The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward was born in England in 1969, and since 1998, he is living in in Berlin. He has introduced radical innovations in brass instruments, first by discovering the "noise valve" in 1996 and later by developing the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In 2012, he invented the Hayward Tuning Vine, partly in order to represent the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. In 2005, he founded the ensemble Zinc & Copper, and in 2010 cofounded the microtonal tuba trio Microtub and the microtonal tuba-double bass duo Reidemeister Move. He regularly records and tours both with these ensembles and as a soloist.
As of January 2022