Harpist Hayley, was born in Southampton in
1975. She began playing the harp at the age of ten and in 1991 gained a
place on the Hampshire Specialist Music Course in Winchester. In 1994 she
was awarded a Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music where she
graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1998, having been awarded the Renata Scheffel-Stein Prize and the Dorothy Day Award. Hayley completed her
studies with Skaila Kanga on the Post-Graduate Performers Course in 1999,
also at the Royal Academy.
Her
harp orchestral work has included performances with the European Union Youth
Orchestra, The Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, English
Symphony Orchestra, British Youth Opera, Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra,
Britten-Pears Orchestra and many amateur orchestras. Recent theatre work
includes My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), The King and I
(London Palladium), Elergies (Pleasance Theatre, London) Wind in the
Willows and Musical Director of Shakespeare’s The Tempest both at the
Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. Hayley has recently performed with the Moscow
City Ballet (Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty)
and Broomfield Opera Company (Carmen). Concerto performances include the
Dittersdorf Harp Concerto with the Surrey Sinfonieta at Fairfield Halls, Croydon,
the Handel Harp Concerto with 21 other professional harpists with the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales at St David’s Hall, Cardiff and a performance of the
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with the Bath Philharmonia. Hayley has recorded
Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with the Royal Holloway College University
Choir. She has also worked with Black Dyke Brass Band, Bit 20 (Norway’s
contemporary music ensemble). Hayley has been a Classical Soloist on the Page
and Moy and Fred Olsen Cruise Ships since 2000. Hayley also regularly works
with her flute and harp duo, The Angel Duo playing both recitals and corporate
functions.
As a
background musician, she regularly plays for weddings, parties, corporate
functions, restaurants and hotels including venues such as The Landmark, The Kai
Restaurant, The Hyde Park Corner and Mayfair Intercontinental, as well as many
country hotels. Hayley is also a keen on jazz playing with Frances Ruffle
at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in 1998 and attended the first European Jazz Harp
Festival in Germany in 2000 with tutors Park Stickney and Harvey Griffen.
Her
harp orchestral work has included performances with the European Union Youth
Orchestra, The Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, English
Symphony Orchestra, British Youth Opera, Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra,
Britten-Pears Orchestra and many amateur orchestras. Recent theatre work
includes My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), The King and I
(London Palladium), Elergies (Pleasance Theatre, London) Wind in the
Willows and Musical Director of Shakespeare’s The Tempest both at the
Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. Hayley has recently performed with the Moscow
City Ballet (Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty)
and Broomfield Opera Company (Carmen). Concerto performances include the
Dittersdorf Harp Concerto with the Surrey Sinfonieta at Fairfield Halls, Croydon,
the Handel Harp Concerto with 21 other professional harpists with the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales at St David’s Hall, Cardiff and a performance of the
Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with the Bath Philharmonia. Hayley has recorded
Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with the Royal Holloway College University
Choir. She has also worked with Black Dyke Brass Band, Bit 20 (Norway’s
contemporary music ensemble). Hayley has been a Classical Soloist on the Page
and Moy and Fred Olsen Cruise Ships since 2000. Hayley also regularly works
with her flute and harp duo, The Angel Duo playing both recitals and corporate
functions.