Frank Corcoran

irish composer

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(1944 – present)

Frank Corcoran is from Tipperary in Ireland. He moved to Dublin to study firstly, and went on to Maynooth, Rome and lastly Berlin to study with Boris Blacher.

Corcoran has had a very schorlarly background

1980: Composer fellowship at the Berlin Kunstlerprogramm 1981: Guest professorship in West Berlin 1982: Professor of Music in Stuttgart 1983: Professor of composition and theory in the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst, Hamburg.

Corcoran has received numerous awards for his compositions: 1999: Bourges… read more
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Sweeney’s Vision

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Quasi una Missa

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Symphony No. 3

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Symphony No. 2: Tutti

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Tutti

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Mikrokosmoi (Scenes from My Receding PAST…)

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Symphony No. 2: Soli

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Ice – Etchings No. 2

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Quasi un Concertino

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Variations on ‘A Mháirín de Bharra’

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CORCORAN: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4

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Mad Sweeney

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Mad Sweeney’s Shadow

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