Subscription Concerts 2024-2025Program A
No. 2039 Subscription (Program A)

Born in Leningrad (present day St. Petersburg) in 1932, Vladimir Fedoseyev studied at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In 1974, he assumed the positions of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra (now the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra), with which he visited Japan in the following year for the first time. He has led this orchestra, one of the leading orchestras of Russia, for half a century (as Artistic Director, but stepped down from Chief Conductor in February 2025). He also worked with the Wiener Symphoniker from 1997 to 2004 as its Principal Conductor.
He also enjoys a close relationship with Japanese orchestras, and assumed the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic in 1996, and was presented the title of Honorary Conductor from it in 2015.
In May 2013, at the age of eighty, he conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the first time, and since then, he has frequently returned to the podium, in April and November, 2015, February and May, 2017, July and December, 2018, and in March 2023, not only for the orchestra’s subscription concerts, but also in its Orchard Hall Series as well as the 6th Subscription Concert in Iwaki and the orchestra’s west Japan tour.
The June subscription concerts he will conduct takes place in the year to mark the 50th anniversary of his first visit to Japan, and with the program of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rakhmaninov and Tchaikovsky, I am sure he will give his audience a taste of the unique charm of Russian music with powerful yet some melancholic shade to its melody.

[Kotaro Yamazaki, music critic]

Born in 1985 in Moscow, Yulianna Avdeeva learned at the Moscow Gnessin Special School (college) of Music, famous for its early musical education, and from 2003, under Konstantin Scherbakov at the Zurich University of the Arts.
She came to attention after winning the second prize (no 1st place) in the piano section of the Geneva International Music Competition in 2006, and rose to fame in 2010 by winning the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Since then, at the forefront as one of the world’s most renowned pianists, she makes her successful appearances in recitals, concerto performances with famed orchestras worldwide, and also in music festivals including the Salzburg and Lucerne. She is also active as a fortepianist. Her performance of focusing on the whole work while delicately polishing the expressions of the details, and incorporating deep emotions, has been highly evaluated.
This is her first appearance with the NHK Symphony Orchestra since 2014. She will perform Rakhmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. She will display both the romantic emotion and vivid playing technique of this work in an accurate performance unique to her.

[Motoyuki Teranishi, music critic]