Yulianna Avdeeva is a Russian concert pianist

Pianist

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.

Beginning her studies at the age of five, she studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music

Gnessin State Musical College

The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...

 in Moscow

Moscow

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, and graduated from Zürcher

Zürich

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 Hochschule der Künste. After her graduation, she became assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov

Konstantin Scherbakov

Konstantin Scherbakov is a Russian pianist. He was the winner of the first Rachmaninov Competition in 1983...

. Since 2008 Avdeeva studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como

International Piano Academy Lake Como

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. She has received outstanding international recognition as the winner of First Prize of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw

Warsaw

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, 2010). She is the fourth female to have won this title, after Halina Czerny-Stefańska

Halina Czerny-Stefanska

Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a Polish pianist.She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw...

, Bella Davidovich

Bella Davidovich

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 (ex aequo in 1949) and Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich

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 (1965).

Awards

• 2006 - 61st Geneva International Music Competition
  Geneva International Music Competition
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   (Geneva
  Geneva
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  ) - 2nd Prize.
• 2007 - 7th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition (Bydgoszcz) - 2nd prize.
• 2010 - 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
  ) - 1st prize and best performance of a sonata.