| Rachel Hayward – 30 years of Pan Update  |
United Kingdom - Rachel started playing pan in 1985 with her school steel band — The Radcliffe Rollers — where she was encouraged and inspired by her teachers Richard Murphy and Neil Davison and tuner Michael "Natsy" Contant to create her first arrangements and compositions for solo and ensemble steel pans. After leaving school she continued her classical conservatoire training at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama and she holds an MA (music performance) from the City University, London. Since 1996 she has focused exclusively on pan. She won the UK Soloists Competition in 1989, and has performed throughout Europe and the Caribbean, most notably in Trinidad (the birthplace of steelpan) when she was the first, and to date, only, Briton to compete in the World Steelband Soloists Competition 1996 and was placed fourth overall. She has had several pieces composed for her including the opera Inkle and Yarico by Roxanna Panufnik, which premiered in Barbados in 1997, and most recently The Birmingham Spirituals by Patrick Larley and premiered in 2014. - See more at: http://www.panonthenet.com/woman/bio/rachel-hayward-3-10-2015.htm#sthash.9py128Rc.dpuf |
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