News Updates:
A Hymn to God the Father is now playing on all major streaming outlets (including Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube). John Stuntebeck, Michael Kleinschmidt and the Cathedral Choir at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, gave an amazing performance last March, and I am so glad we were able to record the piece.
Periferia Publishing is now selling A Hymn to God the Father for choir and organ, which was premiered and recorded by Saint Mark’s Cathedral Choir in March 2024. You can see and hear the piece on this site.
St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir premiered A Hymn to God the Father on March 3, 2024. Watch the video below:
the Green Hills Wind Symphony, with music director Ben Blasko, is performing Possibly for concert band at Lipscomb University in Nashville on September 24, 2023 at 3pm. Admission is free. Click for more information.
St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir performed Hear Us during their Sunday morning service on March 27, 2022. See video below:
An Audio Engineering Society meeting was hosted by the Music Production area at SPU on March 3, 2022. Micah Hayes gave the key presentation titled “How Seattle Pacific University Creates Streamable Online Concert Archives” explaining how he created a new system at SPU for archiving and streaming concerts that people can access through a web browser.
I’m Not Connected to Anything for solo flute was performed by Cara McKinley in an animated video in January 2021 (The piece won first prize in the National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition 2019 for the Solo Flute category)
Micah Hayes accepted the position of assistant professor of Music Technology and Director of Music Production at Seattle Pacific University beginning Fall 2020
Three new pieces for choir and organ are now published by Periferia Publishing in Barcelona, including Hear Us (text by John Donne), At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners (text by John Donne), and A Hymn of St. Ephrem (text by Ephrem the Syrian)
Possibly for Wind Ensemble performed by Andrew Trachsel and the UNT Wind Orchestra in Denton, TX on November 21, 2019. See video below.
An album featuring the work of Grammy award winning composer Michael Daugherty (recorded and mixed by Micah Hayes) was released on Albany records. Click here to see and hear the album.
Meditation for solo organ is now published by Periferia Publishing
Possibly for Wind Ensemble is now published by Murphy Music Press
Winner of the National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition 2019 in the Solo Flute category
Possibly for Wind Ensemble premiered at University of Texas at Arlington (March 2019)
Shorthorn article about building the new BA in Music Industry Studies at UT Arlington (February 13, 2019)
A 2018 interview with KERA in Dallas that talks about the Audio Production Camp for high school students for which I am the Camp Director
Audio Production
recording · live sound · mixing · producing
Spotify playlist of music recorded, mixed, and/or produced by Micah Hayes.
Film Scoring
film composer · recording engineer
Angelita returns home from prison in hopes of reuniting with the young child she left behind. When she discovers the child is nowhere to be found, she goes on a quest to find the baby, her hope, and her reason for living. Music by Micah Hayes. Click here to stream the entire first episode.
Concert Music
vocal · chamber music · large ensemble · solo
