Thomas Trotter

Thomas Trotter is one of Britain’s most widely admired musicians, boasting an international career which has been firmly founded on his relationship with the city of Birmingham. Appointed City Organist in 1983, in succession to Sir George Thalben-Ball, he now presides over two of Europe’s finest instruments in a remarkable partnership of past and present: the historic instrument in Town Hall, Birmingham (1834) and the modern Klais organ in Symphony Hall (2001). Now that Town Hall has re-opened, Thomas Trotter’s weekly series of organ concerts spans both Halls, playing to the contrasting but complementary strengths of these two outstanding instruments.

Thomas Trotter is also Organist at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey in London and visiting Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music, also in London. In 2002 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumental award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to classical music and in July 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England.

Alongside his weekly recitals in Birmingham, Thomas Trotter has toured throughout the USA, Europe, Australia and Japan, and has played at many international festivals such as Bath, Salzburg, Edinburgh and the Proms. Of his dozen or so recordings on the Decca label, his Messiaen and Mozart releases were named Gramophone magazine’s ‘Critics Choice’, and a Liszt recording won a Grand Prix du Disque in 1995.

Thomas Trotter’s Symphony Organ CDs

Thomas Trotter’s Town Hall Organ CD

Thomas Trotter events