bio
“From the time I was five, I knew I wanted to create music for the big screen. Instead of baby dolls, I preferred to carry around VHS tape cases of my favorite films. To this day, my family still can’t find The Little Mermaid VHS.”
Margy Hayes is a classically-trained composer for film, TV and video games, who resides in New York City. Throughout most of her life, music has been both an outlet and a safe haven. Her goal throughout her career is to create music that both connects and transcends. So far, she has worked on a vast number of diverse projects in media and on stage, and continues to freelance, seeing where her music will take her.
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Margy Hayes is an in-house composer and producer associate at Found Objects, where she creates music for commercials, podcasts, and film. Her work is a work in progress that is constantly attempting to push any envelope.
Growing up on a small barrier island in Georgia, Margy began playing the oboe at twelve. She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts and served as principal oboist in the Coastal Youth Symphony under Maestro Luis Haza, experiences that fueled her passion for musical collaboration.
She earned dual Bachelor’s degrees in Music Composition and Film Production from Georgia State University, followed by a Master’s in Film Scoring from NYU Steinhardt, where she studied composition and songwriting with industry veterans like Michael Patterson, Irwin Fisch, and Dr. Joseph Church (Lion King On Broadway, Little Shop Of Horrors). She also trained in music editing under Suzana Peric (Lord of the Rings, Silence of the Lambs).
Margy has worked at 4 Elements Music and Arketype Trailer Music, providing music for NBC, ABC, Netflix, and VICE Media. She has also worked at Roc Nation as an assistant to the CEO, Desiree Perez and, in 2021, was selected for SCL’s Mentorship Program. In 2022, she collaborated with composer Gil Talmi on Battleground, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Her experience also spans to roles as a Dub Engineer, Composer, and Studio Manager at New Math Music, where she contributed to campaigns for brands like Progressive, Samsung, Google, Uber Eats, Fitbit, and Fanta.
In her free time, Margy enjoys aggressively binging film theory essays and anime with her husband, creating elaborate shenanigans / outings for her future dog, obsessing about trivial things, and occasionally swallowing the world in Katamari Damacy.
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