The Music
Phobos and Deimos, Circling, Jocelyn Morlock
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Jocelyn Morlock titled her piece for Mars Phobos and Deimos, Circling, after the planet’s two irregularly shaped moons. Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Panic) are the names of the two horses that pulled the chariot of the mythological Mars, god of war. Each of the voices in Morlock’s strict two-part counterpoint revolves in its own independent rhythmic cycle, gradually converging in a thunderous climax that bears down on us like the terrifying and inexorable chariot of war, then breaking into a desolate, almost apocalyptic coda. | ||||
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Jocelyn Morlock’s music has received numerous national and international accolades, including: Top 10 at the 2002 International Rostrum of Composers; Winner of the 2003 CMC Prairie Region Emerging Composers competition; and a nomination for Best Classical Composition at the 2006 Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2008, Morlock was a winner of the Mayor’s Arts Awards in Vancouver. Morlock’s international career was launched at the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days with Romanian performances of her quartet Bird in the Tangled Sky. Since then, she has become the composer of record for significant music competitions, including the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition and the 2005 Montreal International Music Competition, for which she wrote Amore, a tour de force vocal work that has gone on to receive more than 50 performances and numerous radio broadcasts. |
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Jocelyn Morlock completed a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Brandon University, studying with pianist Robert Richardson. She received both a Master’s degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia. Among her teachers were Pat Carrabré, Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel, and the late Russian-Canadian composer Nikolai Korndorf.
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