Robin Haigh

Robin Haigh (born 1993 in London) is an Irish/British composer of contemporary classical music.

Robin Haigh
Born	1993 United Kingdom
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Years active	2014–Present
Website	robinhaigh.com

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

• LUCK concerto for trumpet and orchestra (2024)
• Concerto for Orchestra (2023)
• THE DREAMERS quadruple concerto for four trombones and large ensemble (2022)
• AESOP 2 for untrained recorder soloist, large ensemble and electronics (2021)
• SLEEPTALKER for orchestra (2021)
• 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)