Skopje, 22 January 2026 (MIA) — The Philharmonic will give a concert featuring Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami and Japanese pianist Maki Okada Papavrami as soloists. They will perform works by Rossini, Paganini and Chopin, organizers said in a press release.

Conducted by Olsi Qinami, the concert is titled "Yin-Yang." The concert program consists of Gioachino Rossini's Overture from “The Thieving Magpie,” Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.6 and Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11.

Tedi Papavrami (b. 1971, Tirana), acclaimed for his virtuosity on the violin, teaches the violin in Geneva. Described as a child prodigy, Papavrami received a scholarship from the French government to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, under the direction of Pierre Amoyal. 

In 1985, he won the Rodolfo Lipitzer competition in Gorizia. In 1986, he unanimously won the First Prize of the Conservatory of Paris. He has continuously won awards and performed with renowned orchestras worldwide, sharing stages with Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Gary Hofmann, Maria Joao Pires and Viktoria Mullova, with whom he also recorded a Prokofiev CD. He has also released CDs with works by Bach, Ysaÿe, Bartók, Paganini, Franck, Fauré and Beethoven.

Maki Okada Papavrami studied the piano at Toho Gakuen School of Music at Tokyo with Etsko Tazaki, before continuing her studies at the Le Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and receiving the Diplôme d'études musicales spécialisées in 2008.

She has given many solo piano recitals and performed chamber music with distinguished musicians including flautists Shigenori Kudo and Philippe Bernold. In 2011, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra accompanied her in Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30. In 2013, she performed the full preludes of Debussy in the Hakuju Hall in Tokyo. She now performs in a violin-piano duo with her husband, with whom she won the 2018 Barocksaal Best Concert prize for their duo recital. mr/