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THURSDAY 20 JULY AT 7:30PM Bonynge, Alan Gilbert, Michael Halász, Tutor to the European Union Youth Orchestra BIOGRAPHIES Jun Märkl, Sir William Southgate, Roger gives masterclasses worldwide, most and Patrick Thomas. ROGER recently at the Royal Academy of Music (United Kingdom) and Den Haag Conservatory Other recent highlights include tours BENEDICT (Netherlands). to China and the United Arab Emirates VIOLA SIMON with Meeting Mozart, and this year, a new Roger Benedict’s wide-ranging career has A conductor, with recent engagements TEDESCHI recording and national tour of Richard encompassed work as a conductor, soloist, including London’s Southbank Sinfonia, PIANO Strauss’ Enoch Arden with esteemed orchestral player, chamber musician and and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, theatre icon John Bell AO OBE. Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Australian Simon Tedeschi is one of ’s teacher. Principal Viola of the Philharmonia Youth Orchestra and the National Youth most renowned and sought-after classical His wide-ranging discography includes Orchestra in London from 1991-2000, he Orchestra of Great Britain. He is also an pianists, awarded several prestigious prizes Gershwin and Me, Gershwin: Take Two, is currently Principal Viola of the Sydney editor and arranger, with recent publications including first prize in the Keyboard division and Tender Earth (ABC Classics), alongside Symphony Orchestra since 2002, and including viola transcriptions of works by of the Royal Overseas League Competition his critically-acclaimed recording for ABC Artistic Director of the orchestra’s Fellowship Schubert and Mozart for Partitura-Verlag. (United Kingdom), Symphony Australia’s Classics of Pictures at an Exhibition, and Program. He plays a Carlo Antonio Testore viola made Young Performer of the Year Award, and the concerti by Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. As viola soloist, Roger has appeared with the in Milan in 1753. Legacy Award from the Creativity Foundation Simon is Artistic Patron of Fine Music Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic ( of America). A recipient of a 102.5FM, and Ambassador for Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Centenary of Federation Medal, Simon has For more information visit rogerbenedict.com Children's Music Foundation, Blue Mountains Orchestra, and Ulster Orchestra in the United performed in major concert halls throughout Concert Society, Sydney Eisteddfod and Ryde Kingdom as well as the Sydney Symphony Europe, North America and Asia, and for Eisteddfod and Australian Ambassador for Orchestra (over 20 performances) and Japan’s world leaders such as George W. Bush, the Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid piano. Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. PROGRAM , Nelson Mandela, Schumann: Sonata in A minor op 105 and the Dalai Lama. For more information visit simontedeschi.com As both recitalist and chamber musician, Schubert, arr Benedict: Suite of songs Roger has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall Simon performed his first Mozart piano from Winterreise and Purcell Room, at all major festivals and concerto in the at age concert series in the United Kingdom, with INTERVAL nine. Based in the United States of America chamber music partners such as Lorin Maazel, for several years’ courtesy of the American Brahms: Sonatensatz from F.A.E. Sonata Simon Rattle, Louis Lortie, Leif Ove Andsnes; Australian Association and the Australian Schumann: Intermezzo from F.A.E. Sonata within Australia, with the Tinalley String Elizabethan Theatre Trust, in 2009 he Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata Quartet, Verbrugghen Ensemble, and pianists performed in Carnegie Hall, won the ‘New Simon Tedeschi and Timothy Young. York Young Jewish Pianist Award’ and was featured in the Emerging Artist series held He features on three critically acclaimed in the Museum of Jewish Heritage. CDs: a recording of Vaughan Williams’ Flos MERCHANDISE Campi with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra PURCHASE A CD Simon has performed solo recitals (2011), Voices in the Wilderness, and Volupté, AND HAVE IT SIGNED throughout Europe, United States of America the latter selected as ‘one of the 10 best BY SIMON AND and Asia. He has also performed as a recordings of 2010’ by theclassicalreview.com ROGER IN OUR FOYER soloist with the Colorado, Fort Worth and AFTER THE SHOW. Illinois Symphony Orchestras (United States Roger studied at the Royal Northern College of America), the Christchurch Symphony of Music (United Kingdom) and the Orchestra (New Zealand) and the Sydney, International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide and Cove. He became Professor at the Royal Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, under Northern College of Music from 1997- 2002, the baton of conductors such as Richard and is currently at the Sydney Conservatorium. RIVERSIDE THEATRES DIRECTOR ROBERT LOVE BUSINESS MANAGER PAMELA THORNTON MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER JONATHAN LLEWELLYN OPERATIONS MANAGER LINDA TAYLOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, NATIONAL THEATRE OF PARRAMATTA JOANNE KEE

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