Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony
$15-$55
- Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
- James Conlon, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 "Jupiter"
From the impassioned minor-key symphony he wrote at 17 to his crowning symphonic achievement named for the king of the Roman gods, Mozart’s scores for orchestra are as faultless and brilliant as sparkling diamonds. Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, First Prize winner at the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, joins the BSO to play Mozart’s dynamic Piano Concerto No. 23, packing an opera’s worth of dialogue and excitement into three vivacious movements.
2 performances:
- Saturday, January 6, 8pm at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
- Sunday, January 7, 3pm at The Music Center at Strathmore
About Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Yulianna Avdeeva gained worldwide recognition at the 2010 Chopin Competition, where she won First Prize with a "detailed way of playing" that "matched Chopin's own" (The Telegraph). A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, Avdeeva plays with power, conviction, and sensibility, having won over audiences all over the world.
A favorite artist in Europe with recurring concert engagements at the Warsaw Philharmonic or Rudolfinum in Prague, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Yulianna has also given concerts for Ukrainian Relief, including one together with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Lucerne Chamber Music Festival.
Among her other extensive orchestral collaborators are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Finnish and Danish Radio Symphonies, Czech Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Kremerata Baltica, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, KBS Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony.
Piano aficionados around the world also enjoy her educational online streaming project, the #AvdeevaBachProject, which she started during the lockdown gaining more than half a million views.
http://www.avdeevapiano.com/