Simon Tedeschi

Simon Tedeschi (born 1 May 1981) is an Australian classical pianist.
Tedeschi was born in Gosford to Mark Tedeschi QC, Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales and photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin. He grew up on the North Shore of Sydney and attended Beaumont Road Public School in West Killara and St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney where the headmaster discouraged him from taking part in sports lest he damage his hands.
In 1998 he was the winner in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards.