Jocelyn Morlock

Jocelyn Morlock (14 December 1969 – 27 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. 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, Manitoba on 14 December 1969. 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 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. Career Morlock was composer-in-residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2014-2019), after completing her term (2012-2014) as inaugural composer-in-residence for Vancouver’s Music on Main, and co-host of ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Her international career was launched at the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days with Romanian perfor