Trish Hayward, formerly Tricia Martin de Gélis, is an Australian singer/composer/ pianist/ guitarist living in France.
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After a lengthy singing career in France, mainly in opera, contemporary classical music, French chanson and jazz, Trish now composes her own songs in a style of Prog Pop.
Après une carrière en France principalement dans l'opera, la musique classique contemporaine, la chanson Francaise et le jazz, Trish compose désormais ses propres chansons dans une style de Pop Progressive.
Biography of Trish Hayward
Originally Trish Martin, Trish finished her studies at the Adelaide Conservatorium in 1981, then did a Diploma of Education in 1982 at the Adelaide University.
From 1983 she continued her vocal studies in Canberra, where she started a career in opera, cabaret and theatre as an actress, composer and musical director. She cofounded the Black Inc Theatre company with former members of the Doug Anthony AllStars. They started working in French Chanson, mainly Piaf and Brel, which led her to France in 1987 with a study Scholarship.
In France she was soon engaged by the Radio France Choir, then the National Opera Companies of Lyon, and of Paris. She worked with many acapella ensembles, ( Musicatreize, le Jeunes Solistes, le Groupe Vocal de France...etc) and as a soloist with orchestra in classical contemporay music, performing in many different countries all over the world.
She has given many recitals and written ‘cabarets lyriques’ ( Cocteau, Honneger), as well as ‘The Must of Mozart’ au Tambour Royal a Paris and Tahiti. She received the Charles Cros Prize pour the recording of a work by Christine Menesson ‘Sur les champs lisses de l’infini..’ on the CD ‘Solem’.
She performed solo at the Festival d’Avignon with the pianist Jeff Cohen. ‘Brecht et la Musique’, performed at the Musee Calvet was broadcast live on Radio France Culture. She also writes her own shows ( Opera Terra Australis, about the exploration and discovery of Australia). At the moment she is widely performing ‘SlamOperaBouffe’ co-written recently and performed with Michel Dreano.
She has put out a CD of her songs and works, ‘Broken Suitcases’ available on Bandcamp.
As an author she has recently been published in an American alternative poetry journal with her poem ‘All they needed was one kiss’, a poem about child abuse, inspired by the phrase 'Ces messieurs la' in the book ‘Respect’ by the French actress Anouk Grindberg in 2025.
Trish now regularly writes and performs with the guitarist Jack Ada.
