Robin Hayward

Robin Hayward (born 1969) is an English tuba player and composer, based in Berlin since 1998. He works in experimental and improvised music and is known for redesigning his instrument: he found the noise-valve technique in 1996 and built the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009, which led him to the Hayward Tuning Vine in 2012. Hayward studied music at the University of Manchester and tuba at the Royal Northern College of Music, and played in the improvised music scenes of Manchester and London before moving to Germany, where he became part of the Berlin Echtzeitmusik scene.