Frank Corcoran

These are among my bigger canvases for varying sizes of orchestra. They straddle more than thirty years of inner struggle with this composer´s ear and ounds . The THREE ORCHESTRAL PIECES are for middle-size orchestra ( I do insist on the sub-title: ” Pictures From MY Exhibition” ) . They are my three expanding time-pictures, [...]

Bourges Electronic Music Centre has deposited all of Frank Corcoran´s electro-acoustic works in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. These include: ” Balthazar´s Dream” Berlin 1980. ” Joycepeak Musik” Studio Acoustic Music prize 1996 ” Sweeney´s Vision ” WDR commission; premier prix , Bourges 1999 ” Quasi Una Missa” WDR ” Swedish E.M.S. Prize 2002. ” Sweeney´s [...]

It was an intolerably humid summer-night at Lake Michigan , 1990 in Milwaukee. My drained year as a Fulbright Guest-Professor in the U.S.A. was ending ; two shadows lay over the family, my wife´s insanity and the violent death of my oldest son, Rory, shortly before. The University of Wisconsin Library purchased a facsimile edition [...]

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April 13. Sligo festival . Arbos Trio ( Spain ) performs Frank Corcoran´s PIANO TRIO July 13. I.C.O. Shannon Summer Festival. St. Mary´s Cathedral , Limerick, Ireland. Irish Chamber Orchestra ( Directed by Anthony Marwood ) : world-premiere of ” QUASI UNA FUGA ” for 18 Strings ( 2006 )