Georg Pedersen
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Georg Pedersen is one of Australia’s foremost cello teachers and performers. He has given well over 3000 concerts in 24 countries, as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and principal orchestra player. He was solo cellist in The Royal Danish Philharmonic, one of the ten best orchestras in the world according to Karajan, Bernstein, Klemperer, Celibidache and Kleiber, and founder of the Dania Quartet and the Copenhagen Chamber soloists. He has recorded 18 CDs on 10 labels, and is broadcast worldwide. He has performed and taught widely in Europe, the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Asia, New Zealand and Australia, and tours for the ABC and the Department of Foreign Affairs. In Australia Georg has been Guest Principal Cellist with the ACO, the SSO and the AOBO orchestras. He has performed with the Soloists of Australia, The Australian Piano Trio, The Sydney String Quartet, Flederman Ensemble, The Sydney Trio and performed and recorded as soloist with every Australian ochestra.
Georg’s interest in how young cellists learn and develop has always been a main force in his professional life, and his many students win international, national and local competitions and scholarships every year. He has students in every orchestra in London, Manchester, Copenhagen, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc., and former students of his are Professors in European Conservatoria.
Georg studied with Paul Tortelier in Paris and Gregor Piatigorsky in Los Angeles, and chamber music with the Prague Quartet and the Vlack Quartet. He worked with many European composers, including Shostakovich. In Australia he has received 8 grants from the Australia Council, and has commissioned and premiered many new works from Australia’s foremost composers.
As a pedagogue Georg is up to date with the latest developments through his many contacts throughout the world, and is a strong contributor himself, as his many students inspire him to create new teaching and learning material as needed, which in turn allows them to become even better students.