Robin Haigh | |
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| Born | 1993 United Kingdom |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Composer |
| Years active | 2014-Present |
| Website | https://robinhaigh.com/ |
Robin Haigh (born 1993 in London) is an Irish/British composer of contemporary classical music.
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]