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Keys of Gold Festival | Let’s Go to the Opera!

To conclude the 2026 Keys of Gold Festival, join us for an afternoon of operatic delights in the Victorian glory of St Paul’s Cathedral. With highlights from Carmen, The Thieving Magpie, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, The Merry Widow, Faust – and more – two rising stars from the Melba Opera Trust: Chloe James and

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Keys of Gold Festival | Flourish and Flair!

Flourish and Flair! A title truly spoken for the ever-popular combination of Trumpet and Organ! The historic splendour of St Kilian’s Church, Bendigo – including the internationally-significant 1871 German-built pipe organ – will take on new meaning in the world-premiere of a newly-commissioned work by Australian composer Gordon Kerry: a piece honouring not only Henry Backhaus, the first Catholic priest

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Keys of Gold Festival | Mozart and More!

Mozart and More – in the amazing acoustic of Long Gully Uniting Church – will be a concert to remember. With Mozart’s mighty Flute Concerto in G major as the centrepiece, performed by the outstanding Masahide Kurita as the soloist, mentored by Sir James Galway himself, and with Thomas Heywood as the orchestra on the beautiful pipe organ in Long

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Keys of Gold Festival | Inglewood Double Day

Vivaldi’s complete The Four Seasons in the beauty of St Augustine’s Inglewood – with the recently completed ‘Grandfather’ Fincham pipe organ in St Augustine’s as the ‘orchestra’ – for a rare performance of Vivaldi’s complete masterwork for violin and organ. After a Vivaldi-inspired Fantasia and Fugue by the great J.S. Bach himself, Thomas Heywood and the brilliant baroque violinist Lizzy

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Keys of Gold Festival | The Bold, the Beautiful and the Bizarre!

Who needs a soap opera! With some bold masterworks from Franz Liszt, bizarre music from Dame Judith Weir – the former Master of the King’s Music, and beautiful music from Bach and Puccini, this is a program devised by Merlyn Quaife AM with Thomas Heywood to ensure there’s no “Who shot J.R.” cliffhanger needed at the end! No one will

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Keys of Gold Festival | Celestial Sounds

After a delicious lunch in the Castlemaine district, make the short 15-minute trip to beautiful Maldon for Celestial Sounds to wrap up a “Castlemaine and Maldon” day! What better title for a concert with cello and organ? The expressive brilliance of the cello, coupled with the grandeur and colour of the organ, makes for “Celestial Sounds” indeed – and all

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Keys of Gold Festival | Long live The King of Instruments!

Long live The King (of Instruments) – as the great Mozart called the pipe organ! And then Beethoven famously said that “Organists are the greatest of all virtuosos”! The recently completed Grand Organ in St Paul’s Cathedral, Bendigo has been over 140 years in the making. Thomas Heywood will put this magnificent instrument through its paces in this showstopper program,

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Keys of Gold Festival | A Majestic Duo

A Majestic Duet of Violin and Organ in the stunning Forest Street Uniting Church. The acclaimed violinist Patrick Savage, together with Thomas Heywood, bring the rarely-heard combination of violin and organ to life in repertoire as diverse as the famous Adagio from Bruch’s Violin Concerto to Monti’s Czardas, with Bach, Kreisler, Rachmaninoff and more – not forgetting Tartini’s Devil’s Trill

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Inaugural Keys of Gold festival turns heads!

Castlemaine Double | Keys of Gold Festival | Bendigo Fine Music  12 July, 2025 Castlemaine Uniting Church and Christ Church, Castlemaine, VIC Bendigo Chamber Choir, Michael Bottomley (Director), Thomas Heywood (Organ) There is nothing more exciting to a festival pass holder than someone announcing to the queue that the concert is sold out and there will be no sales at

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Organist Thomas Heywood celebrates 200 years of the organ in Australia

Thomas Heywood | Grand Organ Recital 20 June 2025, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC The first organ arrived in Australia on a convict ship and was delivered to Van Dieman’s Land, or as we know it now, Lutruwita/Tasmania in 1825. Its arrival is cause for celebration both then and now and this 200 year anniversary was the theme for Thomas Heywood’s

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Young organ performers delighted and wowed us – the pews were shaking!

The Scots’ Church International Organ Series | Concert 4: Student Recital  September 14, 2024, The Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC Organ and harpsichord students from Thomas Heywood, Jennifer Chou, Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence Opportunities for performance are an essential part of the development of young musicians, they are also a wonderful opportunity for us as listeners to hear loved or

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