Background
Hayden was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Balham, South London.
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Sam Hayden
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He returned to the University of Sussex to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in 1998.
Career
He played the trumpet, before turning to writing music at the age of nineteen, having found in the activity of composition "the perfect synthesis of the musical, the creative and the intellectual." He went on to study with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex, Joseph Dubiel and David Rakowski at Columbia University, and Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has also used the Open software (designed at IRCAM) to create computer-generated music Together with fellow composers Paul Whitty and Paul Newland he founded the amplified new music ensemble in 1995, who went on to appear at the Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, the International Cooperation Administration, Modern Art Oxford and the Brighton Festival.
His music has been published by Verlag Neue Musik, Faber and Composers Edition.
Since 1999, Hayden has held lecturing and research posts at the universities of Leeds, London, Durham and Sussex. In 2013 he was appointed the Reader in (Composition) at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of and Dance.
Samples of his research include: Towards al Interaction: Sam Hayden"s Compositions for East-Violin and Computer Collaboration and the Composer: Case Studies from the End of the 20th Century.
Achievements
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List of awards found at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of and Dance Hayden has been the recipient of many prizes and awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition (mv for orchestra, 1991/92) and the composition prize of the 4th Gaudeamus International Young Composers" Meeting 1998. He was awarded a summer 2000 residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, and a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship for Composition enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe at Stanford University in the autumn of 2001. He was also granted a 3-year Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Sunk Losses for orchestra, composed during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2002, won first prize in the second Christoph Delz Foundation Composers" Competition and received its first performance by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra during the festival Musik im 21. Jahrhundert, in Saarbrücken in May 2003.
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Awards
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List of awards found at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of and Dance Hayden has been the recipient of many prizes and awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition (mv for orchestra, 1991/92) and the composition prize of the 4th Gaudeamus International Young Composers' Meeting 1998. He was awarded a summer 2000 residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, and a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship for Composition enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe at Stanford University in the autumn of 2001. He was also granted a 3-year Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Sunk Losses for orchestra, composed during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2002, won first prize in the second Christoph Delz Foundation Composers' Competition and received its first performance by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra during the festival Musik im 21. Jahrhundert, in Saarbrücken in May 2003.List of awards found at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of and Dance Hayden has been the recipient of many prizes and awards including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition (mv for orchestra, 1991/92) and the composition prize of the 4th Gaudeamus International Young Composers' Meeting 1998. He was awarded a summer 2000 residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, and a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship for Composition enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe at Stanford University in the autumn of 2001. He was also granted a 3-year Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Sunk Losses for orchestra, composed during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2002, won first prize in the second Christoph Delz Foundation Composers' Competition and received its first performance by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra during the festival Musik im 21. Jahrhundert, in Saarbrücken in May 2003.