Jocelyn Morlock (born 1969) is a

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composer and music educator based in

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. Her piece ''My Name is Amanda Todd'' won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.

Early life and education

Morlock was born in Saint Boniface,

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. 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). She received both a master's degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the

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(M.Mus. 1996, DMA 2002) where her composition teachers included

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, Keith Hamel, and the late Russian-Canadian composer Nikolai Korndorf.

Career

Jocelyn Morlock was Composer-in-Residence with the

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(2014-2019), after completing her term (2012-2014) as inaugural Composer-in-Residence for Vancouver's
Music on Main
', co-host of ISCM World New Music Days 2017. 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'', followed by Top 10 at the 2002 International Rostrum of Composers and Winner of the 2004 Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Emerging Composers competition. She has written the imposed work for several music competitions including the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (''Involuntary Love Songs'') and the 2005 Montreal International Music Competition, (''Amore.'') She won the SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award in 2018.

Style

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

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) *''Cobalt'' (2009) *''Aeromancy'' (2011) *''My Name is Amanda Todd'' (2016). It is a reflection on the life of Canadian Amanda Todd. It was commissioned and premiered by the

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as part of the multimedia symphonic work ''Life Reflected.'' *''Lucid Dreams'' (2017; cello concerto) *

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) * Nominated: ''Exaudi'' (2011)

Western Canadian Music Awards

Classical Composer of the Year * Won: (2018) Classical Composition of the Year *Won: ''Cobalt'' (2015) Classical Recording of the Year * Nominated: ''Cobalt'' (2015)

References

External links

JocelynMorlock.com
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