FINDING HER VOICE is a journey through sound, history, and identity, curated and performed by Beverley Johnston. The recording brings together works by Julie Spencer, Christos Hatzis, Samuel Kerr, Frederic Rzewski, David Jaeger, and Johnston herself, whose two structured improvisations frame the album with personal reflection.
Each piece resonates with the album’s central theme: the search for voice through iconic and historic female figures. Spencer’s Angels in Arches of Hildegard’s Bingen honors the visionary abbess Hildegard von Bingen; Hatzis’s Eris revisits mythic goddesses of wisdom, love, and power; Kerr’s November pairs marimba with Robert Frost’s poetry; Rzewski’s To the Earth invokes Mother Earth as an eternal feminine presence; Jaeger’s Lyrics II pays tribute to Canadian composer Norma Beecroft; and Johnston’s The Crystal Gazer reflects Sara Teasdale’s poetic voice.
Together, these works weave myth, poetry, and music, celebrating the enduring resonance of women’s voices across time.
