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Saturday 3 October 2009 (evening)
Manning Entertainment Centre Taree
Simon Tedeschi and Kevin Hunt - 'I Want to Play Like Him'
Join the mutual admiration society of two pianists and attend their 2 piano performance that transcends genre, resulting in a unique blend of styles and backgrounds. It stirs the jazz and classical realms into one musical recipe. These two have played throughout Australia to great acclaim, and are receiving rave reviews wherever they perform together.
Tedeschi and Hunt serve up an exciting mix of audience favourites, with music from Bach to Duke Ellington and other classical and jazz greats such as Shostakovich, Debussy, Fats Waller, Brubeck and Oscar Peterson. Gershwin's much-lauded masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue receives a new pianistic polish from the two maestros.
"Simon has always loved jazz and has recently been 'soaking up ' the American Jazz feeling. Equally I have always loved classical music for its detail of sound production and composition" says Kevin Hunt. "The music we play together constantly weaves between jazz and classical forms, and now after years of playing together our improvising has become an exciting focus of the performance."
Simon Tedeschi has been described by pianist Leslie Howard as one of the finest musicians of his generation worldwide. Performing a Mozart Piano Concerto at age 9 in the Sydney Opera House, Simon performed for Camden Haven Arts Council at Kendall not long after that, and made a return visit when he was about 19. Now we have the opportunity to see and hear him as a mature pianist, with a string of scholarships, awards and accolades to his name, indulging his love of jazz in this wonderful collaboration with Kevin Hunt.
"Tedeschi's fireworks show...Simon Tedeschi demonstrated why he has been dubbed one of the finest musicians of his generation… Tedeschi delighted a big Angel Place crowd with a ragtime pianistic fireworks display worthy of the Foti family...with one of Tedeschi’s all-too-rare Sydney appearances, this was a stirring and uplifting night." Steve Moffat, Mosman Daily, 16/12/2008
Kevin Hunt is a popular and versatile jazz pianist. He has, over the last 18 years, shared the stage with international artists including: Herb Ellis, Billy Cobham, Sheila Jordon, and Larry Adler. He has also recorded and performed with most of Sydney's prominent jazz artists.
He works with his own trio, the Kevin Hunt JS Bach Trio, and also tours extensively with Don Burrows.
Kevin's passion for the piano began when his father Ellis taught him to play. Kevin then followed in his brothers' footsteps and played brass instruments in the school band and started playing keyboards in rock bands. He completed a Master in Music Performance from Sydney Conservatorium in 2004.
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