Simon Tedeschi
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Simon Tedeschi is one of Australia’s most renowned classical pianists, recipient of prizes such as Symphony Australia’s Young Performer of the Year Award, the Legacy Award from the Creativity Foundation (USA), first prize in the Keyboard division of the Royal Overseas League Competition (UK), and a Centenary of Federation Medal. He has performed in major concert halls and for festivals throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, and for world leaders including former US President George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.Acclaimed by respected critics and peers as “True greatness” (Sydney Morning Herald), Simon Tedeschi performed his first Mozart piano concerto in the Sydney Opera House at age nine. Based in the USA for several years courtesy of the American Australian Association and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, in 2009 Tedeschi performed in Carnegie Hall, won the ‘New York Young Jewish Pianist Award’ and performed as soloist with the Colorado, Fort Worth and Illinois Symphony Orchestras (USA).
Tedeschi performs as soloist with orchestras including the Sydney Symphony (with whom he returns in 2018 with his new family show, ‘Who Needs A Conductor, Anyway?’), Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (NZ), and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Queensland, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. Recent highlights include performances of Rachmaninov’s piano concerto no.4 with the Sydney Symphony and broadcast by Foxtel Arts; tours to China and the United Arab Emirates; a national tour of ‘Enoch Arden’ to His Majesty’s Theatre Perth, Adelaide Festival Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Sydney Opera House with John Bell AO OBE, with whom Simon collaborates and tours again in 2018 with their new program, ‘Bright Star’. 2018 engagements also include Canberra International Music Festival, touring for Musica Viva, Noosa Alive! Festival, Riverside Theatres, Art Gallery of NSW, and more.
Tedeschi’s wide-ranging discography includes R. Strauss and Schumann on Enoch Arden (with John Bell AO OBE), Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Gershwin and Me , Gershwin: Take Two, and Tender Earth, and concerti by Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Mozart, all for ABC Classics/Universal Music Australia. In February 2018 ABC Classics will release 'A Winter’s Tale', an album of Schubert and Schumann with SSO Principal Viola, Roger Benedict.
Simon is Artistic Patron of Fine Music 102.5FM, and Ambassador for the Australian Children’s Music Foundation, Blue Mountains Concert Society, Sydney Eisteddfod and Ryde Eisteddfod. He is also proudly the inaugural SSO Piano Club Ambassador, and Australian Ambassador for the Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid piano.