Robin Haigh

Robin Haigh (born 1993 in London) is a composer of contemporary classical music.

Career

In 2017, Robin Haigh won a BASCA British Composer Award at the age of 24 for his recorder quintet, In Feyre Foreste.[1][2][3][4] His piece Zorthern features on the NMC Recordings label performed by Luke Carver Goss and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.[5] In 2018, he was chosen to be a part of the London Symphony Orchestra's Soundhub scheme,[6][7] as well as PRS for Music's Accelerate scheme,[8][9] and the University of Sheffield's workshop with the Ligeti Quartet.[10] In 2019 he was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia to write a piece for chamber orchestra, supported by the William Alwyn foundation.[11] In July 2019, he was announced as a 2019-20 Royal Philharmonic Society composer, leading to a commission for the 2020 Presteigne Festival.[12] He won an Ivor Novello Award in the Chamber Orchestral category in 2020.

He studied composition at Goldsmiths, University of London and The Royal Academy of Music, with teachers including Dmitri Smirnov, Edmund Finnis, and David Sawer.[13]

Notable works
  • No One for solo harp (2020)
  • Grin for chamber orchestra (2019)
  • Aesop for solo recorder and eight players (2019)
  • Twenty One Minute Pieces for four players (2018)
  • Zorthern for solo accordion and six players (2017)
  • In Feyre Foreste for five recorders (2016)
  • 1936 for two narrators and large ensemble (2016)
  • The Man Who Woke Up, opera in one act (2014)
  • Samoyeds, movement from a string quartet (2018)

References
  1. "2017 British Composer Award Winners Announced". British Composer Awards. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. "Academy success at the 2017 British Composer Awards". Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. "Winners of 2017 British Composer Awards announced". Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. Wright, Katy. "Winners of 2017 British Composer Awards announced". Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. "Featured composer: Robin Haigh". M-magazine. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  6. "Six composers appointed for Soundhub and LSO Jerwood Composer+ Programmes for 2017/18". London Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  7. Wright, Katy. "LSO reveals 2017/18 Soundhub and Jerwood Composer+ intake". Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  8. Wright, Katy. "PRS for Music announces inaugural Accelerate intake". Rhinegold Publishing. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  9. "Composers chosen for PRS for Music's inaugural Accelerate initiative". PRS for Music. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  10. "Ligeti Quartet Workshop". Centre for New Music at Sheffield. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  11. "Britten Sinfonia with Benjamin Grosevnor". Barbican. Barbican. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  12. "Introducing the new RPS Composers". Royal Philharmonic Society. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  13. "Haigh, Robin". NMC Recordings. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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