Geoffrey Tozer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Geoffrey Tozer
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1954(1954-11-05)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2009-08-21
Birthplace	Mussoorie
Country	India
Birth City	Uttarakhand
Horoscope	Scorpio

Geoffrey Tozer Biography

Geoffrey Tozer is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on November 5, 1954 in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. Classical musician who performed hundreds of concertos including works composed by Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky.

He was instructed in the classroom by He was taught by Artur Schnabel‘s last pupil, Maria Curcio, who was also Schnabel’s favorite pupil.’s final student, Maria Curcio, who was also Schnabel’s most favored student.

In early 1954 she visited Tasmania to recover from a serious medical condition. There she met Geoffrey Conan-Davies, who was the son of an Anglican priest and who had studied theology himself during his years at Oxford University. He was a retired colonial administrator, formerly of East Africa, who was married to Ermyntrude (née Malet), with whom he had four children.

Conceived in Tasmania, Tozer was born in 1954 at Mussoorie, a hill station in the Indian Himalayas. His mother was Veronica Tozer (née Hawkshaw), a gifted musician and pianist who had become a music teacher to support herself and her two sons after her separation and subsequent divorce from Colonel (later Major-General) Donald Tozer.

It was his mother who Veronica Tozer was also a gifted pianist. She was a teacher of music to support her two sons following her divorce from Major General Donald Tozer.

Geoffrey Tozer Net Worth

Geoffrey Tozer is one of the richest Pianist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Geoffrey Tozer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was given the Churchill Fellowship when he was 13 years old, becoming the youngest awardee at the time.

He believed Melbourne piano player Noel Mewton Wood to be the’most inspiring and intellectually strong musician Australia is ever known to produce’. He also arranged certain pieces of his music in 1944’s Tawny Pipit for solo piano.

Tozer also championed another Melbourne prodigy, pianist Noel Mewton-Wood, who died in 1953. Tozer said of him: “He was the most stimulating and intellectually powerful pianist Australia has ever produced. He had been completely forgotten before his work reappeared on CD and everyone realised how revolutionary his playing was.” Tozer first heard of him when he prepared to play Bach and Beethoven as a seven-year-old for Mewton-Wood’s former Melbourne teacher, Waldemar Seidel. “I played a few bars and he jumped up shouting, ‘Noel’s come back’. I had never heard of him, of course. But, after listening to his records, I realised it was the greatest musical compliment I’ve ever received.” Tozer arranged for solo piano some of the music written by Mewton-Wood for the 1944 film Tawny Pipit.

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Tozer received several major awards twice in his lifetime. He won his first Churchill Fellowship at 14 and won a second at 17; this was possible only because the Churchill committee decided to lower the minimum age by five years in recognition of Tozer’s talents. He was also twice awarded Israel’s Rubinstein Medal, in 1977 and 1980; on the first occasion, he was handed the prize personally by Arthur Rubinstein who described him as “an extraordinary pianist”.

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Geoffrey Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Geoffrey Tozer celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

He was awarded two consecutive Australian Artists Creative Fellowships, worth more than A$ 500,000 in total, in the 1990s. The grants were inaugurated after Paul Keating met Tozer while he was teaching at St Edmund’s College, the Canberra school where Keating’s son Patrick was a student. Keating, who cites Tozer as Australia’s greatest pianist, said he felt “ashamed” that a pianist of Tozer’s talents was earning only A$9,000 a year, so he introduced the fellowships (they are sometimes referred to as “the Keatings”) and the first five-year award in 1989 (A$329,000) went to Tozer. He was the subject of at least one political cartoon.