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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)
and
Simon Tedeschi (guest piano)

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra presents

DUSKLIT

Program:

MIRIAMA YOUNG DuskLit Meditations*
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K467
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90 Italian

* MCO premiere commission

Artists:

Sophie Rowell, Artistic Director
Andrea Lam, piano
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
& students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra presents

DUSKLIT

Program:

MIRIAMA YOUNG DuskLit Meditations*
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K467
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90 Italian

* MCO premiere commission

Artists:

Sophie Rowell, Artistic Director
Andrea Lam, piano
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
& students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra presents

DUSKLIT

Program:

MIRIAMA YOUNG DuskLit Meditations*
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K467
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90 Italian

* MCO premiere commission

Artists:

Sophie Rowell, Artistic Director
Andrea Lam, piano
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
& students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

[SOLD OUT]

Canberra Bach Ensemble presents

TRAUERODE

Canberra Bach Ensemble presents Bach’s Trauerode BWV 198, one of his most remarkable and moving ceremonial works.

Written in 1727 in memory of Christiane Eberhardine, Electress of Saxony, the Trauerode combines profound choral writing with an unusually rich instrumental palette, including transverse flutes, oboes d’amore, violas da gamba and lutes.

The program also includes the cantatas Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 125 and Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht BWV 55.

Canberra Bach Ensemble is joined by specialist singers and period-instrument players, including flautist Sally Walker and tenor Timothy Reynolds, for two performances at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka.

Canberra Bach Ensemble presents

TRAUERODE

Canberra Bach Ensemble presents Bach’s Trauerode BWV 198, one of his most remarkable and moving ceremonial works.

Written in 1727 in memory of Christiane Eberhardine, Electress of Saxony, the Trauerode combines profound choral writing with an unusually rich instrumental palette, including transverse flutes, oboes d’amore, violas da gamba and lutes.

The program also includes the cantatas Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 125 and Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht BWV 55.

Canberra Bach Ensemble is joined by specialist singers and period-instrument players, including flautist Sally Walker and tenor Timothy Reynolds, for two performances at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra presents

DUSKLIT

Program:

MIRIAMA YOUNG DuskLit Meditations*
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K467
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90 Italian

* MCO premiere commission

Artists:

Sophie Rowell, Artistic Director
Andrea Lam, piano
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
& students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Port Fairy Spring Music Festival 2026 presents

LAST FLIGHT TO MARS

Walker premieres Tognetti

Arts Bundanoon presents

‘Bright Star’

Created and performed by John Bell AO OBE & Simon Tedeschi AM

[SOLD OUT]

Port Fairy Spring Music Festival 2026 presents

Saint-Saens’ CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

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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Canberra International Music Festival presents

Newbridge Spring Into Art presents

Opening Night Concert: The Great American Songbook Concert with Simon Tedeschi, George Washingmachine and special guest Clare O’Meara

After the great success of last year’s concert, Simon Tedeschi and George Washingmachine are returning to the little village of Newbridge to perform on its Newbridge Art Show opening night.

6pm for opening of the Newbrige Art Show
8 – 9:30pm for Concert

This year they bring special guest Clare O’Meara for an evening of great jazz and Latin songs of the 20^th Century – The Great American Songbook – in the glorious surroundings of the Former Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Newbridge.