About Tony Heath

Grandfather Great Spirit,

Fill us with the Light.

Give us the strength to understand,

and the eyes to see.
Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives to all that live.

Tony Heath, jazz musician and visual artist, spent the first 25 years of his adult life pursuing a career as a musician in New York City.

As a young jazz musician he worked as an associate broker in the commercial real estate business in Manhattan, while establishing a professional career playing woodwinds and flute.

After leaving the real estate business in 1987, he performed evenings as a jazz musician while working days as a graphic designer at several top advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, and Young and Rubicam.

A lifelong love of nature and a commitment to conservation inspired him to found Birdland Ranch in 1997, where his enthusiasm for the land extends to his work as a photographer and avid jazz pianist.