Bio
Coreen Morsink, Canadian/Greek composer, is inspired by unusual microtonal tuning systems and ancient Greek music which she considers a springboard for her compositions. Her works have been premiered by Carla Rees, Chenoa Anderson, Allison Balcetis, Karin de Fleyt, Mizuka Yamamoto, Kevin Komisaruk, 432 Chamber Orchestra (Ivan Yanakiev conducting), Sarah Watts and Peter Sheppard Skaerved amongst others in Canada, USA, UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece and played on the BBC Radio 3. Her string quartet Stolen Glimpses of Eternity was a finalist in the Smackdown V competition in Texas and her String Quartet No. 2, Time’s Doorway was premiered in December 2020 by the Ligeti Quartet as part of their Workout! Sessions. In 2021 she was part of the PIVOT emerging composer programme in Canada and her work A Stack of Human Dilemmas for violin and cello was premiered by Continuum Ensemble members Carol Fujino and Paul Widner on-line from Toronto. Her music for low flutes and flute ensembles are published by Tetractys Publishing and Timbral Winds for Alto Flute duo was presented in the 2021 National Flute Convention (NFA).
Her musical education includes an ARCT in piano performance while studying with Margaret Parsons Poole, a B.Mus in Piano Performance from McGill where she studied with Prof. Marina Mdivani, a M.Mus from University of Leeds, UK where she studied with Dame Fanny Waterman and Benjamin Frith, and a PhD in composition from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK where composer Roger Redgate was her supervisor.
Currently, Coreen is a Senior Examiner for the IB and a music teacher in Athens and enjoys life in Greece with her husband and their daughters spending her spare time tending her flowers and swimming in the sea.
List of Works
Woodwind
Andromache (2010) — alto flute and Kingma System alto flute version (8′)
Timbral Winds (2019)— alto flute duo (7′)
Drys: The Mighty Oak (2022)— bass flute (8′)
There Was a Time (2016)— flute ensemble: Piccolo, 2 C Flutes, 2 alto flutes, bass flute (9′)
Under the Pomegranate Tree (2022)— alto flute and baritone saxophone (5:30′)
Fibonacci in a Black Hole (2012)— solo clarinet 6′)
Song of the Polar Bear (2018)— contrabass clarinet (3′)
The Messenger (2020) — solo oboe (5′)
Play Songs (2016)— Trio: Alto Flute, Cor Anglais and Bass Clarinet (4′)
Strings
erosion (2012)— solo violin (7′)
The Lockdown Sketches (2020)— solo violin (10′)
12:8 (2020)— violin and piano (8′)
A Stack of Human Dilemmas (2021)— violin and cello (10′)
because (2021)— solo cello (40 second miniature)
Conversations with a Rose (2014)— solo cello (5′)
Nothing else matters, it seems, apart from gold (2018)— soprano and cello (20 seconds miniature)
Platanus X (2022)— solo viola. Work in progress (8′)
String Quartet
Time’s Doorway (2017) — String Quartet No. 2 (8′)
Stolen Glimpses of Eternity (2016) (5 minute adaptation)
Stolen Glimpses of Eternity (2012) — Complete String Quartet No. 1 (25′)
in thanks (2020) — violin and oboe (5′)
Anemone (2022)— solo harp (1′ miniature)
Piano and Organ
12-1 Preludes (2012) — partially prepared piano (13′)
Schubert alla Greca (2015) — piano (1’)
…catharsis… (2012) — solo organ (6.30′)
Listen to the Silence (2016) — piano solo: a series of compositions and improvisations based on meditational texts (50′)
Brass
Seismograph (2014) — trombone and piano (3′)
String Orchestra
The Agreekment Symphony (No. 1) (2015) — (11′)
A Mythological Tone Poem (No. 2) (2018) — (10′)
Symphonic Orchestra and ensembles
Home (2021) — symphonic orchestra (1′)
Sea Fanfare (2020) — symphonic orchestra (5.30′)
Divine Eros (2012) — Choir and symphony orchestra (11′)
Point Pelee Excursions (2016) — chamber ensemble: flute, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, doublebass, piano, percussion (8.30′)
Choir and vocal ensemble
Theban Choruses (2016) — SSA choir and piano (10′)
Sleeping in a Mousetrap (2014) — five minute opera for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, text by Olga Borislava from her book Preferences
St. Michael and the Angels (2009) — SATB choir and organ (3′)
Electroacoustic
Birds, Bells and Thunder (2020) (3′)