Simon is one of Australia’s leading classical pianists, acclaimed for his performances across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. He has played for world leaders including President George W. Bush and the Dalai Lama, and won major awards such as Symphony Australia’s Young Performer of the Year, the Calibre Prize for essay writing, and the Centenary of Federation Medal.

A published author, his debut book Fugitive (2023) was shortlisted for prestigious literary awards. He has written for outlets like the Sydney Morning Herald, Seizure Magazine, and SBS Feast.

Tedeschi debuted at the Sydney Opera House at age nine and has performed at Carnegie Hall and with major orchestras in the US and Australia. He collaborates widely in chamber music and jazz, including with Andrew Haveron, Sally Walker, and Kevin Hunt, and holds a Master’s in Writing and Literature from Deakin University.

Elena is One of Australia’s foremost contemporary composers, Elena Kats-Chernin’s vibrant and distinctive music across all genres has reached millions worldwide, featuring at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, 2003 Rugby World Cup and 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she has received numerous prizes including Helpmann, Limelight, Sounds Australian and Sydney
Theatre Awards, the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award and the 2022 Australian Women in Music Award (AWMA) for ‘Artistic Excellence’. Elena Kats-Chernin composed the music soundtrack to Oscar-winning director Adam Elliott’s multi-award-winning full length claymation film “Memoir of a Snail”, which won the top Cristal award for ‘Best Feature Film’ at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, ‘Best film’ at the BFI London Film Festival, and was an official nomination in the 97th Academy Awards, the 82nd Annual Golden Globes, among many others. ‘Eliza Aria’ from ballet Wild Swans (choreographer Meryl Tankard) was made famous by British bank Lloyds TSB; Kats-Chernin’s ‘Sarenka’ double concerto premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was nominated for ‘Work of the Year’ in the 2024 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, and Elena was the highest voted Australian composer in the ABC’s Classic100 countdowns in both 2024 and 2025, as well as the most popular female composer.
Kats-Chernin writes for ballet, opera, theatre, television and the concert hall, with her music performed by all major orchestras in Australia, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Brandenburg Orchestra and Australian World Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Deutsche Kammerorchester Berlin, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the North Carolina
Symphony and Luxembourg Philharmonie, as well as the opera houses of Antwerp, Stuttgart, and Berlin, and in festivals across the
USA, Europe, and Australasia. She has been a resident composer with Magdeburg and Bremerhaven theatres recently. She has collaborated with well-known artists such as Marin Alsop, Avi Avital, Michael Collins, Mahan Esfahani, Shobana Jeyasingh, Richard Tognetti, William Barton, Simone Young, and many more, with 2025 premieres in Australia, Luxembourg and Austria. Elena
collaborated for the first time with William Yang on his 2012 Sydney Festival project, ‘I am a camera’, joining forces once more for
the world premiere of ‘Milestone’ for Sydney Festival in 2025, AsiaTOPA, Brisbane and OzAsia Festivals. Elena Kats-Chernin’s music is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes, and recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and ABC Classics, and more.