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'''Tessa Uys''' is a [[concert pianist]]. She was taught to play by her mother [[Helga Bassel]] in South Africa. She made her concert debut at the age of 13 and performed with both her mother and father, [[Hannes Uys]], who was also a concert pianist.{{r|Tidboald}} She went to the [[Royal Academy of Music]] in London in 1967 where she studied under [[Gordon Green (pianist)|Gordon Green]]. In her final year at the college, she won the [[Macfarren Medal]].{{r|IMC}} She subsequently made her home in [[Highgate]].{{r|CNJ}}
Her mother died in 1969 and, when her father died too in 1990, Tessa donated her mother's [[BlΓΌthner]] grand piano to the [[Jewish Museum in Berlin]]. The piano had been brought to South Africa when she moved there as a Jewish refugee from Germany.{{r|Zahra}}
==References==
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<ref name=Zahra>{{citation |last=Auslander |first=Leora |pages=261β263 |title=Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement |last2=Zahra |first2=Tara |date=2018-05-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-2008-6 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name=Tidboald>{{citation |last=Tidboald |first=David |page=163 |title=People I Made Music with |date=2011-09-13 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa |isbn=978-1-4152-0418-4 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name=CNJ>{{citation |url=https://www.maestromusic.co.za/Tessa Uys.htm |newspaper=Camden New Journal |date=15 April 2004 |title=When pianist Tessa Uys sold her fatherβs house in South Africa she stumbled upon a family secret β her mother was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis |author=Dan Carrier}}</ref>
<ref name=IMC>{{citation |url=https://www.impulse-music.co.uk/tessauys/ |title=Tessa Uys |publisher=Impulse Music Consultants}}</ref>
</references>
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{{short description|Concert pianist}}
{{use British English |date=September 2025}}
'''Tessa Uys''' is a [[concert pianist]]. She was taught to play by her mother [[Helga Bassel]] in South Africa. She made her concert debut at the age of 13 and performed with both her mother and father, [[Hannes Uys]], who was also a concert pianist.{{r|Tidboald}} She went to the [[Royal Academy of Music]] in London in 1967 where she studied under [[Gordon Green (pianist)|Gordon Green]]. In her final year at the college, she won the [[Macfarren Medal]].{{r|IMC}} She subsequently made her home in [[Highgate]].{{r|CNJ}}
Her mother died in 1969 and, when her father died too in 1990, Tessa donated her mother's [[BlΓΌthner]] grand piano to the [[Jewish Museum in Berlin]]. The piano had been brought to South Africa when she moved there as a Jewish refugee from Germany.{{r|Zahra}}
==References==
<references>
<ref name=Zahra>{{citation |last=Auslander |first=Leora |pages=261β263 |title=Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement |last2=Zahra |first2=Tara |date=2018-05-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-2008-6 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name=Tidboald>{{citation |last=Tidboald |first=David |page=163 |title=People I Made Music with |date=2011-09-13 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa |isbn=978-1-4152-0418-4 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name=CNJ>{{citation |url=https://www.maestromusic.co.za/Tessa Uys.htm |newspaper=Camden New Journal |date=15 April 2004 |title=When pianist Tessa Uys sold her fatherβs house in South Africa she stumbled upon a family secret β her mother was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis |author=Dan Carrier}}</ref>
<ref name=IMC>{{citation |url=https://www.impulse-music.co.uk/tessauys/ |title=Tessa Uys |publisher=Impulse Music Consultants}}</ref>
</references>
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