Hayden Taylor

Hayden Taylor is an emerging composer based in Melbourne. Currently in his final year of music studies undertaking a Bachelor of Music Composition and Diploma of Pure Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, he has studied composition with Elliott Gyger, Stuart Greenbaum, Melody Eötvös, Calvin Bowman, and Christine McCombe.

In 2024, Hayden is completing a student composer residency at the Percy Grainger Museum (supported by IgniteLAB). Other groups that have performed his work include the Melbourne Conservatorium Saxophone Ensemble, MYRIAD (Melbourne Conservatorium Percussion Ensemble), Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and the Grainger Wind Symphony.

Hayden explores how his interests in advanced mathematics, spirituality, and history can be applied to music and enjoys dreaming, thinking, and theorising about the relationships between these fields. He seeks to create new and unique soundscapes that reflect personal emotions, working with players to create rewarding performance experiences for performer and listener alike.

A keen cellist, he studies cello with Richard Narroway and has performed his own music and with others, in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings. Hayden particularly enjoys historically informed performance and has performed continuo at the Melbourne Conservatorium showcase concert representing the Early Music Faculty.