Sam Hayden (born 1968) is an English composer of classical and electronic music and an academic.
[7] Hayden's works include Collateral Damage (1999), which was performed in 2003 by Ensemble InterContemporain in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Substratum (2006, revised 2008), a BBC Proms commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra,[4] and misguided (2011) for the ELISION Ensemble.
His most recent work is a string quartet, Transience (2013–14), commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Quatuor Diotima for performance at the Spitalfields Winter Festival, 2014.
[13] He was awarded a summer 2000 residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, and a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship for Music Composition enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe at Stanford University in the autumn of 2001.
[5] Sunk Losses for orchestra, composed during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2002, won first prize in the second Christoph Delz Foundation Composers' Competition and received its first performance by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra during the festival Musik im 21.