sonata. She was named a member of the jury of the 19th Chopin Competition in 2025.
Avdeeva performs in Russia and in other countries around the world, including Poland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Belgium, the United States, Japan, Israel, and South Africa. Her discography mentioned in the article includes recordings of Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor, Sonata in B-flat minor, Mazurkas, and a recording featuring works by Schubert, Prokofiev, and Chopin.
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