Edward Torres Biography

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Theatre organist Edward Torres, 27, who fell in love with the popular music of the 1920s and 1930s by the age of 13, has been heard in numerous Southern California venues, such as El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall, Paramount Iceland ice rink, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, The Bob Baker Marionette Theatre and the magnificent Orpheum Theatre, one of Los Angeles' great movie palaces.

At his own request, Edward Torres, originally from Culver City, California, asked his parents to let him study music at 8 years of age.  He was inspired further by the recordings of Everett Nourse at the Wurlitzer of the FOX Theatre, San Francisco.

 At 14 years of age, a trip to El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall introduced him, in-person, to the impressive sound of the theatre organ. By 15, he became the protégé of organist Bill Field. Through Field's generosity and teachings Torres at 21 became the organist at the Old Town Music Hall. He currently serves as house organist at the famed and historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles. 

A former student of the American Theatre Organ Society Summer Youth Program, which holds a yearly theatre organ workshops for young/aspiring theatre organists, he currently teaches piano for the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department when not touring the United States to play the remaining remarkable theatre organs and the venues that house them.

Photo by Matias Bombal at the Jacobs Music Room