The Sydney Youth Orchestras kick off an exciting year of music-making with their friend and mentor pianist Simon Tedeschi as guest soloist. In Intensity of Emotion Simon Tedeschi will perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15 followed by the orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5, Op.64. Simon Tedeschi says “Brahms’ first piano concerto is a tumultuous battle between piano and orchestra,…
Earlier this month, clarinet player Lloyd Van’t Hoff from Brisbane, won the prestigious 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, playing Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch at Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. As the dust settles from his career-making win, Lloyd admitted to SoundsLikeSydney what he thought…
On his new recording Pictures at an Exhibition for ABC Classics, pianist Simon Tedeschi combines two works from the Russian piano repertoire which share their status as masterworks, but which are at opposite ends of the spectrum of complexity. First on the CD is Mussorgsky’s suite of 10 pieces, from which the recording takes its…