Robin Haigh

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Robin Haigh
Born1993
United Kingdom
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician, Composer
Years active2014-Present
Website https://robinhaigh.com/

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

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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, and in 2021 was nominated in the Solo Works category. In 2022 he was voted joint-winner of the Composer Slam European Championship for his piece AESOP 2, which was performed in Hanover by Orchester im Treppenhaus. [13]

He studied composition at Goldsmiths, University of London and The Royal Academy of Music, with teachers including Dmitri Smirnov, Edmund Finnis, and David Sawer. [14]

Notable works

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References

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