Professor Sam Hayden
Professor Sam Hayden
Hayden is Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban.
Sam Hayden studied composition with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey (University of Sussex), Louis Andriessen (Royal Conservatory, The Hague) and Brian Ferneyhough (Stanford University). He has been the recipient of many awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition and the 2003 Christoph Delz Foundation Competition for Composers. He has undertaken 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). His work utilises computer-assisted compositional techniques combining spectralist and stochastic approaches.
Research interests and areas of supervision:
- Composition (acoustic and digital)
- Interactive computer music
- Computer-assisted composition
- Contemporary music notation (included digitally-mediated)
- Approaches to improvisation
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
Biography
Commissions include works for Duo Antongirolami-Selva, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Séverine Ballon, Christopher Redgate and Cikada Ensemble, ELISION Ensemble, Duo Galeano-Javaid, Mieko Kanno, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Mosaik, Duo Öhman-Kordzaia, Frode Haltli and Oslo Sinfonietta, Quatuor Diotima, RepertorioZero, Mats Scheidegger 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, Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn.