Hayley Savage & Dimitris Dekavallas
Worcester Arts Workshop
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Hayley Savage
Hayley Savage
Composer and Guitarist
After graduating, Hayley won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Ivor Mairants Guitar Award, London and has since worked and performed in many countries, both as a soloist and as a member of the renowned Appassionata Guitar Trio, with whom she performs widely. The Trio has appeared at many prestigious venues including the South Bank and has been featured on several major radio stations.
Hayley has received many premieres of her own works, which are mostly commissions and range from concerti and symphonic music to choral pieces. Hayley's concerto English Fantasia for Guitar and String Orchestra, written for John Mills, has received many performances, in the UK, Scandinavia, the US and Canada, where it was broadcast on CBC Radio. Hayley has also composed music for Poet Laureate nominee U.A. Fanthorpe.
Following a commission for the Long Island Guitar festival's special 15th anniversary celebrations, Hayley was asked to make a return visit in 2008 to perform some of her own new works which appear on her latest solo album – Crossed Wires and Coloured Strings – which has since been endorsed by guitarist composer Andrew York and accepted by the record label Chandos to appear on their download site.
Recently she has appeared as a recitalist and tutor at the West Dean International Guitar Festival and was made Patron of the Worcester Classical Guitar Society, as well as featuring in a television documentary about the arts.
Recent events have included Hayley joining a select group of artists to appear in the Concert Promoters Network Brochure, a concert with the legendary guitarist Gordon Giltrap, a commission to compose a major work for the great jazz saxophonist Andy Shepherd – and a natural history project involving schoolchildren, a huge underground cave and a performance of Hayley's orchestral odyssey "Luna Nueva." Up and coming plans include a major new orchestral work and a performance on the South Bank with guitarist Dimitris Dekavallas, featuring the performance of Hayley's new duo "Double Helix."
"Hayley Savage's compositions display her enormous talents as a composer. Hers is a unique voice and she is one of the most gifted and creative individuals I have ever encountered."
Bruce MacCombie 28th July 2008 Composer/former Dean, Julliard School New York
"some of the most remarkable music I have ever had the privilege to hear.. a stunningly individual CD. This lady is walking her own path, sounding like nobody else and yet writing music that everybody should listen to."
Classical Guitar Magazine June 2009
"Classical, creative, contemporary and concise – Hayley employs arguably some of the most innovative and surprising approaches to the construction of her new compositions."
Acoustic Magazine April 2009
Hayley's website is » www.hayleysavage.com