Bio

Olivia Korosak is an award winning Canadian composer. Her portfolio spans music for feature films, short films, orchestras, various ensembles, as well as sound designs for theatrical shows.  

Olivia first began her musical journey at age four studying piano and voice under the Royal Conservatory of Music and later graduated summa cum laude from McMaster University with an Honours Bachelor Degree in Music, a Performance Diploma in Classical voice from the studio of Lita Classen and a Minor in Theatre and Film Studies.  

Olivia’s work focuses primarily on music for film; recently her score for the full length feature Liminal Girl (now streaming on Tubi) won an Emerging Screen Composers Award from SOCAN in 2024. Along with her work on documentaries such as Twenty Years by the Bay, Olivia has fostered a working relationship with the film students at Canadore College scoring many of their students’ films including: Double Life, Right Before Home, Jade and Kondo and Rejects to name a few. 

Olivia has been commissioned by various ensembles to compose music; in 2023 Olivia was commissioned by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board to compose a concert band piece for their students (Don’t Let Your Sound B Flat); in 2022 LAUDEM Canada commissioned her to write a piece for solo organ as apart of their anthology, having performances in both Québec and Finland; in 2019 she was commissioned by the Burlington Symphony Orchestra to write the piece Ruddle of Flakes which premiered at their Christmas Spectacular Concert.