Dory Hayley – i love evil | Redshift Records

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

RELEASES ON MARCH 4, 2023

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

CD 2
1. Scenes from MacBeth – Rodney Sharman
2. Storm and Silence – Katerina Gimon
3. XYZ – Jordan Nobles
4. Fry – Cassandra Miller

PERFORMER
Dory Hayley, soprano

CREDITS
Recorded and edited by Will Howie
Scenes from MacBeth recorded and edited by Piotr Wieczorek
Cover art by Mark Takeshi McGregor

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