PLAYING
I love playing! My main instrument is the piano, and I play guitar and cello as secondary instruments. My work as a pianist includes orchestral work (Vancouver Symphony, Albany Symphony, Orchestra Victoria), Broadway (Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, Bad Cinderella, MJ, Suffs), cabaret (Meow Meow, Debbie Gravitte, Mama Alto), recording, pop, art-song, and more.
On the guitar, I've played with artists such as Jon English and Lagoona Bloo, played on Broadway (Spamalot, Bad Cinderella), and for other theatre shows such as Mary Poppins in Australia, and for Unmasked at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
On the cello, I've played for The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival, National Theater of Great Britain), The Rabbits (Opera Australia) and have toured with Kate Miller-Heidke for her Zero Gravity and Child in Reverse tours.
When Sue Wears Red
by Ricky Ian Gordon & Langston Hughes
live performance, Charleston, SC
baritone: Schyler Vargas
piano: Isaac Hayward
End of the Line
by John Adams & Mark Adamo
live performance, Charleston, SC
mezzo-soprano: Lindsay Metzger
piano: Isaac Hayward
Where?
by Kate Miller-Heidke
arranged by Iain Grandage
piano/conductor: Isaac Hayward
trumpet/flugelhorn: Callum G'Froer
violin: Stephanie Zarka
guitar/electronics: Keir Nuttall
bass: Andrew Johnson
When He Gets Home
by Lacy Rose
arranged by Isaac Hayward
produced by Lacy Rose & Isaac Hayward
mixed by John Kilgore
vocals: Lacy Rose
piano: Isaac Hayward
violins: Masha Polishchuk, Kate Goddard
viola: Nicky Kaynor
cello: Valeriya Sholokhova
bass: Max Jacob
Lucky
by Kate Miller-Heidke
live performance in Perth
vocals: Kate Miller-Heidke & Jess Hitchcock
guitars: Keir Nuttall & Sam Pankhurst
cello & electronics: Isaac Hayward
live mixing: Karl Cashwell
Samson
by Regina Spektor
a little COVID recording project, for which I played piano, guitar, cello, bass — all the instruments in my home.
