Dory Hayley – i love evil | Redshift Records

Works by Morton Feldman, Rodney Sharman, Jordan Nobles, Cassandra Miller, and Katerina Gimon

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is the composer of some of the most profoundly radiant music of modern times, and his mesmerizing Three Voices, a “quiet tour de force,” is among his most powerful, affecting, and deeply human works. Scored for three equal voices but intended to be performed by a single singer accompanied by her own pre-recorded sounds, Three Voices is one of the most significant, original, and influential vocal works of the 20th century.
i love evil presents the monumental Three Voices alongside four newly commissioned multi-tracked vocal works inspired by Feldman’s masterpiece by four of Canada’s most thoughtful and innovative composers.

TRACKS
CD 1
1. Three Voices – Morton Feldman (1982)

CD 2
1. XYZ (2023) – Jordan Nobles
2.-4. Shadow/Light (2021) – Katerina Gimon
5.-8. Scenes from Macbeth (2021) – Rodney Sharman
9. How weird he must think the world is (2021) – Cassandra Miller

PERFORMER
Dory Hayley, soprano

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CREDITS
Recorded, edited, and mastered by Will Howie
Sharman recorded and edited by Piotr Wieczorek
Cover art by Mark McGregor
Feldman recorded September 23-26 and October 20-24, 2020 at St Paul’s Anglican Church
Nobles recorded June 7, 2021 at Telus Studio; Gimon recorded June 8-10, 2021 at Telus Studio; Miller recorded June 7-11, 2021 at Telus Studio; Sharman recorded January 5-7, 2022 at St Paul’s Anglican Church

This recording and the four commissioned pieces on it were made possible by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thanks to Jordan Nobles of Redshift Records for the logistical support, Katie Rife and Vern Griffiths for lending me their instruments, Kelly Nobles for the transcriptions, Manuel Laufer and Alejandro Ochoa for the critical and encouraging listening, and Will Howie for going way beyond the producer’s call of duty.

Soprano Dory Hayley is recognized as a leading voice in Canada’s contemporary and experimental music scene. Praised for her “very personal creative power” (Badener Zeitung) and her “amazing coloratura skills” (Opera Canada), she has been a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony, the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Allegra Chamber Orchestra, the Turning Point Ensemble, and Capriccio Basel, appeared in concert across four continents, and commissioned and premiered an expanding catalogue of new works.
An avid and adventurous collaborator, she has performed in festivals such as Sonic Boom, the Happening Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gulangyu Autumn Festival (China), Performer’s Voice Symposium (Singapore), and Festival Atempo (Venezuela), and with organizations like the SMCQ, Chants Libres, CIRMMT, Codes d’accès, Vancouver New Music, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Little Chamber Music, and the Land’s End Ensemble. She is a member of the Erato Ensemble, the Broadwood Duo, and the Hayley-Laufer Duo, and has recorded with Postcommodity, Sun Belt, and the Negative Zed ensemble. She is the Artistic Co-Director of the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival.
A former visiting artist at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative, and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Dory Hayley was Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at Mount Allison University in 2021-22. She is currently on faculty at Vancouver Community College. www.dorotheahayley.com