The Bermuda Festival was inspiration for the formation of the Bermuda Brass Quintet where Kent filled the role of horn player for the groups inaugural headlining performance in 2016. Solo performance highlights include F Horn Concerto performances for the Bermuda Festival in 20, and a Haydn Concerto performance with the English Chamber Orchestra in 2015. Personal Musical highlights in his playing career include joining the Danbury Brass Band on a tour of New Zealand and Australia (2000), playing in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo with the Bermuda Regiment Band (2004) and playing horn for the Quincy Jones Orchestra in 2009. Conducting credits in the Bermuda Philharmonic Society Concerts, The Bermuda Musical School of Music’s Some Enchanted Evening concert, Duke University Choir with the Warwick Academy Jazz Band and the Bermuda Festival Choir in their accompanying performance with Tenor Unlimited in 2017. Hayward has played with the Daylesford Symphonia, BMDS, GNS Pit Orchestra, Bermuda Philharmonic Society Orchestra, the Bermuda Regiment Band and the Wall Street Band (Playing trumpet). Kent joined the Bermuda School of Music as Executive Director in 2015. During that time Kent served as President for the Bermuda Philharmonic Society for seven years. His second teaching appointment was as Head of Music at Warwick Academy for 15 years. Hayward served as a Primary School music teacher in the public education system for two years. While studying in Michigan, Kent subbed for the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
He majored on the F horn as a Music education major at Ashbury College in 1996 and went on to get his Master’s Degree in Horn Performance from Western Michigan University in 1998. His playing continued as a Warwick Academy music student under Warren Jones, where he was switched to F horn. Born to Bermudians Winslow and Gloriajean Hayward, Kent’s musical career started in the Salvation Army as a Bermuda Music Camp student at the age of 7 playing the E flat Alto horn.
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