Yulianna Avdeeva & Franz Schubert Filharmonia

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Image courtesy of Palau de la Música Catalana.

The extraordinary Yulianna Avdeeva, who in 2010 became the first woman in more than four decades to win the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, makes her debut with the Franz Schubert Filharmonia in Chopin’s majestic Piano Concerto No. 1. This work, full of Romantic virtuosity, will no doubt be approached by Avdeeva with the interpretative depth and stylistic elegance for which she is renowned.

In the second part, Tomàs Grau will lead the orchestra through the effervescent and sumptuous orchestration of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé and the composer’s endlessly mesmerizing Boléro. An unmissable appointment with musical excellence.

The Chopin Competition in Warsaw is held only once every five years, and winning it means joining the ranks of the world’s greatest interpreters of the most international of Polish composers. Yulianna Avdeeva won the coveted first prize in 2010—the first woman to do so since Martha Argerich in 1965—and has since enjoyed a stellar career. Chopin’s music is pure Romanticism, and his First Piano Concerto is utterly seductive. Hearing it performed by an artist of Avdeeva’s stature is a true privilege.

The year 2025 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, composer of one of the most popular orchestral works in the world: Boléro. What began as a musical experiment—Ravel himself referred to it as “an orchestral fabric without any music in it”—became a brilliant, imaginative and hypnotic work, whose steady rhythm has been heard in concert halls around the globe.

Program

• F. Chopin: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1, op. 11
• M. Ravel: Suite no. 2 of Daphnis et Chloé
• M. Ravel: Bolero

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