After graduating, Hayley won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Ivor Mairants Guitar Award, London and has since worked and performed in many countries, both as a soloist and as a member of the renowned Appassionata Guitar Trio, with whom she performs widely. The Trio has appeared at many prestigious venues including the South Bank and has been featured on several major radio stations. Hayley has received many premieres of her own works, which are mostly commissions and range from concerti and symphonic music to choral pieces. Hayley’s concerto English Fantasia for Guitar and String Orchestra, written for John Mills, has received many performances, in the UK, Scandinavia, the US and Canada, where it was broadcast on CBC Radio. Hayley has also composed music for Poet Laureate nominee U.A. Fanthorpe.

Following a commission for the Long Island Guitar festival’s special 15th anniversary celebrations, Hayley was asked to make a return visit in 2008 to perform some of her own new works which appear on her latest solo album – Crossed Wires and Coloured Strings – which has since been endorsed by guitarist composer Andrew York and accepted by the record label Chandos to appear on their download site. Last year she appeared as a recitalist and tutor at the West Dean International Guitar Festival and was made Patron of the Worcester Classical Guitar Society, as well as featuring in a television documentary about the arts.