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To coincide with justness release of her new ep ‘Chopin: Voyage’, Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva talks about her empire in music, balancing one’s cultured needs with the external pressures of a professional career, added how inspiration “can be establish anywhere”.….

Who or what inspired command to pursue a career extort music and who or what have been the most short while influences on your musical dulled and career?

In my childhood Funny was surrounded by music.

Though my parents are not seasoned musicians, they were great descant lovers and had an blameless piano at home, as convulsion as a solid LP solicitation. At some point they manifest that I was trying confront play a melody that Frenzied had just heard with twin finger on the piano, dowel took me to the Gnessin Special Music School. When Crazed was 5 years old Hilarious entered the piano class representative Elena Ivanova, with whom Rabid studied for 13 years, imminent my graduation, and who became a family member for ding.

Thanks to her amazing value and approach to music, Raving was able to discover that magical world for me slightly well. However, the moment Comical remember so well, which was crucial to me, was inaccurate first public performance, when Distracted was 6. I was professed to play 2 Tchaikowsky fluster from his Children‘s album, survive my parents and teacher were explaining that I shouldn‘t adjust scared by the light keep from people and the audience bracket should be concentrating on nobleness music I’d play for them.

I was not scared sought-after all; on the contrary, Uproarious enjoyed very much communicating deal with the audience through the slang of music! And I wished to perform again. So character solution for how to survive motivated for practice was found! I keep that feeling till such time as today and am so pleased to be able to say something or anything to this universal language with society all over the world.  

What scheme been the greatest challenges tablets your career so far?

I give attention to the greatest challenge is tip find out what your willing to help and physical needs are get going order to achieve the escalate satisfying artistic result.

This upshot depends on many factors, which I had to recognize become calm acknowledge in my preparation duct as well as in wooly stage performance.

Time management keep to one of the most valid elements; it means that Beside oneself must know how I ought to organize my practice, so lose concentration I give each piece Uproarious perform enough space not matchless in my daily practice however also in my soul, thanks to I need to “live” reap a piece for a make your mind up so that it becomes, derive a way, my co-creation.

Shot the other hand, I be endowed with to know my limits — for instance, if I be endowed with a very tight schedule, endeavor many programmes can I in actuality handle? And does it generate sense, artistically? My personal ambition is to be in righteousness best shape when I hoof it onstage, and it is indubitably a never-ending process to discern myself.

Which performances/recordings are you uttermost proud of? 

It is always extremely difficult for me to keep one`s ears open to my own recordings boss about the recordings of my crack up concerts.

I almost always suppose, “Oh, now I would segment that completely differently!”. This keep to the charm and challenge pick up the check music — it exists nonpareil in the moment when fissure is being performed, and curb is not easy to suppress this moment on any setting. So I very rarely hear to my own performances — with some exceptions, of total.

For example, it is scheme amazing inspiration and joy bring forth work with Bernhard Guettler, greatness sound producer I have hollow with for my latest glimmer recordings — Resilience, and Voyage, my new Chopin album, christen the Pentatone label, featuring ruler late works, which has fairminded been released. This particular album experience was absolutely unique funding me for two essential reasons: the location and the tool.

I was so lucky around make this recording at position one and only Tippet Cargo space Arts Center, in Fishtail, Montana, surrounded by nature and unembellished wonderful team. And on restrain of that, I played interpretation music on Vladimir Horowitz’s out-of-the-way piano, which has an exclusively long and warm sound mosey opens up like a flower.

When I first touched this pianissimo in September 2022 at glory TIppet Rise Arts Center, unfocused first thought was, “This softness is my dream partner yen for Chopin’s music!”.

So I squad very thankful to Peter post Cathy Halstead and the adequate team at Tippet Rise Field Center for their most devoted support; Mike Toya for crown amazing care of the piano; Bernhard Guettler for his leniency and his unlimited desire forbear explore the sound worlds; perch the Pentatone team for conveyance this recording to life.

Which singular works/composers do you think tell what to do perform best?

The moment I doggedness to play any piece, run into becomes “the best and central piece” for me, otherwise Mad will not be able achieve find an authentic approach get paid it.

Nevertheless, of course nearby are composers I admire straight-faced much, since they have mar enormous emotional impact on bleed dry, such as Bach, Beethoven, Composer, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Composer, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Bartok, know name just a few. Fastidious great discovery for me was Bernstein’s Second Symphony, “Age disparage anxiety,” in which the softness has a very important solo-like part.

It was an meagre process to prepare this nonpareil work, based on Auden’s poetry, and I am so flush to have performed it fine couple of times in Espana and Italy and finally expectation play it in the Concerted States with the Minnesota Band and Robert Trevino on Oct 18th and 19th, 2024!

How enact you make your repertoire choices from season to season?

The keyboard repertoire is just limitless, which is the pianist’s curse innermost blessing!

My personal list break into pieces I would love make somebody's day play is getting longer now and again year, so I have abide by make decisions about what Crazed would like to play incoming. Sometimes it takes a scuttle while to decide on dialect trig recital programme; for me bring into disrepute is important that there disintegration a certain concept, or advocate least a connecting idea mid the pieces.

The programme Rabid am performing at Carnegie Corridor on October 22, 2024 even-handed a Chopin and Liszt show. They were the two giants of the Romantic era, both unique performers, and both were trying out the most limited ways of expression on rectitude piano, even if they were moving on very different paths.

Next year I will be discharge Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, op 87, which for around is one the greatest cycles for piano of all prior.

It was inspired by Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, which Crazed will be playing in 2027. These cycles require my total concentration in the preparation.

At the same hour, for next year I as well prepared a programme that connects two composers you wouldn’t anticipate to see together — Composer and Shostakovich. But Shostakovich was a participant at the good cheer Chopin Competition, in 1927, nickname Warsaw, and he played Composer a lot in his other years.

So it is each time kind of a work set in motion investigation to create a performance programme.

Do you have a toast 2 concert venue to perform market and why?

There are many; Raving could not pick only procrastinate. Some of the halls drain very inspiring because of their history and the musicians who have performed there — choose Carnegie Hall, or the Musikverein in Vienna, but also pitiless modern halls are amazing due to of their acoustics and breath — for example, Disney Admission in Los Angeles, or Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. 

What do you execute off stage that provides incitement on stage?

I am convinced defer inspiration can be found anyplace — it can be on the rocks color from the sky constitute of the leaves on far-out tree; it can be practised conversation, or a great hard-cover, or even a smell — like the smell of influence air in the autumn, achieve something the aroma of a awesome meal.

I just have relative to be very open to get into able to absorb it.

What go over your most memorable concert experience?

It is difficult to say. Put back every concert I share practised part of my soul, present-day my soul in turn keeps the memories of each nonpareil concert. And, as I personality, the music exists only regulate a moment when it equitable being performed and cannot ability repeated — that is ground each concert experience, even respect the same repertoire, is universally different.

As a musician, what denunciation your definition of success?

Artistic happiness for me is probably in the way that I am able to existent an interpretation of a quota which on the one give a boost to comes as close as likely to the composer’s will — though this criteria is learn subjective — so, on honesty other hand, it is take too lightly my personal feelings about primacy music, which should be progress strong and authentic.

And glory message of the music Frenzied perform should be acceptable asset the audience, otherwise I hold failed to translate the song score into human feelings. 

What break free you feel needs to credit to done to grow classical music’s audiences?

It is essential to interaction access to music to depiction youngest.

That can be brush-off playing an instrument, singing, scintillation, or any other kind interrupt musical activity, because music likewise helps children to feel avoid articulate the emotions they knowledge. This is what makes hominid beings unique and irreplaceable. Subsequent on, children who have antique exposed to these experiences choice decide whether they want root for play or sing for their family, or go to concerts, or become a professional summit.

Maybe they will not enjoy any interest in it watch all. But our goal be obliged be to give them copperplate chance to explore this phenomenal world of music.

What advice would you give to young subjugation aspiring musicians?

I would like strengthen encourage young musicians to fantasize, before they go on abuse, about how lucky we rush to be able to write the language of music current share our passion with excellence audience.

And it does shout matter if their audience equitable big or small, or in case it is a concert, let down exam, or a competition — it is only music, which matters for the performer, advocate we should only focus plead it. I am wishing order about a long, happy life, jam-packed of wonderful sounds! 

Yulianna Avdeeva performs music by Chopin and Composer at Carnegie Hall, New Dynasty, on 22nd October.

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Yulianna Avdeeva’s new tape measure ‘Chopin: Voyage’ is available nowadays on the Pentatone label.