It’s an arresting image on the cover of our May 2022 magazine, isn’t it? It’s a portrait of Australian concert pianist Simon Tedeschi called He who hears, painted by Loribelle Spirovski, a three-time Archibald Prize finalist, and Tedeschi’s wife.

Cover of Limelight’s May 2022 magazine.

Portraits of the pianist are a running theme of our cover story, Key Change; Tedeschi is about to publish his first book, Fugitive, which he describes as “an undiluted portrait” of himself and the world he lives in, and the thing he is most proud of in his career thus far. Miriam Cosic’s profile of Tedeschi is a lot like the man himself: wide-ranging, intensely thoughtful and hugely insightful – and you can also read an excerpt of the book, in all its abstract, stream of consciousness glory.

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