Composition contest finalist
Chamber orchestra category
Toronto-born Coreen Morsink is a Canadian-Greek composer who finds inspiration in unusual microtonal chord systems and ancient Greek music. Her works have been performed by Carla Rees, Chenoa Anderson, Karin de Fleyt, Kevin Komisaruk, Sophie Lanthier, Sarah Watts and Peter Sheppard Skaerved in Europe and internationally (Canada, USA, UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy) and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
His duo for violin and cello, A Stack of Human Dilemmas, was performed by Carol Fujino and Paul Widner of Continuum as part of PIVOT, his wind and piano quartet Excursions in Diversity was presented as part of the Mondi diversi festival (Italy) in 2022, and his symphony Call of the Dove was performed as part of reading sessions by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gary Kulesha. In Greece, one of his piano miniatures was performed to mark the 70th anniversary of Les Amis de la Musique at a concert at Megaron Mousikis (Athens) and in Arta, where the piece was played by one of the graduating classes of the University of Ioannina. His work for solo alto flute Andromache will be cited in the Cambridge Companion to Composition as part of the article Ex uno plures: composing for solo instruments by composer Ken Hesketh. In October 2023, his duo Under the Pomegranate Tree for alto flute and baritone saxophone will be premiered by Chenoa Anderson and Alison Balcetis at the University of Alberta, Canada. His works for flute are published by Tetractys Publishing.
Coreen holds an associate diploma (class of Margaret Parsons-Poole) and a bachelor's degree in piano performance (class of Marina Mdivani) from McGill University, a master's degree in piano performance from the University of Leeds (class of Dame Fanny Waterman and Benjamin Frith), a master's degree in composition from the University of Indianapolis and a doctorate in composition (under the direction of Roger Redgat) from Goldsmiths (University of London).