OUR FEATURED ARTIST AT NEW AGE CD IS: JILL HALEY
Jill Haley is an oboist, English Horn player, pianist and composer who visits National Parks, often as an Artist in Residence, and composes music about the park while living there. After her first residency at Mesa Verde, she was invited to Badlands, Glacier, Wrangell/St.Elais, Bandelier, Petrified Forest, Big Cypress, Acadia, Homestead National Monument, and Shenandoah National Park. She composes music while she is there, shoots video, and then does a concert at the end of the residency.
Her music is performed and recorded in a chamber music style for piano, oboe, English horn, guitar and cello. She has performed her music in venues such as university concert series, music festivals, National Parks and Carnegie Hall. Glacier National Park provided inspiration for her 1st recording, “Glacier Soundscapes,” then she recorded music about Zion, Bryce Canyon and Mesa Verde.
During the National Park Centennial Year in 2016, Jill released “National Park Soundscapes,” which is a collection of pieces about 12 National Parks celebrating the Centennial Year. Other recordings are “The Winds of Badlands,” “The Waters of Glacier,” “The Canyons and Mesas of Bandelier,” and “Wrapped in Light,” which was written during the pandemic and based on nature images in the Book of Psalms. In September 2022, “The Forests and Shores of Acadia” was released, featuring music she composed during her residency there in 2021. Following the Acadia release, Alaskan Soundscapes came out in 2023, and Colors Collide, Music about Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, was released in 2024.
Her 9 recordings are heard regularly on music streaming platforms and radio stations throughout the world. 6 of her pieces are in regular playing rotation on Sirius/XM Radio. Jill has put together 2 National Parks Suites which have been arranged for solo oboe/English horn and orchestra. These 4 movement suites include music Jill has written about Glacier, Mesa Verde and Badlands. They are often performed with video of the images that inspired the music.
National Parks Suite #1 was performed in June 2021 at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania and will be presented in November 2022 as part of the York Symphony Classical Concert Series. National Parks Suite #2 was performed by Berks Sinfonietta in June 2022. In the fall of 2025 National Park Suites #2 will be performed with the Yakima, WA Symphony and York Symphony Orchestra, PA. Jill has received grants to compose music for other organizations too.
The Reading Musical Foundation funded a new piece to be written about the night sky for the Warshal King Dance Troupe to do live streaming performances of original choreography to the piece. Perkiomen Valley Public School District is providing funding for her to come into the schools and share master classes on composition for the music classes, video editing with the photography classes, perform a concert, and write a piece about the indigenous people of Delaware County, PA (Where the district in located.) The piece was arranged and performed by the school band in concert.
During the pandemic Jill performed monthly National Park concerts with different themes on Facebook Live with funding provided by the local musicians union. Jill’s music is available at www.amazon.com and all the usual streaming sites (Spotify, iTunes etc.). Visit www.jillhaley.com to see videos of her many projects and view upcoming events. Her music scores are available through www.jwpepper.com
Official artist website: www.jillhaley.com
