Sam Hayden

Sam Hayden studied composition with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex, Joseph Dubiel and David Rakowski at Columbia University, Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University. He has been the recipient of many awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition and first prize in the 2003 Christoph Delz Foundation Competition for Composers. He has had composition residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbria, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and computer music collaborations with NOTAM, Oslo, and the Centre Henri Pousseur, Liège.

Recent commissions include works for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Séverine Ballon, Christopher Redgate and Cikada Ensemble, ELISION Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Mosaik, Frode Haltli and Oslo Sinfonietta, Quatuor Diotima, RepertorioZero and Steamboat Switzerland, performed at festivals including Ars Musica (Brussels), BBC Proms (London), Música Contemporánea Fundación BBVA (Bilbao), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Images Sonores (Liège), London Ear Festival, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Musik im 21. Jahrhundert (Saarbrücken), Spitalfields Winter Festival (London), Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn.

Other performers of Hayden’s works include ASKO Ensemble, Ensemble Antidogma, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Canto Battuto, Ensemble Cattrall, De Ereprijs, Ensemble Ernst, Ensemble Exposé, Gruppe für Neue Musik Baden, Takao Hyakutome, Ictus Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Mieko Kanno, Kokoro Ensemble, José Menor, Darragh Morgan, NYYD Ensemble, Ian Pace, Mats Scheidegger, Ensemble Surplus, Uroboros Ensemble, Ine Vanoeveren and Orkest de Volharding. Hayden is Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. His music is published by Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin) and Composers Edition (UK).

Biography

Sam Hayden studied composition with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex, Joseph Dubiel and David Rakowski at Columbia University, Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University. He has been the recipient of many awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition and first prize in the 2003 Christoph Delz Foundation Competition for Composers. He has had composition residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbria, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and computer music collaborations with NOTAM, Oslo, and the Centre Henri Pousseur, Liège.

Recent commissions include works for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Séverine Ballon, Christopher Redgate and Cikada Ensemble, ELISION Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Mosaik, Frode Haltli and Oslo Sinfonietta, Quatuor Diotima, RepertorioZero and Steamboat Switzerland, performed at festivals including Ars Musica (Brussels), BBC Proms (London), Música Contemporánea Fundación BBVA (Bilbao), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Images Sonores (Liège), London Ear Festival, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Musik im 21. Jahrhundert (Saarbrücken), Spitalfields Winter Festival (London), Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn.

Other performers of Hayden’s works include ASKO Ensemble, Ensemble Antidogma, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Canto Battuto, Ensemble Cattrall, De Ereprijs, Ensemble Ernst, Ensemble Exposé, Gruppe für Neue Musik Baden, Takao Hyakutome, Ictus Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Mieko Kanno, Kokoro Ensemble, José Menor, Darragh Morgan, NYYD Ensemble, Ian Pace, Mats Scheidegger, Ensemble Surplus, Uroboros Ensemble, Ine Vanoeveren and Orkest de Volharding. Hayden is Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. His music is published by Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin) and Composers Edition (UK).

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Substratum

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Die Abkehr

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presence/absence

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Wired

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Digital Discoveries 5: Here Be Monsters

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Digital Discoveries 7: Standing Jump

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Digital Discoveries 8: Loopholes

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