 In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō.In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year after.Hayasaka won a number of prizes for his early concert works; in 1935, his piece "Futatsu no sanka e no zensōkyoku" won first prize in a radio competition, and another concert piece, "Kodai no bukyoku", won the 1938 Weingartner Prize.