Thomas Obeth (born 2000) began his musical journey at Vor Frue Kirke in Assens as a member of the church’s over 160-year-old boys’ choir. Already during his high school years, he secured his first organist appointment in a rural parish near his hometown. He subsequently served as the organist at Vor Frue Kirke in Assens and, from 2023 to 2025, at Haderslev Domkirke. Starting in 2025, Thomas will assume the role of vice-chairman of the Danish Organ Society, and since 2024 he has also been the editor of its specialist magazine— Orglet — while maintaining an active concert career throughout the country.
After completing his secondary education, Thomas received instruction from Torben Krebs in Odense before commencing his formal studies at the Danish music conservatories. Financially supported by various funds, he has been a private student under Professor Roman Summereder in Vienna since 2022, with a special focus on the Austrian organ school and the twentieth-century organ repertoire. Additionally, he has participated in masterclasses held by several prominent organists, such as Hans-Ola Ericsson, Henry Fairs, Eric Lebrun, and Peter Planyavsky, notably at the highly acclaimed summer academy in Haarlem, Holland.
Thomas has established himself on the Danish organ scene as a specialist in the twentieth-century repertoire—centered on composers such as Anton Heiller, Frank Martin, and Paul Hindemith, whose complete organ works he has performed in five critically acclaimed concerts. As a soloist, he has played on some of Denmark’s finest and largest organs. In the summer of 2023, Thomas published three articles in Danish and Swedish specialist journals on Heiller’s life, work, and compositional techniques. A natural outgrowth of his academic and artistic engagement with Heiller’s music is a recently initiated research project on the composer’s final major work — Vesper (1977).
(Last updated: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, translated via AI)