In the upcoming Live at Yours concerts, Australian audiences will be meeting the Vienna Philharmonic’s youngest-ever concertmaster, Yamen Saadi, for the very first time.

It will be much for same for Saadi’s accompanist, pianist Simon Tedeschi as the duo perform a series of miniature masterpieces by Austrian-American composer Fritz Kreisler and Edvard Grieg’s Sonata No. 3, with Saadi playing Kreisler’s original 1734 Stradivari violin.

Simon Tedeschi (at the 2023 Blackheath Chamber Music Festival). Photo © Keith-Saunders

“It’s very common in the world of classical music to find yourself playing with someone you’ve only just met,” says Tedeschi. “You’re often in a position where you encounter a new orchestra, a new conductor, or new musical partners. You just have to work with them and get on with it. But if the person is musically reactive in the right way, it will still be fantastic, and music is at its best when it’s spontaneous. You never know exactly what’s going to happen. That’s the beauty of it.”

Tedeschi is very familiar with Saadi’s sound, however, having listened to the 27-year-old, Nazareth-born violinist play with the...