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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: If you've seen the movie Shine, you know the story of David Helfgott and his struggle with mental illness. His life is an extraordinary testament to the healing power of music.

Despite little fanfare, a boisterous audience filled the Blue Note to capacity when the Australian pianist David Helfgott, who was depicted in the movie "Shine," returned to New York on Monday. By ...

Renowned Australian pianist David Helfgott has been asked to choose soothing classical music as part of an innovative research project to help reduce stress levels in children with autism. "It mellows ...

Adelaide maintains a special connection for pianist David Helfgott and his wife Gillian as the location for director Scott Hicks’ acclaimed movie portrayal of the musician’s tumultuous life, Shine.

DAVID Helfgott is one of Australia's most prolific and treasured musicians. Almost 20 years on from the film that catapulted him on to the world stage, Helfgott continues to tour internationally to ...

In the early afternoons in the yard of his 1.5-hectare home in Gleniffer, at the foot of the Great Dividing Range, David Helfgott, bald, bespectacled and slightly stooped, as though ever ready to lean ...

Applauding wildly at every possible opportunity - before, after and in between the movements of the longer works, and even in the middle of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - David Helfgott's is not a ...

1 Review: San Diego Opera Performs Bizet's CARMEN at San Diego Civic Center Legendary concert pianist, David Helfgott, will embark on his Farewell, South Africa tour in September with performances ...

In 1997, the film Oscar-winning masterpiece SHINE catapulted Australian legendary piano virtuoso David Helfgott onto the largest and most venerable music stages in the world. Now, 25 years later, ...

David Helfgott was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1947. He showed extraordinary pianistic ability from an early age, winning the state finals of the ABC's Instrumental & Vocal Competition six times.