19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert Filharmonia Narodowa

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19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert

2.10
Thursday / 20:00
Concert Hall
Guest Concert, Symphonic Concert, Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition
Performers:
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrzej Boreyko
conductor
Dang Thai Son
piano
Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu
piano
Yulianna Avdeeva
piano
Garrick Ohlsson
piano
Fryderyk Chopin
Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1 (orch. Grzegorz Fitelberg) [4']
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major 'Egyptian', Op. 103 [29']
Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for 4 harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (performed on 4 pianos)
19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert

organiser: Fryderyk Chopin Institute

From 2 to 23 October 2025, the Warsaw Philharmonic will host one of the world's most important piano competitions – the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which in 2025 is held for the nineteenth time .

The three-stage competition auditions will begin on 3 October, and the day before, on 2 October, the official opening of the Competition will take place. The symphony concert will be conducted by Andrzej Boreyko, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will accompany the outstanding pianists, winners of previous editions of the Competition. Bruce Liu, Yulianna Avdeeva, Garrick Ohlsson and Dang Thai Son will perform together as soloists in Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Four Harpsichords (performed on four pianos) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme will also include Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, Camille Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 and Fryderyk Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 (in a orchestral version).

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Boreyko will accompany the Competition Finalists on 18, 19 and 20 October and during the prize-winners' concerts on 21, 22 and 23 October.


All information about the auditions – the schedule and auditions – can be found here: chopincompetition.pl

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Yulianna Avdeeva

piano

After successes at the European Piano Competition Bremen, the Concours de Geneve, Yulianna Avdeeva’s win of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010 marked the beginning of her international career.

Yulianna Avdeeva’s current 2023/2024 season is marked with impressive collaborations, featuring performances with renowned orchestras and conductors. She will be joining Joana Mallwitz and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tugan Sokhiev and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, as well as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with Andrzej Boreyko, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Petr Popelka, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with James Conlon. She will also embark on a tour with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in Japan, make a return to the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai with Robert Trevino and is also scheduled to perform with the prestigious Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Tugan Sokhiev.

Yulianna Avdeeva has collaborated with orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra, L’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, as well as with orchestras in the United States including Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Montreal. She has performed under the direction of conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Sir Mark Elder, Gustavo Dudamel, Marin Alsop, Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Vasily Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski, and Robert Trevino.

Yulianna Avdeeva began her musical education at the age of five at the Gnessin School of Music for Gifted Children in Moscow with Elena Ivanova. She later studied with Vladimir Tropp and Konstantin Scherbakov and received valuable musical inspiration at the renowned International Piano Academy Lake Como from Dmitri Bashkirov, William Grant Naboré, and Fou Ts’ong.

 

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