August
25julAll Day09augSimon TedeschiACO - From Winter's Stillness (national tour)
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Australian Chamber Orchestra presents From Winter’s Stillness Trio Mediæval and Arve Henriksen join Richard Tognetti and the ACO for a soul-stirring evocation of ancient landscapes and Northern light. Featuring guest pianist Simon Tedeschi
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Australian Chamber Orchestra presents
From Winter’s Stillness
Trio Mediæval and Arve Henriksen join Richard Tognetti and the ACO for a soul-stirring evocation of ancient landscapes and Northern light.
Featuring guest pianist Simon Tedeschi on prepared piano and harpsichord (Schnittke Concerto Grosso no.1)
National tour, 25 July – 9 August 2026
Sun 26 Jul, 2:30pm + Mon 27 Jul, 7:30pm – Hamer Hall Arts Centre (Melbourne)
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01aug7:30 pmTamara-Anna CislowskaWest Australian Symphony Orchestra
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West Australian Symphony Orchestra presents in its MACA Symphonic Series Sibelius’ Second: Legends awaken Leevi MADETOJA Kullervo
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West Australian Symphony Orchestra presents in its MACA Symphonic Series
Sibelius’ Second: Legends awaken
Leevi MADETOJA Kullervo
Elena KATS-CHERNIN Piano Concerto No.3 Lebewohl
Jean SIBELIUS Symphony No.2
Kristian Sallinen conductor
Tamara-Anna Cislowska piano
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Young Finnish conductor Kristian Sallinen brings Nordic flair to the stage with Sibelius’ beloved Second Symphony. The quiet, introspective opening of this meditative masterpiece transforms into an expansive and glorious finale. Sallinen begins the concert with Finnish master Leevi Madetoja’s rarely heard Kullervo, music of turbulent drama and romantic lyricism. Elena Kats-Chernin is one of Australia’s most-loved composers, and her friend and collaborator Tamara-Anna Cislowska lends expressive passion to her Third Piano Concerto.
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Winthrop Hall, UWA, Perth
35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009
13aug7:00 pmKarin SchauppWest Australian Academy of Performing Arts
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West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, presents Karin Schaupp: the Feeling of Home Directed and performed by: Visiting Artist Karin Schaupp (Classical Guitar) ARIA award-winning guitarist Karin Schaupp, celebrated worldwide,
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West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, presents
Karin Schaupp: the Feeling of Home
Directed and performed by: Visiting Artist Karin Schaupp (Classical Guitar)
ARIA award-winning guitarist Karin Schaupp, celebrated worldwide, brings a program spanning centuries and styles, from timeless works by Bach, Schubert, Tárrega, and Turina to brilliant Australian works by Joe Chindamo, Richard Charlton, and brand new pieces written especially for Karin by Ross Edwards, Phil Moran and Tara Lynam. With her playing described as “beyond comparison” (Rhein Main Presse, Germany) and “electrifying” (Australian Stage), this is a rare opportunity to experience up close the unmatched artistry of Karin Schaupp and enjoy anew the exquisite beauty of the solo guitar.
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McCusker Recital Hall, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University
ECU City, 500 Wellington Street, Perth WA 6000
14aug4:00 pmKarin SchauppWest Australian Academy of Performing Arts
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West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, presents Karin Schaupp: guitar masterclass Directed and performed by: Visiting Artist Karin Schaupp (Classical Guitar)
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West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, presents
Karin Schaupp: guitar masterclass
Directed and performed by: Visiting Artist Karin Schaupp (Classical Guitar)
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McCusker Recital Hall, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University
ECU City, 500 Wellington Street, Perth WA 6000
15augAll Day16Karin SchauppWest Australian Classical Guitar Ensemble Festival
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WA Classical Guitar Society and WA Department of Education present WA Classical Guitar Ensemble (and Solo) Festival
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WA Classical Guitar Society and WA Department of Education present
WA Classical Guitar Ensemble (and Solo) Festival
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Carine Senior High School (WA)
51 Everingham St, Carine WA 6020
18aug7:30 pmAndrea LamUniversity of Melbourne Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series [SOLD OUT]
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University of Melbourne, Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series presents ANDREA LAM in recital – the Sonata as Storytelling [SOLD OUT]
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University of Melbourne, Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series presents
ANDREA LAM in recital – the Sonata as Storytelling
[SOLD OUT]
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Ian Potter Southbank Centre (Melbourne)
43 Sturt St
20aug7:00 pmSimon TedeschiFestival of the Spoken Word
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Shalom Collective: Festival of the Spoken Word FUGITIVE Hybrid Performance Piano Performance, Reading and Reflection By Simon Tedeschi AM Music and language meet as equal partners in this live performance built around Sergei Prokofiev’s
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Shalom Collective: Festival of the Spoken Word
FUGITIVE
Hybrid Performance
Piano Performance, Reading and Reflection
By Simon Tedeschi AM
Music and language meet as equal partners in this live performance built around Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives and excerpts from Simon Tedeschi’s memoir Fugitive.
Moving between piano performance, spoken word and reflection, Tedeschi interweaves sound and story to explore memory, exile, inheritance and the ways art carries personal and historical experince. Intimate and formerly adventurous, the evening unfolds somewhere between concert, literary performance, and conversation.
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Sydney
22aug8:00 pmSimon Tedeschiwith Oliver Shermacher
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Camelot presents Simon Tedeschi with special guest, award-winning clarinettist Oliver Shermacher. Join internationally acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi AM and award-winning clarinettist Oliver Shermacher for an evocative evening celebrating the music of
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Camelot presents Simon Tedeschi with special guest, award-winning clarinettist Oliver Shermacher.
Join internationally acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi AM and award-winning clarinettist Oliver Shermacher for an evocative evening celebrating the music of Jewish Australian composers.
Featuring works by some of Australia’s most beloved and internationally recognised composers including Elena Kats-Chernin AO, Yitzhak Yedid, Arthur Benjamin, Larry Sitsky, and Guy Gross, this intimate recital weaves together rich musical narratives, exploring themes of identity, memory, and heritage through the expressive voices of piano and clarinet.
Oliver Shermacher is a multi-award-winning clarinettist known for his virtuosic and imaginative performances. Winner of the 2022 Aeolus International Wind Competition and recipient of the Audience Award, Oliver now lives between Australia and Germany, working as a soloist, teacher and orchestral clarinettist.
In Australia, Oliver is a recipient of the Freedman Fellowship, and was a finalist in the ABC Young Performers Award, where he also received the Audience Award. He has appeared as a soloist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vogtlandphilharmonie, Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie and Apex Ensemble, and was Artist in Residence with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, with whom he premiered the Alice Chance Clarinet Concerto.
Extraordinary pianist and writer, Simon Tedeschi AM needs little introduction to Camelot audiences… come along for the chance to hear something completely new as Simon and Oliver perform together for the very first time, in concert. Expect the unexpected!
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Camelot Lounge
Marrickville Rd & Railway Parade, Marrickville NSW 2204
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series Concert 6: Andrew Dickeson’s Blue Rhythm Band – The Duke Ellington Legacy [SOLD OUT] Extraordinary drummer and bandleader Andrew Dickeson brings his Blue Rhythm
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series
Concert 6: Andrew Dickeson’s Blue Rhythm Band – The Duke Ellington Legacy
[SOLD OUT]
Extraordinary drummer and bandleader Andrew Dickeson brings his Blue Rhythm Band to The Lounge with a swinging tribute to Duke Ellington. This all-star quintet serves up classics like Take the A Train, It Don’t Mean a Thing, Caravan, and Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, celebrating Ellington’s enduring legacy. Built from a rock-solid rhythm section with horns and vocals, the band draws on the traditions of Basie, Goodman, Hampton, and Lunceford, delivering authentic, toe-tapping swing. The Blue Rhythm Band promises a night of jazz magic—dancing shoes optional!
Brad Child – Sax and vocals
Jacob Graham – Bass
Peter Locke – Piano
Andrew Dickeson – Drums
Special guest: Todd Hardy – Trumpet
“Perhaps the most tasteful drummer currently playing in the Sydney scene, and Dickeson’s expertise and brilliance are widely admired.” – Eric Myers
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The Lounge, at The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave
September
06sep1:30 pmSimon TedeschiAvoca Beach Theatre - with Mat Jodrell
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Avoca Beach Theatre presents Simon Tedeschi with special guest, Mat Jodrell Join acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi and internationally renowned trumpeter Mat Jodrell for an afternoon celebrating the Great American Songbook – timeless
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Avoca Beach Theatre presents
Simon Tedeschi with special guest, Mat Jodrell
Join acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi and internationally renowned trumpeter Mat Jodrell for an afternoon celebrating the Great American Songbook – timeless jazz standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and more!
Featuring beloved classics including Summertime, Dream Dancing, Autumn Leaves, Basin St Blues and other jazz favourites, this is music rich in melody, warmth and improvisation.
✨ Mat Jodrell is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading jazz musicians. During eight years based in New York City, he performed with jazz legends including Herbie Hancock, Branford Marsalis, Benny Golson, the Maria Schneider Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band at iconic venues such as Blue Note, Birdland, Smalls and Village Vanguard. He also taught at the prestigious Juilliard School. Since returning to Australia, Mat has continued to perform extensively with artists including James Morrison while lecturing in Jazz at the University of Melbourne.
🎹 Simon Tedeschi is one of Australia’s most celebrated pianists, known for his remarkable versatility across classical and jazz repertoire. An ARIA-nominated performer and acclaimed writer, Simon brings a unique classical sensibility to jazz improvisation. Sydney Arts Guide praised him as “a thinking improviser… able to hold his own in any first-class jazz group in this country.”
Having played to packed houses in Sydney and Melbourne, Tedeschi and Jodrell now bring this captivating duo performance to Avoca Beach Theatre. Blending jazz standards, blues influences and American music of the twentieth century, Jazz With a Twist is an intimate concert filled with virtuosity, spontaneity and musical conversation.
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Avoca Beach Picture Theatre
69 Avoca Drive, Avoca Beach NSW 2251
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series Concert 7: Emma Pask – High Standards [SOLD OUT] For one special night, Emma Pask invites you on a journey through the myriad jazz
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series
Concert 7: Emma Pask – High Standards
[SOLD OUT]
For one special night, Emma Pask invites you on a journey through the myriad jazz standards that shaped her, inspired her, and made her fall in love with music again and again.
While Emma’s voice and style are unique, her performances are reminiscent of the classic era of jazz, when swing was top of the charts. She has performed as support to legendary Guitarist/Vocalist George Benson, and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling on recent tours of Australia, and had the honour to sing for VIP audiences including the late Diana Princess of Wales and Princess Mary of Denmark.
Accompanied by her world class trio – featuring Kevin Hunt on piano, Phil Stack on bass and Tim Firth on drums – Emma brings warmth and depth to every note as she artfully traverses classic standards, timeless ballads, and a few unexpected treasures. Her effortless honest stage presence combined with her powerful vocal ability and blistering supporting trio, leaves audiences spellbound and often wanting more.
Following her sold out 2025 appearance in Jazz At The Lounge, High Standards promises an evening of elegance and exquisite musicality, all set in the ‘pristine’ venue for listening to jazz, at the Concourse.
“Emma Pask is at the height of her powers as a singer” – Australian Arts Review
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The Lounge, at The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave
18sep7:30 pmSimon TedeschiACT Keyboard Association (Canberra)
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ACT Keyboard Association presents Simon Tedeschi Plays Your Requests You nominate the composer. He plays the music. Decades on stage, thousands of hours at the piano — all distilled into a single night
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ACT Keyboard Association presents
Simon Tedeschi Plays Your Requests
You nominate the composer. He plays the music.
Decades on stage, thousands of hours at the piano — all distilled into a single night of spontaneous music-making, just for you, the audience.
Don’t miss this rare chance to choose the composers you’d most like to hear played by Simon Tedeschi AM: smart, funny, virtuosic, and always surprising.
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Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT 2600
19sep6:00 pmTarita BotsmanDido & Aeneas
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Lumens Choir presents DIDO & AENEAS by Henry Purcell Join us as Lumens Chamber Choir brings Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas to life on the stage, directed by Tarita Botsman. Tarita Botsman’s vision
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Lumens Choir presents
DIDO & AENEAS by Henry Purcell
Join us as Lumens Chamber Choir brings Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas to life on the stage, directed by Tarita Botsman.
Tarita Botsman’s vision of Dido and Aeneas offers a thrilling, contemporary reimagination of this classic from the Baroque era, with soloists Beth Allen, Zachary Vella, Cassie Barnett and Anne Fulton.
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St Peter's Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre (Dron Auditorium)
66 Harts Rd
24sep8:00 pmSimon TedeschiCamelot Lounge - with George Washingmachine
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Camelot presents Simon Tedeschi with jazz violinist and vocalist, George Washingmachine! Arguably the only classical pianist who crosses so effortlessly into jazz, Simon Tedeschi teams up with jazz vocalist/violinist George Washingmachine,
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Camelot presents Simon Tedeschi with jazz violinist and vocalist, George Washingmachine!
Arguably the only classical pianist who crosses so effortlessly into jazz, Simon Tedeschi teams up with jazz vocalist/violinist George Washingmachine, in a special concert celebrating their shared love of jazz, with standards and more from a new recording together. Come and be entertained by this dazzling duo as they perform not only Gershwin but Cole Porter, Oscar Peterson, and classics like ‘Let’s Get Lost’, ‘But not for me’, ‘I got rhythm’ and more.
A guaranteed night of laid-back jazz, a little classical and plenty of humour from this duo who have toured and performed over 60 performances together from regional town halls to capital city theatres, up and down Australia’s east coast.
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Camelot Lounge
Marrickville Rd & Railway Parade, Marrickville NSW 2204
26sep5:00 pmSally WalkerCanberra Choral Society
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Canberra Choral Society presents WANDERLUST Canberra Choral Society presents Wanderlust, premiering a new work Arboretum by Music Director Dan Walker, inspired by and celebrating the memorable and meaningful features and landscapes of the
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Canberra Choral Society presents
WANDERLUST
Canberra Choral Society presents Wanderlust, premiering a new work Arboretum by Music Director Dan Walker, inspired by and celebrating the memorable and meaningful features and landscapes of the beautiful National Arboretum Canberra.
Sally Walker, renowned flautist, and Anthony Smith, acclaimed pianist, will be accompanying the choir.
An eclectic and poetic selection of uplifting and delightful works are included, from Bruckner, Boulanger, Whitwell, Whitacre and more, inspired by journeys, gardens, woodlands and wild landscapes.
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Wesley Uniting Church
22 National Circuit
29sep8:00 pmSimon TedeschiSydney Mozart Society
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Sydney Mozart Society presents Sonus Quartet – with special guest, Simon Tedeschi In this programme Sonus Piano Quartet with Simon Tedeschi present an example of the peak of Classical poise and elegance,
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Sydney Mozart Society presents
Sonus Quartet – with special guest, Simon Tedeschi
In this programme Sonus Piano Quartet with Simon Tedeschi present an example of the peak of Classical poise and elegance, a prize-winning British Phantasy and a passionate, French Romantic work. In K 493, Mozart balances the piano and string trio as distinct, often conversational, sub-ensembles. In the Phantasy, Bridge blends structural solidity with French-influenced romanticism to produce a work that Benjamin Britten described as “sonorous with lucidity”. Fauré’s Opus 15 is one of his most famous and popular early chamber works, marked by a youthful intensity and dramatic power.
Aiko Goto (violin)
Jacqueline Cronin (viola)
Timothy Nankervis (cello)
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Simon Tedeschi (guest piano)
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Pat Reilly Concert Hall, The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood NSW 2067
October
15oct7:30 pmJazz At The Lounge 2026: Tedeschi/Cutlan/Undy - A Take on Dave Brubeck
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series Concert 8: Tedeschi / Cutlan / Undy – A take on Dave Brubeck After a mesmerising performance at The Lounge in 2025, renowned
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Willoughby City Council’s Jazz At The Lounge 2026 series
Concert 8: Tedeschi / Cutlan / Undy – A take on Dave Brubeck
After a mesmerising performance at The Lounge in 2025, renowned classical pianist Simon Tedeschi returns with Paul Cutlan and Cameron Undy for “A take on Dave Brubeck”.
Celebrating Brubeck’s classical elegance, rhythmic brilliance, and timeless charm, the trio bring iconic hits like Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk to life, alongside hidden gems jazz fans will love.
In the 1960s, Dave Brubeck reached a pinnacle of success in the jazz world by hitting the number- one position in the pop charts. Ever since then, he has remained one of the most popular pianists in the jazz pantheon.
This is a rare chance to experience one of Australia’s finest pianists and two leading lights of jazz, paying tribute to a true jazz legend.
Simon Tedeschi – Piano
Paul Cutlan – Saxophone, clarinet
Cameron Undy – Double bass
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The Lounge, at The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave