This is where you can find out about what I do: as a composer, and as a writer of books, programme notes, articles, and reviews on classical music.
Welcome to my website. Here you'll find information about my writing on classical music, and also about my composing. For lists of works, performances, available recordings, reviews, and ongoing projects, please click on the menu tabs on the left.
For all enquiries, please contact me at malcolmhayes@btinternet.com.
Music in Peebles 2017-18 concert season), Clare Hammond (above) gave the world première of From the Purgatorio of Dante for solo piano. Further performances followed at Oban, Milngavie, Ardrishaig, Perth Concert Hall, and Musselburgh.
(2) My Violin Concerto, a BBC commission for the Proms, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in August 2016.
The wonderful soloist was Tai Murray (above), with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Thomas Søndergård.
(3) In the premiere of my orchestral work Byzantium, Garry Walker conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios. To hear the Radio 3 recording, please click on the Listen to Music menu on the left.
To read Paul Conway's review in Tempo magazine (Cambridge University Press): please go to the Composing menu on the left, and click on the Performance Reviews submenu.
(4) The BBC Singers and their chief guest conductor Paul Brough have given the first performance of my choral work May Magnificat, in a concert in St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London. To hear a clip of the BBC Radio 3 recording, please click on the Listen to Music menu on the left.
(5) A beautifully sung recording of my Corpus Christi carol setting has been made by the Oxford Schola Cantorum, conducted by James Burton. To hear this, please click on the Listen to Music menu on the left.
To hear this and other works by me, please click on the Listen to Music menu on the left. Further information is on the Composing menu.
If you're interested in programme notes, preview features, or promotional material written to order, this is where to start looking. Please click on the Writing menu on the left.
To read reviews of this by Paul Driver (Sunday Times) and Ian Lace (MusicWeb International), please go to the Writing menu on the left, and click on the Book Reviews submenu.
For all enquiries about my writing or composing activities, please contact me at malcolmhayes@btinternet.com.
Rather than add my own blogspot to those already out there, this page will instead list the occasional link to someone else's thoughts - as below.