Take note: this year’s celebrations of Women’s Day at the Kraków Philharmonic are held on a different date! On 9 March, we will hear two great ladies of music: Julia Fischer and Yulianna Avdeeva. Fischer, one of the finest violinists working today, became the youngest ever professor of her instrument aged just 23 in Germany. This year, she is working with the Viennese Philharmonic orchestra as artist in residence. And Avdeeva needs no introduction to Polish audiences: when the Russian artist won the Chopin Competition in 2010, she was already a rising star of piano virtuosity. Today she performs at the finest stages the world over. The evening for violin and piano resounds with Brahms’s Violin Sonata in A major Op. 100, Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata in G major Op. 134, and Szymanowski’s dreamy, dazzling Mythes. (Barbara Skowrońska)

Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 2 in A major for violin and piano Op. 100
Karol Szymanowski Mythes Op. 30
Dmitry Shostakovich Sonata for violin and piano Op. 134

Julia Fischer – violin
Yulianna Avdeeva – piano