Hayley Savage
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Hayley Savage studied classical guitar with Rod Faulkner, and John Mills from the age of fifteen. She was offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music to study guitar and piano, choosing the RWCMD where she continued her lessons with John. She twice won the RWCMD Guitar Prize.
Since graduating in 1996, Hayley has established a dual career in performance and composition. She gives solo recitals or duo concerts with violinist Roger Huckle and flautist Claire Heaney, or trio concerts (guitar with John Mills and Cobie Smit). Hayley regularity performs with Bristol's professional Emerald Ensemble. She has performed her own compositions and the Aranjuez Guitar Concerto with symphony orchestras / chambers.
Hayley has had twelve premieres of her own works, mostly commissions. Her compositions have ranged from concerto and symphonic music to choral music. Her concerto, written for John Mills in 1995 "English Fantasia for Guitar and String Orchestra" has now received nine performances in England, Europe and Canada – where it was broadcast in 2002 on CBC Radio.
In 1999 Hayley won the Worshipful Company of Musicians Ivor Mairants Guitar Award and was subsequently interviewed on Radio 3 Music Matters as to the effect this award would have on her career in performance and composition.
External link
The Guitar Circle (http://www.theguitarcircle.com/hsavage.aspx)