Robin Hayward

The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward was born in England in 1969, 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 cofounded the microtonal tuba trio Microtub and the microtonal tuba-double bass duo Reidemeister Move in 2010. He regularly records and tours both with these ensembles and as a soloist.