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CONDUCTING

I love to conduct and music direct! I am the music supervisor for Muriel's Wedding, which makes its UK premiere at Leicester CURVE in 2025. For this show, I won a Helpmann Award and a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Music Direction.

 

My other credits include Opera Australia (The RabbitsWest Side Story), National Theatre of Great Britain (The Secret River), New Zealand Opera (The Mikado), Queensland Theatre, Melbourne Theatre CompanySydney Theatre CompanyBroadway, and Music Talks (Cello Festival 2024, Peter and the Wolf).

I studied conducting at Queensland Conservatorium with Johannes Fritzsch, and have also worked with teachers such as Jorma Panula. I am also the artistic director and conductor of Hell's Kitchen Laboratory Orchestra, a project in New York where professional musicians play their secondary instruments.​​​​​​

The Three Cornered Hat
de Falla
The Miller's Dance

Hell's Kitchen Laboratory Orchestra, New York, USA

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Liszt
Excerpt

arr. Karl Müller-Berghaus
MÁV Symphony Orchestra
Budapest, Hungary

Pirates of Penzance
Sullivan
Nos. 6 & 7

Mabel: Nina Korbe, Frederic: Billy Bourchier
Queensland Performing Arts Centre
Brisbane, Australia

Pelléas et Mélisande
Sibelius
I. At the castle-gate

Kecskemét Symphony Orchestra
Kecskemét, Hungary

Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev
Excerpt

arr. David Matthews
MusicTalks
New York, USA

© 2025 Isaac Hayward

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