Hayden Chisholm

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Full Name	Hayden Chisholm
Occupation	Jazz Musician
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1975(1975-05-27)
Age	49
Birthplace	Otahuhu
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Auckland Region
Horoscope	Taurus

Hayden Chisholm Biography

Hayden Chisholm is one of the most popular and richest Jazz Musician who was born on May 27, 1975 in Otahuhu, Auckland Region, New Zealand. Hayden Chisholm (born 27 May 1975) is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand. He plays jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music.

He has been working with Rebecca Horn, a German artist, since 2000. His collaboration with Rebecca Horn is extensive. He composed the music for several site-specific installations, including “Moonmirror”, (Mallorca 2003), “Lumiere en prison” (Paris 2002), Spiriti de Madre Perla (Naples 2002), “Twilight Transit”, (NYC 2004), Heart Shadows(Lisbon 2005), and “Das Universum im Perle” (Berlin 2006). He was the assistant director of the Salvatore Sciarrino Op Luci mie traditrici Salzburger Festspiele in 2008. He composed the music to her film Fata Morgana, which premiered at Teatro La Fenice Opera House in Venice during the Venice Biannale 2009. He composed the music to her documentary film Moonmirror Journey, which was premiered in Berlin in 2011.

13 Views of the Heart’s Cargo (Moontower Foundation, 2013) (13-CD box set)

In 2015 Hayden Chisholm contributed to Waywords and Meansigns, a collaborative project setting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music.

Chisholm was awarded a DAAD scholarship to attend the Musik Hochschule, Cologne. Frank Gratkowski taught him saxophone. He was awarded the New Zealand Young Achievers Award in 1997, which allowed him to continue his education abroad. He also studied Carnatic music at Chennai and traveled extensively to the Balkans to learn the various musical traditions.

Hayden Chisholm Net Worth

Hayden Chisholm is one of the richest Jazz Musician from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hayden Chisholm 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chisholm was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand to parents Heather and Doug Chisholm. He first had musical experiences with Dixieland bands. At nine years old, he began to play clarinet. Two years later, he switched to the alto saxophone which became his primary instrument. His first recordings of jazz were recorded by Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Johnny Hodges and Sun Ra. He was part of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School Jazz Band and won the Most Outstanding Jazz Artist Award at the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga in 1991.

Chisholm’s studies in Cologne led to the development of a system for micro- tonal fingerings and “split scales” for saxophone. These were presented on his 1996 solo CD Circe, which Jazzhaus Musik released. These scales can be divided into perfect intervals by using quarter tones. His microtonal work was later included on Root70’s Root70 album Root70, 52nd 1/4 Street. This album won the German Critics Award.

In 2001 he composed music for the German Theater (Deutsches Schauspielhaus) in Hamburg, working on Maria Stuart by Schiller and Arabische Nacht by Schimmelpfennig. In 2006 and 2007 he was musical director of the Earth Festival in Kenya which featured a large cast of international musicians, including Huun Huur Tu. In 2008 he performed with David Sylvian on the “World is Everything” tour. Since 2006 he teaches a yearly masterclass on Mount Pilion in Greece in the village of Agios Lavrentios. His course “The G-string of Pythagoras” fuses saxophone, just intonation, ancient music theory, and improvisation. In 2008 he was assistant director at the Salzburg Festspiele of the Opera “Luci Mie Traditrici” by Salvatore Sciarrino. In 2012 Chisholm was featured in the feature documentary Sound of Heimat – Deutschland singt directed by Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler. In the film, Chisholm travels through Germany and explores authentic forms of German folk music. In 2013 he released a 13-CD Box set 13 Views of the Heart’s Cargo which presents his most important recordings dating back to 2001. The first CD in this box, Love in Numbers, features works for saxophone in which Chisholm explores the Fibonacci series as it manifests in the overtone series.

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Hayden Ranked on the list of most popular Jazz Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Hayden Chisholm celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.