Frank Corcoran

THIRD STRING QUARTET Frank Corcoran
After my ” MAD SWEENEY” generated works of the mid-nineteen nineties ( ” BUILE SUIBHNE / MAD SWEENEY” for Speaker and Chamber Orchestra , 1995, Text by Seamus Heaney ) , this is my ” Quasi Un Quartetto”, the last of the ” Quasi” series.
In the sense […]

Lyric Fm recorded my Piano Trio with the Spanish Arbos Trio at the 2007 Sligo Festival in April 2007.
Lyric Fm will record the Irish Chamber Orchestra world-premiere of my ” Quasi Una Fuga” at
St. Mary´s Cathedral Limerick at the Shannon Festival 2007 this July 13.
See note on world-premiere at Irish Music Centre
See International Music […]

The leading Swiss New Music group , Ensemble Antipodes of Basle, has commissioned a new
Corcoran Octet, ” Quasi Una Sarabande” . Premiere November 30 2008 in Basle.
KUNSTMUSIK Köln ( Spring 2005 Issue www.kunstmusik.org ) has Frank Corcoran´s ” It´s A Cold Wind Blows On An Irish Composer”.

August 23 - 26 Ireland Weekend at Schloß Gaismar, Kassel, will feature the music of Frank Corcoran, inc. “Joycepeak Music “, ” Quasi Una Missa”, ” Sweeney´s Vision” .

21. May ( 04 Bealtaine ) . Lyric Fm Radio at 19.00 - 20.00
A rogha ceoil le Frank Corcoran . It includes ” QUASI UNA MISSA”, ” SWEENEY´S VISION” and VARIATIONS ON ” A MHÁIRÍN DE BARRA”.

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 […]

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 […]

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