Frank Corcoran

To be honest, I see it differently. I spent my 1993 Black Hole Year writing the ” Irische Mikrokosmoi” for solo piano. Fair enough. I had to focus the mind between insanity and , well, insanity. After all that which had run its unquiet course, I had only two hands – the right was inked; [...]

May 5, 6 and 7 next : David Stromberg will perform Frank Corcoran´s ” ICE ETCHINGS” for Solo Cello ( – commissioned by Rome Festival 1995, Madeleine Shapiro, cello ) at the Hamburg Klangcontainer, Hamburg .

2009 is a Joseph Haydn Anniversary Year so I have produced for North German Radio Hamburg my radiophonic analysis of Haydn´s panmotivic “Oxford Symphony” . All Haydn´s symphonic themes are related. All Haydn´s motifs I can derive from that odd, tonally unsteady first theme of his opening movement. Which is melodically ( = ” motivically [...]

QUASI UNA FUGA Frank Corcoran These last years I have composed several works for different instrumental combinations with titles such as ” Quasi Un Canto” for Orchestra, ” Quasi Un Concerto” for Chamber Ensemble, etc. The “Quasi” of the different titles refers to the fact that nowadays nobody is fully innocent anymore; this composer knows [...]

Nowadays I divide my time between Hamburg and Italy. That´s correct. In the main. However, one of the strangest electro-acoustic works I made ( – they´re all in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris ) was that WDR commission, ” QUASI UNA MISSA” , of 1999. The radio´s small Cologne hotel was just across the square from [...]

I was there. As it happened in Bergamo. It was my 1994 ICE-ETCHINGS NR. 1 for, as it happened to happen, 9 wind-instruments. Later, I will release THAT letter which will tell all…. FOUR CONCERTINI OF ICE ( 1993 ) , being a predecessor , was subtly different. For the Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker, Cond. Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen, [...]

WDR 3 Hörproben 3.3.2000 Frank Corcoran´s Sinfonien Nr. 2,3 und 4. National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / Colman Pearce Marco Polo 8.225107 ( LC 9158 ) includes Frank Corcoran´s : ” Ich kam erst spät zur Kunstmusik. Die Klanglandschaft meiner Kindheit lebt weiter in mir…. ” Also: ” Der Komponist, geboren 1944 im County Tipperary, [...]

February 9 2009 Czech Radio : Frank Corcoran ” Quasi Una Missa” ( WDR commission 1999 , it won the Swedish EMS Prize 2004 ) and ” Sweeney´s Vision” ( WDR commission 1997, it won the Bourges Festival premier prix 1999 ) . February 22. NDR Choir and Ms. I. Psarewa : Frank Corcoran´s ” [...]

In the October 2008 World Haiku Review Vol. 6, Issue 4, this, my little Pratoleva pearl miniature, was awarded an ” Honourable Mention”: Season of mellow Yellow fruit; ripeness is all Too tired to die ( Frank Corcoran 2008 )