Winner of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2010 and a prizewinner of the Geneva and Arthur Rubinstein (Bydgoszcz) competitions. She has worked with such orchestras and conductors as the Pittsburgh Symphony (Manfred Honeck and Mark Elder), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Gustavo Dudamel), Montreal Symphony (Kent Nagano), Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Marek Janowski), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm, Finnish Radio Orchestra (Vasily Petrenko), London Philharmonic (Vladimir Jurowski), Czech Philharmonic (Manfred Honeck), Sinfonia Varsovia (Robert Trevino), NOSPR, Warsaw Philharmonic, SWR Symphonieorchester, Dresden Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica (Gidon Kremer), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, symphony orchestras of Sydney and Melbourne, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (Sascha Goetzel), St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, with which she has toured Spain and Italy.

She has appeared at such prestigious concert halls as the Wigmore Hall in London, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Palau de la Música Catalana, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Boulez Saal in Berlin and Tonhalle in Zurich; she is a regular guest of ‘Chopin and his Europe’ and has also been invited to festivals in La Roque d’Anthéron, Rheingau, Salzburg, Lucerne and Baden-Baden, among others. She performs a great deal in the Asia–Pacific region – in recent years giving recitals and concerts with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, NHK Symphony, Deutsches Symphonieorchester of Berlin and Bamberger Symphoniker, as well as a performance with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard at the BBC Proms Japan.

In 2013 Avdeeva recorded Chopin’s piano concertos on an 1849 Erard with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Brüggen for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, which also released an album of her recordings from performances at the 2010 Chopin Competition, inaugurating its ‘Blue Series’. Three solo albums featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev have been released by Mirare (2014, 2016, 2017). Discs of chamber music recorded with Gidon Kremer have been released on ECM Records (2017) and Deutsche Grammophon (2019); DGG has also released her solo recordings in an edition dedicated to Chopin Competition winners up to 2010.

Yulianna Adveeva began learning piano at the age of five with Elena Ivanova at the Gnessin School in Moscow, before continuing her education with Konstantin Scherbakov and Vladimir Tropp, also honing her skills at the International Piano Academy Lake Como with such masters as Fou Ts’ong, Dmitry Bashkirov and William Grant Naboré.