Mr. Tyrone Hayes serves as Assistant Professor of Voice for the Department of Music at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama, where he teaches applied voice, fundamentals of music, and serves as the director of ASU's vocal jazz group, Trebled Soul, and as cooridantor of the ASU Opera Workshop.

Mr. Hayes is currently a Doctor of Musical Education candidate at William Carey University of Southern. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Southern Mississippi, and received the Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from Southeastern Louisiana University and the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Orleans. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he made his debut with Opera Créole as Mazaquil in Treemonisha. 
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Roles that Mr. Hayes has performed include Marcello in La Bohème, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Count Monterone and the title role in Rigoletto, the title role Gianni Schicchi, Tonio in I Pagliacci, The Wolf in Seymour Barab's Little Red Riding Hood, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville. On the concert stage he has been a soloist in the premiere of Edwin Penhorwood's An American Requiem, Faure's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, and Charpentier's Christmas Oratorio.
 
His teachers include Dr. Maryann Kyle, Dr. David Bernard and Dr. Valerie Francis. He has worked with vocal coaches Janna Ernst, Wayne Wyman, Dr. Jeffrey Peterson and Jerome Shannon.