Musical Excellence
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 is a work full of Romantic virtuosity, which Avdeeva will no doubt approach with the interpretative depth and stylistic elegance for which she is renowned.
In the second part, Tomàs Grau will lead us through the effervescent and sumptuous orchestration of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé and the same composer’s endlessly mesmerising Boléro. An unmissable appointment with musical excellence.
Musical Passion
The Chopin Competition in Warsaw is only held once every five years and winning it means joining the ranks of the world’s greatest interpreters of that 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 since then has enjoyed a stellar career. Chopin’s music is pure Romanticism and his First Piano Concerto is utterly seductive. To hear it played by an artist of Avdeeva’s stature is a true privilege.
2025 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, the 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, hypnotic work, whose steady rhythm must have been heard in every concert hall on the planet.
