Bio
Olivia Korosak is a Canadian composer and performer who first began her musical journey at the age of four with the Royal Conservatory of Music studying piano and voice. Graduated summa cum laude from McMaster University, Olivia has obtained an Honours Bachelor in Music with a Performance Diploma in Classical Voice from the studio of Lita Classen as well as a minor in Theatre and Film studies. Olivia’s work focuses primarily on music for film, her recent scores being for the short films: A Fresh Start (2022), Isle of You (2022), DNA (2021) and Unknown Caller (2021). Unknown Caller went on to place at the Boden International Film Festival. With theatre opening up again Olivia has been active in sound designing, having scored and recorded the music for the play Whose Vagina is it, Really? which premiered at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival at the Al Green Theatre. Olivia regularly composes music for a variety of instruments, in 2022 she was commissioned by LAUDEM Canada to compose an organ piece to be included in their anthology. Morgan’s Organ premiered in Montreal Sunday May 15th 2022 and has continued to have performances in Québec and Finland. In 2019 Olivia was commissioned by the Burlington Symphony Orchestra to compose the piece, Ruddle of Flakes which premiered at their 2019 Christmas Spectacular concert.
List of Works
For a full list of works with recordings, please visit my website: https://oliviakorosak.com/
Film
A Fresh Start Score (2022) — piano, strings, various percussion (10 minutes)
A short horror film written and directed by Melissa Karas
Isle of Your Score (2022) — flute, cello, piano, vibraphone (7:30 minutes)
A short film about human connection written and directed by Marjo Johne
DNA Score (2021) — guitar, piano, cello, various percussion, synth (5 minutes)
A short film about family written and directed by Sandy Daley
Unknown Caller (2021) — piano, strings, various percussion, synth (6 minutes)
A short thriller written and directed by Kat Law
Theatre
Whose Vagina is it, Really? (2022) — voice, piano, strings, various percussion (6 minutes)
A play written by Sandy Daley, premiered at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival at the Al Green Theatre for 8 performances
re:mind (2019) — beatboxing flute, piano, violin and electric bass (30 minutes)
A physical theatre play created by Winnie Wu and Olivia Korosak
Orchestra
Ruddle of Flakes (2019) — orchestra (5 minutes)
Commissioned by the Burlington Symphony Orchestra, premiered December 2019
Chamber
Salute to the Moon, movements I-III (2019) — string quartet (8 minutes)
Premiered at my voice(s) concert October 2019 by members of the Burlington symphony Orchestra
Beatboxing Flute
Dance Battle: Bam?! (2019) — beatboxing flute (4 minutes)
Premiered at my voice(s) concert October 2019
The Flute Tho (2019) — beatboxing flute (4 minutes)
Solo beatboxing flute piece from re:mind soundtrack
Organ
Morgan’s Organ (2022) — organ (4 minutes)
Commissioned by LAUDEM Canada, premiered in Montreal Sunday May 15th 2022 and has continued to have performances in Québec and Finland