Europe's Top Pan Woman is performing a unique classical steelpan recital as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe.
Come to Preston Park, Brighton, to enjoy some of the most beautiful music in the world played on steelpans and marimba, with special guest - Jim Bernardin.
Please note this concert is being held at
Preston Old Church, near Preston Manor.
(not Great St Peter's, on the Level)
Tickets available on the door.
For eleven years Rachel Hayward has been delighting audiences throughout Britain and Europe with her eclectic mix of calypso, soca, pop, ska, jazz, reggae, MOR and popular classics. She performs extensively at a wide variety of corporate, civil and private functions, parties, balls, and recitals, and has many repeat bookings with such diverse clients as Debenhams, Eurotunnel, the British Army and Navy, Oakwood Theme Park (Wales) and Wyevales Garden Centres. Recent engagements include Mosimann's and London Boat Show.
Uniquely for a pannist Rachel trained as an orchestral double bass player at the Guildhall School of Music and holds an MA (music performance) from the City of London University, and as a pan player her unparalled credentials include winning the UK Steelpan Soloist's Competition, and performing throughout Europe and the Caribbean, most notably in Trinidad (the birthplace of steelpan) when she was the first Briton to compete in the World Steelband Soloists Competition 1996 and was placed fourth overall. She has since performed with such prestigious emsembles as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Recent media credits include Meridian TV's "Three Minutes", "Woman's Hour "(BBC Radio4) and Radio 3 's "Music Matters". She has played with top British and Trinidadian steel orchestras including Starlift and Hummingbirds Pan Groove and she was the first European pannist to arrange for and conduct a top Trinidadian steel orchestra - The Skiffle Bunch . She arrranges for Eclipse Steel Orchestra (London); they played her arrangement of excerpts from Khatchaturian's Masquerade Suite at the First European Steelband Festival in Paris 2000.
She is a published author and her arrangements for steelpans are available from Panyard Inc, Ohio, and Piper Publications; she now runs her own music publishing company - "Steel-works". Her steelbands in Britain and Trinidad regularly win awards in both national and regional competitions, and perform at such presigious venues as the Royal Albert Hall, and The Royal Festival Hall, London, England. She is tutor and consultant for TAPS (Traditional Arts Projects) and Steelbands North, and advises the Society for the Promotion of New Music, Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music on their steelpan projects. She is guest pan tutor at the Royal College of Music.
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