Sam Hayden studied composition with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex, and with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag. He has been the recipient of many awards, including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition, Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship (2001), enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University. He also won first prize in the 2003 Christoph Delz Foundation Composers' Competition.

Here, Hayden’s complex and arresting trio for flute, violin and percussion, System/Error, is coupled with two large-scale works performed by Ensemble Mosaik and his newest work, Misguided, written for Elision.

Track Listing:
1. System/Error
Trio La Berge

2. Presence/Absence
Ensemble mosaik / Enno Poppe

3-8. Misguided
Elision / Eugene Ughetti

9. Die Modularitäten
Ensemble mosaik / Enno Poppe