Background
Heywood was born in Melbourne.
Heywood was born in Melbourne.
He is the first Australian musician in history to live as a professional concert organist. He began playing the organ at a very young age, and gave his first public performance at the age of five. He performed in the Sydney Opera House aged 17.
Heywood tours widely, and has played a large range of organs in concert halls, town halls, cathedrals, festivals and churches around the world.
He has a repertoire of over 5,000 works, and has recorded more than twenty albums of organ music receiving both popular and critical acclaim. Heywood has also transcribed many famous classical and romantic pieces for solo organ, and his arrangements are widely performed by other organists.