Thomas Christoph Heyde

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. From 2001 to 2002 he was organizer of the concert series Sende(r)musik of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. (MDR). He was curator of several projects, including Interferences of Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art [de], Düsseldorf (1998), the Spinnerei-Festival for contemporary music, Leipzig/Dresden (1999-2001), the Musik-Zeit-Herbstfestival, Leipzig (2001), the Matrix-Herbstfestival for sound art, Leipzig (2003), the Grenzregionen-Festival for Eastern European music, Leipzig (2004), the project ost. etc, Leipzig (2003) and the art festival electric renaissance, Halle (2005). 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 WS 2012/13 he was a lecturer on John Cage and in WS 2016/17 on musical concepts after 1945 at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Leipzig.

Thomas Christoph Heyde (born 12 November 1973) is a German composer, media artist and curator. He is chairman of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig.

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. Via a special test he studied musical composition with Peter Herrmann and electroacoustic music with Eckhard Rödger at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1994 on. Thanks to two scholarships he studied from 1997 to 1999 as Meisterschüler [de] for composition with Friedrich Schenker at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and with Thomas Kesseler at the Elektronisches Studio Basel [de] of the City of Basel Music Academy.