Frank Corcoran

Imagine it ! Frank Corcoran “SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE” . New York. March 14 2011. click here for programme/program

I composed them . Yes: “Quasi Una Missa” ( 1999 W.D.R. Commission. electro-acoustic . 2002 Swedish EMS Prize ) “Quasi Un Pizzicato” ( Wireworks Ensemble commission 2004. Soprano , Speaker and Ensemble) “Quasi Un Basso ” ( 2005 . Solo Bass. Allan von Shenkel . Also featured in Hungarian Radio Bartók´s 2006 Bartok Celebrations, Budapest [...]

If Orpheus had had three saxophones to hand, he also would have availed of their power to mourn. Or an accordeon. Still, it´s important to get rid of the bleating, the whine the old cow died on. Music can lament alright, but it has to get rid of the merely private. While it also affirms, [...]

It is time to dust down my choral score of ” MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMMES” which the RTE Singers under Hans Waldemar Rosen premiered in the then Dublin in 1975. ( It was played then at the 1978 International Composers´Rostrum in Paris 1978 ) These nine Haiku-like miniatures are a window on Iron Age Ireland of [...]

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 that today [...]

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 [...]

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 expanding time-pictures, [...]