Members of Canada's music community are mourning the death of beloved musician Jocelyn Morlock, a Juno Award-winning composer who spent years as the ...
"She had a wide spectrum of expression that she could bring to music," said Carrabré. But Morlock's biggest hope for the piece was to uplift others like Amanda. We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend & composer Jocelyn Morlock. The performance also included a video element that features some of Todd's own words. "She was so brave. I was lucky to work with her handful of times. There was music in her that had to come out. "Jocelyn was asked to do this work that really addressed the horrors a young person can go through," said T. Just gutted to learn about the passing of Jocelyn Morlock. The pair worked together while she studied her bachelor of music. My thoughts go out to all her family and close friends. Morlock was known for her complex compositions that were inspired by birds and nature.
She was the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2019 and won a 2018 Juno Award for classical composition of the year for her ...
Patrick Carrabré, director of the UBC School of Music, said in a statement today. ”Jocelyn was a national treasure, an inspiration, someone whose laugh lifted the spirits of everyone near, and whose deep and profound commitment to enlightened values was exemplary,” Sean Bickerton, BC director at the Canadian Music Centre said in a statement today. Most point to the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days, with Romanian performances of her quartet Bird in the Tangled Sky, as her big international break. That beautiful, special work, which has contributed so much to the conversation around cyberbullying and for which she justly won the JUNO award for best composition, now has another layer of tragedy etched into its contours.” In 2016, she took home the Mayor’s Arts Award for Music in Vancouver. Matejcek New Classical Music Award—a prize for a top composer in contemporary-classical music, handed out at the SOCAN Awards.
Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock has died at the age of 53. Morlock was based in Vancouver, where she was well known as both a composer and educator.
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The classical music community is mourning the passing of a Juno award winning composer who, for...
JUNO Award-winning composer Jocelyn Morlock has died. The Vancouver artist was 53. Morlock was known for her contemporary classical compo...
Jocelyn and her music impacted so many people and the depths of her feelings were there for all to experience. Morlock was born in Saint Boniface, MB, and was an alumna of the University of British Columbia's School of Music, where she taught as a sessional lecturer. She was also nominated for a JUNO in 2011 for Exaudi.
A well-known Canadian composer and Vancouver music educator, Jocelyn Morlock, passed away suddenly.
In 2018, she was awarded the SOCAN Jan V. She earned a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Brandon University (B.Mus. We have lost an inspirational voice and a dear community member.” she was a quirky, talented, and brilliant soul. Jocelyn Morlock, a sessional lecturer and UBC music alumnus, passed away today, March 28, 2023. Everyone misses her and remembers her often.
The Vancouver-based teacher and composer's death was announced yesterday by the University of British Columbia's School of Music, where Morlock taught.
But she was admitted into the piano performance program at Brandon University, where she was suddenly exposed to a variety of music she hadn't been previously aware of. She referred to the sensation as like "seeing a new colour for the first time," as she told CBC's North by Northwest in 2021. "She was such a caring person, and a really positive force in the world," said U.B.C. Morlock was instantly fascinated by the instrument and took piano lessons from a young age. Morlock's piece Music of the Romantic Era contains a humorous paraphrase of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto: a lighthearted comment on the overfamiliarity of certain monumental works. Morlock was a beloved composer throughout Canada and internationally, but her loss will be especially felt in Vancouver, where she was the composer-in-residence for the concert series Music on Main from 2012 to 2014 and for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra from 2014 to 2019.