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Paul Hayward
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Paul Hayward is an experienced, qualified and versatile musician with extensive experience of working to high standards. He specialises as a baton/stick conductor, as well as a choral director, orchestrator and arranger.
Paul received a broad musical education, becoming his school's organist and principal accompanist before reading music at the University of Wales, where he was the Musical Director of the University Music Society Orchestra and Chorus. Following graduation, Paul pursued a career in church and cathedral music, working in numerous cathedrals as organ scholar, choral scholar, assistant director of music, and as the organist of a public school. During this time he played for services, concerts, tours, examinations, musicals, recordings, broadcasts (including live on the BBC) and a royal visit, as well as giving solo organ and harpsichord recitals. Paul has played with several chamber orchestras as a keyboardist (piano, organ, harpsichord, harmonium, celesta) as well as working on a number of musical theatre productions as AMD, rehearsal pianist or keys player.
Since moving on from cathedral music, Paul now works as a Musical Director, Orchestrator and Arranger. He is the MD for three choirs and a chamber orchestra, as well as a regular keys chair for concerts and play-through days with the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, and a repetiteur for play-through days (or 'Sitzes') with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra. He regularly leads 'come and sing' events and choral days, as well as working with other groups. In recent years, Paul has conducted a wide variety of repertoire, including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's The Creation, and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, all with chorus, orchestra and professional soloists. He has a large number of arrangements and orchestrations for sale or hire, including an orchestration of Elgar's From the Bavarian Highlands for chamber orchestra and choir, an orchestral reduction of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by jury, and a large number of male voice choir arrangements, including pieces by the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
Paul's qualifications include a PhD in music composition from the University of Aberdeen, for which he was awarded a University Carlaw-Ogston Scholarship, as well as a MMus in vocal composition from the same institution. During his time at Aberdeen, he studied with Professor Phillip Cooke, as well as royal composer Professor Paul Mealor. His numerous other qualifications include being a prize-winning recipient of the Royal College of Organists' Choral Directing Diploma (awarded the Gerald H. Knight memorial prize) as well as receiving the Licentiate Diploma of Trinity College, London in organ performance with distinction, and the Diploma in Composing and Arranging from the Independent Contemporary Music Awards with high distinction.
Paul is proficient in programming and performing with Apple Mainstage and industry-standard sample sets, and uses this as the heart of his keyboard rig that he takes to concerts and shows. He has also used the Sibelius family of musical publishing software for several decades, currently using Sibelius Ultimate and NotePerformer 5 to orchestrate, arrange, typeset and publish scores.
Paul is available for work in his main areas of expertise: baton/stick conducting, choral direction, sacred and choral music, musical theatre, keys playing, orchestrating, arranging and typesetting. This can be as a one-off or longer term engagement.
A full CV is available upon request.
Paul received a broad musical education, becoming his school's organist and principal accompanist before reading music at the University of Wales, where he was the Musical Director of the University Music Society Orchestra and Chorus. Following graduation, Paul pursued a career in church and cathedral music, working in numerous cathedrals as organ scholar, choral scholar, assistant director of music, and as the organist of a public school. During this time he played for services, concerts, tours, examinations, musicals, recordings, broadcasts (including live on the BBC) and a royal visit, as well as giving solo organ and harpsichord recitals. Paul has played with several chamber orchestras as a keyboardist (piano, organ, harpsichord, harmonium, celesta) as well as working on a number of musical theatre productions as AMD, rehearsal pianist or keys player.
Since moving on from cathedral music, Paul now works as a Musical Director, Orchestrator and Arranger. He is the MD for three choirs and a chamber orchestra, as well as a regular keys chair for concerts and play-through days with the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, and a repetiteur for play-through days (or 'Sitzes') with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra. He regularly leads 'come and sing' events and choral days, as well as working with other groups. In recent years, Paul has conducted a wide variety of repertoire, including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's The Creation, and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, all with chorus, orchestra and professional soloists. He has a large number of arrangements and orchestrations for sale or hire, including an orchestration of Elgar's From the Bavarian Highlands for chamber orchestra and choir, an orchestral reduction of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by jury, and a large number of male voice choir arrangements, including pieces by the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
Paul's qualifications include a PhD in music composition from the University of Aberdeen, for which he was awarded a University Carlaw-Ogston Scholarship, as well as a MMus in vocal composition from the same institution. During his time at Aberdeen, he studied with Professor Phillip Cooke, as well as royal composer Professor Paul Mealor. His numerous other qualifications include being a prize-winning recipient of the Royal College of Organists' Choral Directing Diploma (awarded the Gerald H. Knight memorial prize) as well as receiving the Licentiate Diploma of Trinity College, London in organ performance with distinction, and the Diploma in Composing and Arranging from the Independent Contemporary Music Awards with high distinction.
Paul is proficient in programming and performing with Apple Mainstage and industry-standard sample sets, and uses this as the heart of his keyboard rig that he takes to concerts and shows. He has also used the Sibelius family of musical publishing software for several decades, currently using Sibelius Ultimate and NotePerformer 5 to orchestrate, arrange, typeset and publish scores.
Paul is available for work in his main areas of expertise: baton/stick conducting, choral direction, sacred and choral music, musical theatre, keys playing, orchestrating, arranging and typesetting. This can be as a one-off or longer term engagement.
A full CV is available upon request.
