Joyce Morlock is a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver. Her piece My Name is Amanda Todd won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.
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Morlock’s international career was launched at the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Day with Romanian performances of her quartet Bird in the Tangled Sky, followed by Top 10 at the 2022 International Rostrum of Composers and Winner of the 2004 Canadian Music Centre Prairie Emerging Composers competition.
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Morlock has written imposed work for several music competitions including the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatte National Music Competition.
Morlock’s music exhibits a quirky and eccentric post-modernism but is especially centred on emotion. Her musical language is typically tonal or modal but is expanded with extended techniques and colouristic effects.
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