Yulianna Avdeeva

Who is Yulianna Avdeeva?

Yulianna Andrejewna Avdeeva is a Russian concert pianist.

Avdeeva started piano lessons at the age of five, studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow, and graduated from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. After her graduation, she became assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov. Since 2008 Avdeeva has studied at the International Piano Academy Lake Como. She has received outstanding international recognition as the winner of First Prize of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. She is the fourth female to have won this title, after Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Bella Davidovich and Martha Argerich.