Simon Tedeschi & George Washingmachine: Gershwin and more!

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23 Mar 2025
2.00pm
Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood NSW
Classical and jazz
Simon Tedeschi and George Washingmachine

Extraordinary concert pianist, Simon Tedeschi teams up with jazz vocalist and violinist, George Washingmachine for something a little different - Gershwin favourites and classic jazz standards by Cole Porter, Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller and more.
Special SUBSCRIPTION FOR ALL 4 Concerts in the 2025 Concert series - $230 or buy Individual Tickets for this concert:
Adult = $59.70
Concession = $54.70
Youth (under 18 Years old) = $25.70

Simon Tedeschi with special guest, George Washingmachine:

Gershwin & more

Extraordinary concert pianist, Simon Tedeschi, is one of Australia's best-loved classical musicians, performing everything from Mozart and Chopin to Debussy and Prokofiev for orchestras, festivals, and venues around the world, from Sydney Opera House to Carnegie Hall. With a long-harboured love of jazz, and three celebrated albums of Gershwin’s music to his name, Tedeschi teams up with jazz vocalist and violinist, George Washingmachine, for something a little different - Gershwin favourites and classic jazz standards by Cole Porter, Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller and more.

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“A common question about Gershwin’s music is: ‘is it jazz’? Many would say that jazz has to be improvised. But even then, jazz is often defined by its groove and a grounding in the blues, that uniquely American sound and form teetering between happiness and sadness. Based on this alone, it would seem that George Gershwin’s music is more jazzy than jazz, as his music is also the legacy of Russian classical music, Eastern European Klezmer and French impressionism.

However, his music has such a sense of harmonic inevitability and flow that jazz musicians - those inculcated in the tradition of the music of Black America, from the south in particular - use Gershwin’s songs (and his brother’s lyrics) to create jazz. George is a jazz musician and I am a classical musician who loves jazz, and so our duo represents everything that Gershwin is and tries to be - a music for all people, in all our complexity.” – Simon Tedeschi

CDs available for purchase and signings by Simon and George, after the concert.

The Concert Society is offering a four concert series SUBSCRIPTION ticket for just $230.00 This offer expires 23 March 2025.

Contact Details

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