Winner of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010, esteemed by audiences and critics for her virtuosity, powerful expression, exceptional sensitivity and distinctive temperament. Avdeeva performs regularly at such venues as the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus and Muzikverein, and Rudolfinum in Prague, and at festivals in Salzburg and Gstaad. She recently performed in the Shostakovich Festival at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and forthcoming plans include a European tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. In past seasons, she has also enjoyed success at Carnegie Hall, and her most recent concerts in North America have included performances with the New York Philharmonic at the Bravo! Vail festival, recitals at the Rockport and Lanaudiere festivals, and concerts at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival with violinist James Ehnes. She regularly appears at the ‘Chopin and his Europe’ festival. She has worked with leading orchestras, including the radio symphony orchestras of Berlin and Frankfurt, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Kremerata Baltica, under the batons of such conductors as Manfred Honeck, Gustavo Dudamel, Marin Alsop, Robert Treviño, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Juraj Valčuha, Marek Janowski, Vasily Petrenko and Vladimir Jurowski. Her discography includes both of Chopin’s concertos, released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, recorded on fortepiano with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Bruggen (2013), and an album with recordings of her performances during the Chopin Competition in 2010, as well as discs with chamber music by Weinberg, in collaboration with Gidon Kremer (2017 and 2019), and three albums for Pentatone, where she is currently an exclusive artist: Resilience (2023), with works by Weinberg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Szpilman, Voyage (2024), with the late works of Chopin, and Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues (2025). Coming next year will be an album of works by Ferenc Liszt.