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Jill Haley
OBOE & ENGLISH HORN
Jill performs on oboe and English horn in both
improvisational and classical settings as well as
composing her own music inspired by the beauty
of our National Parks. She has been an Artist in
Residence at 10 National Parks over the last decade
which has afforded her the opportunity to live in
a park while creating music about the park. Jill
has released several recordings of National Park
music on her own label which have been placed
on numerous radio and music services, including
several tracks on satellite radio, Sirius/ XM Radio.
These recordings are available at Amazon.com and
on numerous digital services.
Her National Park music with video is shared with audiences throughout
the country at National Parks, music festivals, and concert series. She was
commissioned to write a piece about the Lenape Ancestral People of Delaware
county, PA, and received a grant to share her music about Petrified Forest National
Park, AZ, in Flagstaff as part of their ArtX Festival.
Jill is also an artist on the Spotted Peccary Record Label creating ambient music
with the founder of this label, Deborah Martin. The duo has released 2 recordings
with a 3rd planned for release in 2025.
In the last few years, she has begun to have arrangements created for some of
her National Park music to be performed as a soloist with orchestras. Three
National Park Suites as well as a Suite of music drawn from her pandemic project,
“Wrapped in Light,” have been performed by the York, PA Symphony, Providence
Chamber Orchestra and Berks Sinfonietta. Yakima Symphony Orchestra shared
National Park Suite #2, arranged by David Himes, at their season opening concert
this year featuring their English horn player as the soloist.
After touring nationally with founder Windham Hill Records and guitarist, Will
Ackerman, for many years, she continues to share English horn and oboe lines on
recording projects at Imaginary Road Studio. She has also been a guest soloist on
two of Will Ackerman’s recordings and performed original English horn lines on
Laura Sullivan’s Grammy award winning recording, “Love’s River.”
Please visit www.jillhaley.com for more information.
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