Background
Doris Ernestine Hays was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1985 adopted her grandmother"s family name of Sorrel.
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Sorrel Hays
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Education
She studied music with Harold Cadek at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, graduating in 1963. She then studied with Paul Badura-Skoda and Rudolf Kolisch at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, graduating with a Master of Music degree. After completing her studies, Hays taught at Cornell College in Iowa, and then moved to New York City where she studied with pianist Hilde Somer.
Career
She continued her education for three years studying with Friedrich Wührer and Hedwig Bilgram at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany. She is now known as one of the world"s foremost performers of cluster piano music In 1998 Hays was director of a graduate program in electronic music at Yildiz University, Istanbul.
She has also taught as a guest lecturer at colleges and universities including Vassar and Brooklyn College.
