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His headmaster at St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney dissuaded him from taking part in sports such as cricket, for fear of damaging his hands, and he was given a room to pursue his piano playing instead.<ref>"The Face:Simon Tedeschi", ''Weekend Australian'', 31 March-1 April 2001</ref> His headmaster at St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney dissuaded him from taking part in sports such as cricket, for fear of damaging his hands, and he was given a room to pursue his piano playing instead.<ref>"The Face:Simon Tedeschi", ''Weekend Australian'', 31 March-1 April 2001</ref>

*2000
**]'s ] with the QSO
**recitals for the ] (MSO),
**a ] program for the ]
**an extensive recital tour for ]
**guest appearances with the ] virtuoso ] on his Australian tour
**performed for the ] at his fund-raising concert in ]
**] and ] – performances which moved Larry Adler to comment that "''...he is one of the finest ] exponents I have seen...reminds me of the young Rachmaninoff...''".

*2001
**] and ]
**toured extensively for Musica Viva Australia with guitarist ]

*2002
**recitals and concertos in ], ], ], ], ] and a 5-concert tour of ] as part of the ].

*2003
**Gershwin's '']'' at the ]'s ] Concert at ], Sydney
**a recital with Slava Grigoryan.

*2004
**toured for Musica Viva, and travelled to ] for performances with ].

*2005
**Italy
**the opening recital for the Australian Pavilion at the ] in ], ] and later invited back to perform in Expo Hall for ]
**a performance at the invitation of the ] for the ] and ] of ]
**November 2005, soloist with the ] for the ] (CHOGM) in ]
**recitals all over Australia, including performances with award-winning ] pianist ] and touring with renowned ]ian ] ] and ] ].

*2006
**New York, ], ] (with ]) Philadelphia and ]
**2006 International ] Festival with a recital in ], London.
**tours with jazz pianist Kevin Hunt.

*]'s ] with the ] (QSO)
*]'s ], K. 595 with the Sydney Symphony.

==Awards and recognition==
Tedeschi has won numerous prizes and piano scholarships. In 1994, he entered his first International Piano competition in Italy. There he was voted the ''Most Outstanding Performer in all Youth Sections'' as well as winning the Open Age Concerto Section, two Piano sections and his age section. As a result of this competition, he toured the ] in 1995, performing in New York, North Carolina and Texas. That same year, he had a private audience with ] and performed for him.

In 1998, Tedeschi was named the ''Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year'', performing ]'s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of ] at the ]. He was the recipient of a ''Queen's Trust Overseas Study Award'' of $10,000, also presented at the Young Performers Awards in Melbourne.

In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary of ] Medal by the ].

In February 2002 Tedeschi won the keyboard section of the ] Music Competition in London, which is open to ] musicians under the age of 28.

==Media appearances==
Simon Tedeschi performed the hand double for actor ] (] as a child) in the 1996 Australian film, '']''.

He was the subject of an ] TV documentary, "]", screened nationally on 5 August 1999.

He and his Polish-born grandmother, who died during the filming, were featured in an ] TV documentary "The Two of Us" on 23 August 2006.<ref></ref>

Tedeschi has been in a number of episodes of the ABC TV music quiz show, "]".

==Recordings==
Tedeschi signed a recording deal with ] under the ] label. His debut CD was released in May 2000. He was subsequently nominated for an ] as ''Classical Performer of the Year'' and for an ] award – ''Classical Record of the Year''.

In 2003 he recorded ]'s Piano Concerto with the ].

Simon has recorded ] and ] with the ] under the baton of ], which was released in September 2005. Richard Bonynge commented: "''an extraordinary young pianist...I felt a true musical togetherness with Simon – his sensitivity, his passion and his superb technique.''"


==References== ==References==

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Simon Tedeschi (born 1 May 1981) is a Boston-based classical pianist from Australia.

Life and career

Simon Tedeschi was born in Sydney to Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor and a prominent photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, who is the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin, believed to be distantly related to George Gershwin.

His headmaster at St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney dissuaded him from taking part in sports such as cricket, for fear of damaging his hands, and he was given a room to pursue his piano playing instead.

References

  1. "The Face: Mark Tedeschi", The Australian, 22 March 2008
  2. "The Face:Simon Tedeschi", Weekend Australian, 31 March-1 April 2001
  3. The Pianist and the Holocaust Survivor, The Australian Jewish News, 18 August 2006
  4. "The Face:Simon Tedeschi", Weekend Australian, 31 March-1 April 2001

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