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 “The most compelling music making of any kind I’ve heard in ages”
The Dallas Morning News, USA
The internationally acclaimed organ virtuoso Thomas Heywood enjoys an outstanding reputation as one of the world’s finest concert organists.
As the first and only Australian musician in history to live as a professional concert organist, Heywood is celebrated as "an acknowledged master" for his spoken introductions and truly unique ability to make the greatest music of all time come alive on the King of Instruments. He has an amazingly comprehensive repertoire of over 5,000 works.
Touring annually around the world, the latest international solo tour of "The Wizard from Oz" dazzled audiences and critics alike in Concert Halls, Town Halls, Cathedrals and Churches throughout North America, the UK and Europe.
Since 1994, Heywood has also performed more concerts in Australia than any other organist, maintaining a demanding schedule around the country performing to thousands each year.
Also a talented and prolific transcriber, Heywood’s solo concert organ arrangements of the most famous classical and romantic music are published for world-wide distribution. Heywood is also performing and recording his arrangements of the complete Beethoven symphonies for concert organ solo, becoming the first solo artist in history to successfully perform these musical landmarks.
Born into a Melbourne musical family in 1974, Heywood was acknowledged to be a child prodigy giving his first public performance at five after commencing musical studies at the age of four. He has since performed on thousands of occasions ranging from a celebrated recital in the Sydney Opera House at the age of 17 to touring in venues reading like an encyclopaedia of the world’s most famous organs from the largest pipe organ in New York City to Windsor Castle.
Heywood’s solo concerts are administered by Concert Organ International – the management, recording, publishing, marketing and distribution company he founded in 1997 with his wife and manager Simone.
Regularly inaugurating new and restored organs, in 2001 he performed the opening solo concert on the largest musical instrument in the southern hemisphere – the Grand Concert Organ in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Since 1992 when he released Australia’s best-selling organ recording at only 18 years of age, Heywood’s many recordings have all been popular sell-out successes receiving extraordinary international critical acclaim. In 2001, his monumental recording "Who Needs An Orchestra!" broke organ sales records selling out within two hours of release. Heywood’s performances have been broadcast internationally on television and radio.
Not confined to the “organ world”, Heywood’s phenomenal success in reaching out to the vast concert-going public has made the critics boast that he “reincarnates Edwin H. Lemare”, the greatest concert organist of the twentieth century.
"What a stunning player Thomas Heywood is. His flawless technique is just the platform from which truly artistic and memorable performances flow."
The Editor’s Choice – Organists’ Review, UK
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