Bass & Voice

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Vancouver Pro Musica is excited to present Dory Hayley, soprano, and Maggie Hasspacher, double bass, who will perform 10 NEW works by BC composers for bass and voice at Notional Space.

Programme (not in running order)

• Am Scheideweg (at a crossroads), David Ko
• I would have, Ramsey Sadaka
• Jongleur Fragments, Dubravko Pajalic
• Notes on Mushrooms, Jennifer Butler
• Of the sea, Alfredo Santa Ana
• On A One Ton Temple Bell, Pauline MacDonald
• Sleep, Jason Nett
• Tutorial: if you want to know everything, Robyn Jacob
• From Love Withdraw, Michael Trew/Angel Edwards
• Woven, Glenn Sutherland

Artists

Dory Hayley, soprano

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 worked with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Cassandra Miller, and Diógenes Rivas, created roles in Mark Haney’s Omnis Temporalis and Michael James Park’s Diagnosis Diabetes, and commissioned and premiered an expanding catalogue of new works.

Dr. Hayley has been a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony, the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Allegra Chamber Orchestra, the Turning Point Ensemble, and Capriccio Basel, and has appeared in recital across four continents. 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, Little Chamber Music, and the Land’s End Ensemble.

An avid and adventurous collaborator, her performances have ranged from early music to free improvisation. 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.

Dory Hayley is an enthusiastic and sought-after adjudicator, clinician, and teacher, and a former visiting artist at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative, and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and a frequent Musician in Residence at the Banff Centre. On faculty at Vancouver Community College since 2015, she served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at Mount Allison University in 2021-22. She holds performance degrees from the University of British Columbia, McGill University, and Université de Montréal.

Maggie Hasspacher, double bass

Maggie Hasspacher is a bassist, vocalist and songwriter based in Vancouver, BC. She is the principal bass of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, extra musician with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and principal bass of the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. She also performs internationally as a solo artist, featured by such presenters as the Lucerne Festival’s Forward Festival in Switzerland, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Day of Music, Quarantine Concerts based in Sweden, and Sunday Sound Streams based in Los Angeles. She has sung on soundtracks for TV shows on the History Channel and PBS, given live solo radio performances for KPCC-FM Los Angeles and WLRN-FM Miami, and released recordings through labels Purple Mollusk Music and R-Team Duo Recordings.

As a member of Grammy-nominated LA-based ensemble Wild Up, her singing has been mentioned in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times and she was interviewed by Strad Magazine as a bass/voice artist in the January 2020 issue. Dr. Hasspacher also has a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Michigan in bass performance and pedagogy.

ACCESSIBILITY INFO

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Accessibility information for the venue is available here. Please note that Notional Space is a residence. As such, you will likely be asked to remove your shoes before taking your seat.

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