The former Bellevue Hill home of the late conductor and composer Tommy Tycho, known as ‘The Maestro’, has hit the market
The former Bellevue Hill home of the late conductor and composer Tommy Tycho, known as ‘The Maestro’, has hit the market.
Treasured by the Jewish, Hungarian and entertainment communities, Tycho was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1928 to Jewish parents who had converted to the Lutheran faith.
The son of an opera singer, Tycho began playing the piano at an early age and was soon declared a musical prodigy.
Landing in Australia in 1951, Tycho had an incredible career spanning 60 years, working with and mentoring such Australian musical talent as John Farnham, Marina Pryor, Anthony Warlow and Julie Anthony.
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Views and a pool.
He bought the three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit with double parking at 6/24-26 Bellevue Rd, Bellevue Hill for $685k in 1989 and lived there with his wife,Eve.
Bradfield BadgerFox director Bob Guth and Ziggy Kugel are now selling the “oversized boutique apartment in the heart of the village” with a $2.8m guide.
It’s an emotional sale for Guth – ‘The Maestro’ was his godfather and he grew up with Tommy and Eve’s daughter, Vicky.
“We played together as children, so it is quite an emotional thing. My father sponsored Tommy to come to Australia because my father had come a few years earlier,” Guth says.
He also remembers visiting Vicky at their previous large family home in Ponsonby Pde, Seaforth.
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The home has a $2.8m price guide.
One of the home’s three bedrooms.
Nestled in a tightly-held block of just eight.
The block boasts generous surrounds.
“I remember it had a tennis court, but Tommy got rid of the tennis court and put in a swimming pool … we had many happy summers around that pool.”
Tommy and Eve downsized to the Bellevue Hill unit, and Guth reckons a downsizer will snap it up this time.
“Anyone who wants level access, being close to shops and walking distance to synagogues,” he says.
From 1980-90, Tommy worked with Vicky as a double act known as the Duelling Pianos.
He died at the age of 84 after a stroke in late 2015 and when Eve died a few years later it became a rental property for Vicky.
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