Yulianna’s 2025-26 season is already in full swing after a recent recital tour in Korea and China. Continuing her exploration of Shostakovich’s monumental 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87, Yulianna performs the complete work in Madrid at Círculo de Bellas Artes in December. She also looks forward to recital debuts at Musikverein Vienna, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, La Jolla Music Society, Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts, Houston’s DACAMERA series, Festival de Tannay in Switzerland, Società del Quartetto di Milano, and the Music Center De Bijloke in Belgium.
In October, Yulianna heads to Warsaw to serve on the jury of the 19th International Chopin Competition, 15 years after her First Prize win there. On the competition’s inaugural concert, Yulianna and Garrick Ohlsson will perform Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, and Yulianna, Ohlsson, Bruce Liu, and Dang Thai Son will perform J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Four Pianos, all with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
Audiences in Hamburg, Berlin, Madrid, and Vienna can catch Yulianna performing Mieczysław Weinberg’s Piano Quintet with the Belcea Quartet. The Quintet is becoming an important part of Yulianna’s repertoire. Composed relatively early in Weinberg’s career against the backdrop of World War II, the Quintet is a deeply emotional work with a particularly demanding piano part.
Following her performance of the complete Preludes & Fugues by Shostakovich at the Gewandhaus Shostakovich Festival last summer, Yulianna returns to Leipzig in May 2026 as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gewandhaus Festival Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons, with subsequent performances in Frankfurt and Vienna.
Other orchestral appearances in the 2025-26 season include Beethoven with David Danzmayr and the Seattle Symphony; Brahms with Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony; a return to the Pittsburgh Symphony for Prokofiev with Rafael Payare; Rachmaninoff with Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Chopin with Simone Young and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Bartók with Omer Meir and WDR Cologne Radio Orchestra; Chopin with Dinis Sousa and the Dresden Philharmonic; Beethoven with Victor Julien-Laferrière and Orchestre Consuelo at Festival La Chaise-Dieu; and Chopin with Tomàs Grau and the Franz Schubert Filharmonia.
