BC Advisory Council 2022-2023
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Dory Hayley (Chair), 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 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 Modulus Festival, 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.
Jennifer Butler (b. 1976) is a composer and flutist living in Vancouver, BC.
Her music, described as “beautifully remote” (Vancouver Sun), “intimate” (Globe and Mail), and “disquieting” (Vancouver Observer), has been commissioned, performed, and broadcast across Canada, in the United States, Australia, and Europe. She loves working with quiet and fragile sounds, but will often juxtapose these with loud, forceful outbursts of sound. Silence, organic change, layered textures, and holding and releasing tension are important qualities in many of her compositions.
Jennifer has been commissioned and performed by outstanding artists such as Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto), The Victoria Symphony, the Western Front (Vancouver), Redshift (Vancouver), the Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, Bradyworks (Montreal), the Emily Carr String Quartet (Victoria), the Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver), Nu:BC (Vancouver), and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Recent projects include: Songs for Klee Wyck, commissioned by Victoria’s Emily Carr String Quartet; Four Horses, a song cycle written with Peter Anderson for Mark McGregor, Dory Hayley and Adrian Verdejo; The Stars Have Closed Their Eyes, commissioned by Bradyworks; held in the hand, commissioned by the Vancouver Inter-cultural Orchestra; Stolen Materials Stolen Time, commissioned by Standing Wave; The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, commissioned by Vancouver New Music; Under Bleak Skies, commissioned by Redshift for Aventa at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre; and Unvanishing, a collaboration with video artist Terry Billings and the Saskatoon Symphony.
In 2010 Rachel Iwassa released Cosmophony, a large project that brings together the work of eleven Canadian composers writing about the cosmos, including Jennifer’s piece Neptune. In 2009 Mark McGregor released his new recording Different Stones, which features Jennifer’s work Sky and in 2007 Vancouver duo Tiresias recorded For Dreams of Things that Cannot Be on their CD Delicate Fires, which was nominated in 2008 for a West Coast Music Award.
As both a composer and a performer, Jennifer Butler often collaborates with other artists on multi-disciplinary projects. Since 2002 she has been collaborating with CURV, an experimental interdisciplinary ensemble with composer-performers Kristy Farkas and Marci Rabe. In April 2007, CURV was commissioned by Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto) to create and perform 20 Silent Words, an hour-long piece incorporating sound, text, movement and image. One of her major artistic influences has been her long term participation, as composer and performer, in R. Murray Schafer’s annual interdisciplinary project And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon.
Jennifer was the President of the council for the Canadian League of Composers from 2011-14 , and currently sits on boards for Vancouver’s Redshift and Standing Wave, and the Canadian New Music Network (CNMN). She is also on the Advisory Council for the Canadian Music Centre, BC region.
Jennifer completed a DMA (2009) in composition and a Master’s degree (2002) at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Bachelor’s degree (1999) in composition at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON.
Bass trombonist Sharman King (BMus’70) has enjoyed a long and varied career in Western Canada. While attending UBC he was a member of the legendary Cave Theatre Orchestra house band under Fraser MacPherson. After graduating from The University of British Columbia in 1970 Mr. King joined the Buddy Rich Orchestra. While with “Buddy’s Band”, Mr. King toured 34 states and performed at the Newport, Monterey and Concord Jazz Festivals.After a year playing tuba in a sing-along band in the “Your Father’s Mustache” club, Mr. King joined the faculty of The University of Calgary where he taught Music Theory and Stage Band. The U of C Stage Band featured performances with jazz notables Woody Shaw, Oliver Gannon and Ian McDougall and is believed to be the first “for university credit” stage band course in Canada.
Applauded as a composer whose ‘poetic is often very delicate and introspective…’ (Guido Barbieri, Warner Classics), Rita Ueda’s orchestral, operatic, and choral works invite the listener to contemplate, engage, and converse. Winner of the 2022 Azrieli Prize in Canadian music, her works have been premiered by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Prague Modern, and the SYC Ensemble Singers (Singapore). Ms Ueda holds degrees from Simon Fraser University and the California Institute for the Arts where she studied with Rudolf Komorous, Rodney Sharman, Wadada Leo Smith, and Morton Subotnick. Her latest recordings are I Solisti Della Scalla – Octets (Warner Classics) and Il Viaggio di Dante (Stingray Classica).
Stefan Sunandan Honisch is currently an Honorary Research Associate and Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, having held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in the department from 2019 to 2021. He is Co-Director of the SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative grant, “Facilitating Anti-Ableist Remote Music Making,” and Co-Applicant for the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, “Canadian Accessible Musical Instruments Network.” He has contributed peer-reviewed articles to Journal of Inclusive Education, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Journal of Teaching Disability Studies, and chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, among other publications. In addition to maintaining an active program of research, teaching, and service, Honisch enjoys being a freelance musician.
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