Thomas Christoph Heyde

Thomas Christoph Heyde (born 12 November 1973) is a German composer, media artist and curator. He is chairman of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig. Life Heyde was born in Leipzig in 1973 as the son of a pastor. From the age of seven he was trained on the piano and later received private composition lessons from Lorenz Stolzenbach. Without passing his Abitur he first completed a pharmaceutical education and worked as a nurse in a Leipzig hospital. and with Thomas Kesseler at the of the City of Basel Music Academy. From 1998 to 2006 he taught the new media art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and was head of the electronic studio there. Since 2003 he is artistic director of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig (FZML). He organized among others the international art and music project Cage100 (2012/13) and the transmediale project ABENDMAHL – “diminishing horror increasing love”. In the winter semester 2012/13 he was a lecturer on John Cage and in 2016/17 on musical concepts after 1945 at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Leipzig. He writes mainly orchestral and chamber music. His compositions have been broadcast by Deutschlandradio, Deutschl