Jocelyn Morlock

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]

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]

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.

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

• 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]

Cobalt, Centrediscs CMCCD 20014 (2014)

Halcyon, Centrediscs CMCCD 23817 (2017)

• 2018 Juno Awards winners Juno Awards of 2018
• 2011 Juno Awards nominees Juno Awards of 2011

• JocelynMorlock.com
• Jocelyn Morlock discography at Discogs
• Jocelyn Morlock at IMDb