In this concert

Tuba/Composer Robin Hayward (Berlin)  presents new works for and by Austin musicians using The Hayward Tuning Vine

Pedalsteel / composer Bob Hoffnar
Flute Seetha Shivaswamy
Percussion Chris Cogburn
Trombone Michael St.Clair
Bass Thomas Helton (Houston)

Robin Hayward

The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward was born in Brighton, England in 1969. He studied classical music at the University of Manchester and tuba at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he graduated in 1991. In following years he was active in the improvised and experimental music scenes in Manchester and London. Since 1998 he has been based in Berlin.

He has introduced revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments, initially through the discovery of the ‘noise-valve’ in 1996, and later through the development of the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In 2012 he invented the Hayward Tuning Vine, partly out of a desire to visualise the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. In 2005 he founded the ensemble Zinc & Copper to explore brass chamber music from an experimental music perspective.