Welcome

Welcome to the official website of the Estate of Geoffrey Tozer, which is pleased to announce that The Eulogy, a full-length documentary on Tozer's life and art will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2018.

Legacy

The late Geoffrey Tozer (1954-2009) was a brilliant virtuoso pianist and composer, who at thirteen years old described himself as "a musician, not only a pianist."  His performance career lasted from 1963 until 2009 and took him to more than 45 countries with extensive performances in Australia, England, the United States, Russia, Hungary, and China.  As the full details of his career are assembled, it is becoming clear that he had one of the most extensive repertoires in the history of the piano, including nearly 200 concertos, a vast number of solo works, numerous chamber works, and vocal music.  Details of his performances will be published in full in the coming years in conjunction with details of his enormous recorded output.

Tozer's legacy is indeed vast.  The Tozer Archive includes more than 12,000 documents, 750 recordings of his performances, and a number of interviews from around the world, 3000 photographs, four portraits, film and video, prizes and awards from around the world, personal effects including performance apparel, 29 archival boxes of Tozer's annotated performance scores, 1500 books on music from his personal library, and his own drawings, caricatures and paintings, and more than 200 original Tozer compositions.

Given Tozer's prolific output, it is hardly surprising that the former Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Paul Keating, described Tozer as an artist worthy of recognition alongside the legendary Australian names of "Melba, Grainger and Sutherland" (see: Keating, After Words, Allen & Unwin, 2011)