Coreen Morsink Biography and Compositions
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.
WordPress website: https://coreenmorsink.wordpress.com/about/
Tetractys Publishing: https://www.tetractys.co.uk/section726143_275293.html
Composition List
Woodwind
Andromache (alto flute and Kingma System alto flute version) 8′ 2010
Timbral Winds (alto flute duo) 7′ 2019
Drys: The Mighty Oak (bass flute) 8′ 2022
There Was a Time (flute ensemble: Piccolo, 2 C Flutes, 2 alto flutes, bass flute) 9′ 2016
Under the Pomegranate Tree (alto flute and baritone saxophone) 5:30′ 2022
Fibonacci in a Black Hole (solo clarinet) 6′ 2012
Song of the Polar Bear (contrabass clarinet) 3′ 2018
The Messenger (solo oboe) 5′ 2020
Play Songs (Trio: Alto Flute, Cor Anglais and Bass Clarinet) 4′ 2016
Strings
erosion (solo violin) 7′ 2012
The Lockdown Sketches (solo violin) 10′ 2020
12:8 (violin and piano) 8′ 2020
A Stack of Human Dilemmas (violin and cello) 10′ 2021
because (solo cello) 40 second miniature 2021
Conversations with a Rose (solo cello) 5′ 2014
Nothing else matters, it seems, apart from gold (soprano and cello) 20 seconds miniature 2018
Platanus X (solo viola) Work in progress 8′ 2022
String Quartet
Time’s Doorway (String Quartet No. 2) 8′ 2017
Stolen Glimpses of Eternity (5 minute adaptation) 2016
Stolen Glimpses of Eternity (Complete String Quartet No. 1) 25′ 2012
in thanks (violin and oboe) 5′ 2020
Anemone (solo harp) 1′ miniature 2022
Piano and organ
12-1 Preludes (partially prepared piano) 13′ 2012
Schubert alla Greca (piano) 1 minute 2015
…catharsis… (solo organ) 6.30′ 2012
Listen to the Silence (piano solo: a series of compositions and improvisations based on meditational texts) 50′ 2016
Brass
Seismograph (trombone and piano) 3′ 2014
String Orchestra
The Agreekment Symphony (No. 1) 11′ 2015
A Mythological Tone Poem (No. 2) 10′ 2018
Symphonic Orchestra and ensembles
Home (symphonic orchestra) 1′ 2021
Sea Fanfare (symphonic orchestra) 5.30′ 2020
Divine Eros (Choir and symphony orchestra) 11′ 2012
Point Pelee Excursions (chamber ensemble: flute, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, doublebass, piano, percussion) 8.30′ 2016
Choir and vocal ensemble
Theban Choruses (SSA choir and piano) 10′ 2016
Sleeping in a Mousetrap (five minute opera for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, text by Olga Borislava from her book Preferences) 5′ 2014
St. Michael and the Angels (SATB choir and organ) 3′ 2009
Electro-Acoustic composition
Birds, Bells and Thunder 3′ 2020