John Korsrud

John Korsrud (born 1963) is a Canadian composer and jazz trumpeter.

Life John Korsrud was born in 1963. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1990. Korsrud studied composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam from 1995 to 1997.

Korsrud has received commissions from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, The CBC Radio Orchestra, and Dutch ensembles such as Ensemble LOOS, the Tetzepi Bigtet, the Zapp String Quartet, De Ereprijs, among others. in 2010, Korsrud performed on his own trumpet concerto, Come to the Dark Side at Carnegie Hall in with The American Composers Orchestra.

Since 1990, he has led the 18-piece new music/jazz ensemble Hard Rubber Orchestra, with which has appeared in Europe and across Canada, recorded five albums, and in 2005 won the Alcan Arts Award. The Hard Rubber Orchestra has commissioned over 50 works from composers such as Kenny Wheeler, Darcy James Argue, John Hollenbeck, Brad Turner, Christine Jensen, Scott Good, Linda Bouchard, Rene Lussier, Anna Webber (musician), and many others.

Korsrud has also created large multimedia projects like The Elvis Cantatas (1994, 1996), The Ice Age: The World's First New Music Ice Show (2000, 2010), and Enter/Exit (2005), and The Drum & Light Festival (2008–10). The CBC produced a 70-minute version of Elvis Cantata, entitled Cantata for the King. He won the Leo Award and the Golden Sheaf Award for the music to the film Heroines (2002), and was nominated for the Gemini Award. He won another Leo Award for the film music to Prisoners of Age.

Korsrud is the recipient of the Canada Council's "Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award" (2015), the City of Vancouver Mayor's Award for Music (2012), The Canada Council's Joseph S. Stauffer Prize (2001), and a fellowship from the Italian Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2003). Korsrud has performed as soloist with The Vancouver Symphony and The American Composers Orchestra.

He is currently a member of faculty at Capilano University and Vancouver Community College teaching composition and resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Discography Hard Rubber Orchestra: Cruel Yet Fair, 1997 Les Disques Victo – VICTO cd059 Orquestra Goma Dura: Live, 2000, Mother Corp Records slscd 1132 Hard Rubber Orchestra: Rub Harder, 2001 Les Disques Victo – VICTO cd 080 John Korsrud: Odd Jobs, Assorted Climaxes, 2005, Spool – SPP203 John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra: Crush, 2015, self-released Hard Rubber Orchestra: Kenny Wheeler: Suite for Hard Rubber Orchestra, 2018 JTR Hard Rubber Orchestra: Iguana 2022; Redshift TK520

Multimedia projects Solstice, 1991 The Elvis Cantatas, 1994, 1996 White Hot Core with Kokoro Dance, 1995 The Ice Age: The World's First New Music Ice Show, 2000 Enter/Exit, 2005 Drum & Light Festival, 2008, 2009 (2010) The New Ice Age: New Music Ice Show, 2010

Compositions

Chamber/Orchestra Stark Raving, Standing Wave Ensemble 1994 Glurp, for Combustion Chamber 1997 VAP DIST for CBC Radio Orchestra, 2000 In a Flash for Vancouver Symphony, 2002 Gershwin & Fire, for De Ereprijs 2003 The Shadow of Your Smile, Vancouver New Music Society 2005 Wood Eye for CBC Radio Orchestra, 2006 Liquid, for Turning Point Ensemble, 2006 Come to the Dark Side for American Composers Orchestra, 2010

Film scores Heroines, 2002 Drawing Out the Demons, 2004 Prisoners of Age, 2004 Dark Pines, 2005 Lottery on Ice, 2005 (Post) Modern Times, 2006 Fatherhood Dreams, 2007 As Slow as Possible, 2008 Miss Landmine, 2009 Some Kind of Love, 2014

Compositions for video games Mario's Time Machine, 1994