Le Devoir: YulianNa Avdeeva Performs with Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Yulianna Avdeeva, the Gold Medalist of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, appeared last week with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, performing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Australian conductor Simone Young. Reviewing the concert for the French-language newspaper Le Devoir, critic Christophe Huss writes:

In Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, conductor and soloist were perfectly in sync. Avdeeva is certainly not one to mince words: she conducts with precision, finesse, and great musicality. Her perfectly polished performance of the concerto is concise and to the point: the playing is fluid, crystalline, and limpid, devoid of any artifice... The result is an impeccable concert that gets to the heart of the music without losing its way. We love it.

Read the full review here.