Fall 2025 – Featured Artists: Dory Hayley and Maggie Hasspacher

Vancouver Pro Musica Presents

Fall 2025 Featured Artists: Dory Hayley, soprano, and Maggie Hasspacher, double bass

Call for Scores

September 14, 2025, at 11:59pm: Deadline for submissions.
November, 2025 (Dates TBD): Readings/rehearsals of selected scores
November 22, 2025: Concert at Notional Space

Vancouver Pro Musica is pleased to invite all BC composers to submit new works for our Fall 2025 Featured Artists concert with Dory Hayley, soprano, and Maggie Hasspacher, double bass. Selected works for this concert will be presented on November 22 at Notional Space. All submissions will be blindly adjudicated, but in consideration of the specialties of our performers preference will be given to works utilizing extended techniques. The duo’s performance of Kurtág’s “Einege sätze …” is highly recommended pre-compositional viewing.

Composers are asked to contact us with technical requirements should you wish to write a piece with electronics, as we will have to assess feasibility before accepting the submission. A second soprano voice with Maggie Hasspacher is possible though she is “nowhere as technically trained as [her] lovely duo partner”. Maggie is a singer/songwriter/new music jazz singer. Libretto should be cleared for consent.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dory Hayley

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

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.

ITINERARY

  • Score Submission Deadline:
    Sunday, September 14, 2025, at 11:59pm
  • Notification of Results:
    Friday, October 3, 2025
  • Reading and rehearsal Date(s):
    Readings and rehearsals of the selected pieces will take place in late October/early November (exact dates TBD) and will be scheduled after the blind adjudication process has been completed and all pieces have been selected for presentation. The full schedule will be provided by October 13, 2025.
  • Concert:
    November 2025 (Date TBD), 7:30pm
    Notional Space (1523 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC)
    *there will be a sound check in the hours before the evening concert (schedule will be provided at least one week prior to the concert)

APPLICATIONS

Candidates must:

  • Be British Columbia residents.
  • Attend all events in the itinerary.
  • Provide all required performance materials (score, parts) in good time for rehearsals prior to the final concert.

Submitted works must:

  • Have been composed within the past 3 years.
  • Have not been previously performed at a Vancouver Pro Musica concert.
  • Have a duration of no more than 9 minutes in length (pieces 5-8 minutes preferred).
  • Be scored for both Featured Artists. Solo pieces may be considered, but preference will be given to scores written for the duo, especially those utilizing extended techniques. An additional soprano voice is possible. Please contact us with technical requirements before submitting if electronics are required.
  • Include 2 copies of the score: one copy anonymous for the jury adjudication of submissions.
    (Please read How to Prepare an Anonymized Score PDF)

    • Both notation and graphic scores will be accepted.

Submission Form:

  • Apply using the submission form below.
  • The Application fee is $18.
  • If you require accommodation, please contact the VPM administration at [email protected] prior to submitting your score.
  • Fee payments can be made via Paypal or cheque by mail.
  • Please make cheques payable to:
    Vancouver Pro Musica Society
    PO Box 78077 RPO Grandview
    Vancouver, BC V5N 5W1

All composers who submit applications:

  • Automatically become members in good standing of Vancouver Pro Musica
  • Are exempt from membership dues for one year

JURY

All submitted works will be adjudicated by an anonymous jury.

RECORDING

Composers whose works are presented will receive an archival recording of their work for non-commercial purposes. Please note that Vancouver Pro Musica may record and disseminate video and/or audio content for promotional purposes.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

https://www.dorotheahayley.com/

 

Submission Form

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