John Korsrud

John Korsrud is a Canadian composer and jazz trumpeter.

Korsrud (b. 1963), who lives in Vancouver, Canada is a composer and leads the 18-piece Hard Rubber Orchestra. Korsrud studied composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in Amsterdam.

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. Korsrud performed on his own trumpet concerto, Come to the Dark Side at Carnegie Hall in 2010 with by 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 three 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, Brad Turner, Scott Good, Linda Bouchard, Rene Lussier and many others. Korsrud also leads the 20-piece Salsa/Latin-Jazz-Orchestra Orquestra Goma Dura, from which an album has appeared, and the 14-piece drum'n'bass ensemble The Drum & Light Orchestra.

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.

• Hard Rubber Orchestra: Cruel Yet Fair, 1997
• Orquestra Goma Dura: Live, 2000
• Hard Rubber Orchestra: Rub Harder, 2001
• Odd Jobs, Assorted Climaxes, 2005
• John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra: Crush, 2015

• Solstice, 1991
• The Elvis Cantatas, 1994, 1996
• 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

• Stark Raving, 1994
• Zippy Pinhead, 1995
• Glurp, 1997
• VAP DIST for symphony orchestra, 2000
• Lather, 2002
• In a Flash for symphony orchestra, 2002
• Non Me Domabis, 2003
• Gershwin & Fire, 2003
• The Shadow of Your Smile, 2005
• Wood Eye for symphony orchestra, 2006
• Liquid, 2006
• Woosh, 2007
• Solid, 2007
• "Come to the Dark Side" for symphony orchestra, 2010
• "Talking Wave", 2012
• "Round Midnight", 2013

• Fun for the Whole Family, 1990
• Danse Russe, 1990
• Ballad for Dave Liebman, 1990
• Irk, 1992
• Iguana, 1995
• Cruel Yet Fair, 1995
• Scratching the Surface, 1995
• Crush 2003
• Lowest Tide 2005

• 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