Simon Tedeschi
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| Background information | |
| Born |
1 May 1981 Gosford, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | pianist |
| Instruments | piano |
| Website | www |
Simon Tedeschi (born 1 May 1981) is an Australian classical pianist.
Tedeschi was born in Gosford to Mark Tedeschi QC, Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales and photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin. He grew up on the North Shore of Sydney and attended Beaumont Road Public School in West Killara and St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney where the headmaster discouraged him from taking part in sports lest he damage his hands.
His teachers were Neta Maughan in Australia, Noretta Conci in England and Peter Serkin in USA.
When he was 9 years old, he performed Mozart Piano Concerto no. 19 K.459 in the Sydney Opera House. At age 13, Tedeschi played for Luciano Pavarotti.
Tedeschi signed with Sony Music Australia in 2000 and his debut CD was nominated for an ARIA award for Classical Record of the Year. In 2004, he recorded Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra with Richard Bonynge.
In 2013, recorded Gershwin and Me (Universal/ABC), a CD that stayed for two weeks at number 1 on the Australian classical music charts. The same year, a follow up album was entitled Gershwin Take 2.
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