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ROMEO AND JULIET
About the Artists
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Friday, February 14, 2020, 8:15 pm
Sunday, February 16, 2020, 3 pm
Off The Cuff
Marin Alsop, conductor
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, op. 21
Maestoso
Larghetto

Allegro vivace

Yulianna Avdeeva
INTERMISSION
Pieces by Chopin and Mozart are included on the February 13
and February 16 performances only.
Sergei Prokofiev
Suite from Romeo and Juliet, op. 64

Montagues and Capulets
Scene

Morning Dance

Young Juliet
Masks

Friar Laurence
Dance

Death of Tybalt

Dance of the Antilles Girls
Aubade

Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb

Juliet’s Death
The intermission on Thursday and Sunday will last 20 minutes. The concert
will end at approximately 10 pm on Thursday, 9 pm on Friday, 7:45 pm on
Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday.
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Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 8 pm
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 7 pm Off The Cuff
Yulianna
Avdeeva
Described by the
Financial Times as an
artist who is “able to
let the music breathe,”
Yulianna Avdeeva gained international
recognition when she won First Prize in the
Chopin Competition in 2010.
Avdeeva’s artistic integrity is rapidly
ensuring her a place among the most
distinctive artists of her generation.
Following her Los Angeles Philharmonic
debut with Gustavo Dudamel in May
2019, Avdeeva ventures on a dynamic
2019-20 season, which includes debuts with
Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
and a return to the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra. Recent highlights have included
debuts at the Salzburg Festival, Alte Oper
Frankfurt and Lucerne Festival; a tour of
Germany with the Academy of St Martin in
the Fields; and engagements with the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin
Radio Symphony Orchestra and London
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Avdeeva’s Chopin performances have
drawn particular praise, marking her
out as one of the composer’s foremost
interpreters. Her long association with
the Fryderyk Chopin Institute has won
her a huge following in Poland, and she
is a regular performer with the Warsaw
Philharmonic and Polish National Radio
Symphony orchestras. Avdeeva recorded
the Chopin concertos with the Orchestra of
the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen
and a solo recording as part of a milestone
collection dedicated to the brightest winners
of the Chopin Competition between 1927
and 2010 on Deutsche Grammophon.
A committed chamber musician, she has
worked with the Philharmonia Quartet and
regularily tours throughout Europe with
violinists Julia Fischer and Gidon Kremer.
Avdeeva began her piano studies at the age
of five with Elena Ivanova at Moscow’s
Gnessin Special School of Music and later
studied with Scherbakov and Tropp. At the