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Jocelyn Morlock

Jocelyn Morlock

Canadian musical artist (1969–2023)

Jocelyn Morlock (14 December 1969 – 27 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Her piece My Name is Amanda Todd won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.[2][3][4]

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Early life and education

Morlock was born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba on 14 December 1969.[5] She studied piano with Robert Richardson, Sr. and completed a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Brandon University (B.Mus. 1994), where her teachers included Gerhard Ginader (electroacoustic music) and T. Patrick Carrabré (composition).[6] She received both a master's degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia (M.Mus. 1996, DMA 2002) where her composition teachers included Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel, and the late Russian-Canadian composer Nikolai Korndorf.[7][8][9][10]

Career

Jocelyn Morlock was Composer-in-Residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2014-2019),[11][12] after completing her term (2012-2014)[13][14] as inaugural Composer-in-Residence for Vancouver's Music on Main, co-host of ISCM World New Music Days 2017.[15]

Morlock's international career was launched at the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days with Romanian performances of her quartet Bird in the Tangled Sky,[16] followed by Top 10 at the 2002 International Rostrum of Composers[17] and Winner of the 2004 Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Emerging Composers competition.[18]

Morlock wrote the imposed work for several music competitions including the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition[19] (Involuntary Love Songs) and the 2005 Montreal International Music Competition,[20] (Amore).[21][22] She won the SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award in 2018.[23]

Morlock's piece My Name is Amanda Todd premiered on 19 May 2016. It is a reflection on the life of Canadian Amanda Todd. It was commissioned and premiered by the National Arts Centre Orchestra as part of the multimedia symphonic work Life Reflected.[3][4] The piece won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.[24]

Morlock was the longtime partner of Hard Rubber Orchestra director and trumpeter John Korsrud.[25]

Style

Morlock's music exhibits a quirky and eccentric post-modernism, but is specially centred on emotion.[26] Her musical language is typically tonal or modal, but is expanded with extended techniques and colouristic effects.

Death

Morlock died on 27 March 2023, at the age of 53.[27]

Selected works

  • Bird in the Tangled Sky (1997)
  • Lacrimosa (2000)
  • Exaudi (2004)
  • Music from the Romantic Era (2005)
  • Amore (2005)
  • half-light, somnolent rains (2005)[9]
  • Cobalt (2009)[28]
  • Aeromancy (2011)
  • My Name is Amanda Todd (2016)
  • Lucid Dreams (2017; cello concerto)[29]

Discography

Cobalt, Centrediscs CMCCD 20014 (2014)

Halcyon, Centrediscs CMCCD 23817 (2017)

Awards and nominations

JUNO Awards

Classical Composition of the Year

  • Won: My Name is Amanda Todd (2018)[30][24]
  • Nominated: Exaudi (2011)

Western Canadian Music Awards

Classical Composer of the Year

Classical Composition of the Year

  • Won: Cobalt (2015)

Classical Recording of the Year

  • Nominated: Cobalt (2015)

See also

References

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