Robin Haigh


Robin Haigh 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. His piece Zorthern features on the NMC Recordings label performed by Luke Carver Goss and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2018, he was chosen to be a part of the London Symphony Orchestra's Soundhub scheme, as well as PRS for Music's Accelerate scheme, and the University of Sheffield's workshop with the Ligeti Quartet. In 2019 he was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia to write a piece for chamber orchestra, supported by the William Alwyn foundation. In July 2019, he was announced as a 2019-20 Royal Philharmonic Society composer, leading to a commission for the 2020 Presteigne Festival.
He studied composition at Goldsmiths, University of London and The Royal Academy of Music, with teachers including Dmitri Smirnov, Edmund Finnis, and David Sawer.

Notable works

Grin for chamber orchestra
Aesop for solo recorder and eight players
Twenty One Minute Pieces for four players
Zorthern for solo accordion and six players
In Feyre Foreste for five recorders
1936 for two narrators and large ensemble
The Man Who Woke Up, opera in one act