Joycelyn Morlock Cause of Death

Canadian composer and music educator, Joycelyn Morlock has died. She died on March 27, 2023. The cause of her death is unknown.

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.

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.