As part of our project to update our syllabus we are adding new works for brass and percussion. We would like to feature some of the composers that we are adding and help promote their hard work. Meet Coreen Morsink!

Coreen Morsink, Canadian/Greek composer and music teacher, 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, Karin de Fleyt, Kevin Komisaruk, Sophie Lanthier, Sarah Watts and Peter Sheppard Skaerved amongst others in Canada, USA, UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and played on the BBC Radio 3. Her duo for violin and cello, A Stack of Human Dilemmas was premiered by Carol Fujino and Paul Widner of Continuum as part of PIVOT, her wind and piano quartet Excursions in Diversity was part of the 2022 festival Mondi diversi in Rovereto, Italy and her Symphony Call of the Dove was played in the TSO “Explore the Score” Reading sessions with Gary Kulesha conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In Greece, one of her piano miniatures will be part of the Celebration of the 70 Years of the Friends of Music in a concert at the Megaron Mousikis, Athens and in Arta presented by graduating class of the University of Ioannina. Her work for solo alto flute Andromache will be quoted in the The Cambridge Companion to Composition as part of composer Ken Hesketh’s upcoming article Ex uno plures: composing for solo instruments. In October 2023 her 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. Her works for flute are published by Tetractys Publishing. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Coreen lives in Greece with her husband and children and enjoys swimming in the sea, flowers and nature.

Coreen’s work The Glass is Already Broken for solo marimba by Coreen Morsink is being added to our syllabus, thank you!

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