Frank Corcoran

Nov. 26
World-Premiere
Frank Corcoran’s QUASI UNA FUGA for String Orchestra
(commission of IPME 2005)
with the Irish Chamber Orchestra at the National Gallery, Dublin.

13. January 2007 Frank Corcoran´s commissioned two-hour
“Höranalyse” of Schubert´s Great C-Major Symphony broadcast by N.D.R. for the first time.

The American bassist virtuoso Andreas Skouras will give 5 performances of my ‘‘Quasi In Basso’’ at Washinton D.C. this October. This work represented Ireland at the Hungarian Radio Bartók Centenary Celebrations in Budapest, May 2006.

Sunday , Oct. 1 2006. Lyric Fm 20.50
Frank Corcoran speaks directly from Hamburg, introducing 3 key works from his slightly special 2006 Composers´Choice CD from Berlin, ‘‘Quasi Una Musica- Frank Corcoran’’:
‘‘QUASI UNA VISIONE’’ (2005 RTÉ commission for Ensemble Modern / Sian Edwards )
‘‘VARIATIONS ON A Mháirín De Bharra’’ for Viola Solo (2004 Lyric Fm commission) […]

30.10.2006 Andreas Skouras gives the Hamburg premiere of ‘‘SWEENEY’S
TOTAL RONDO’’ for Solo Piano at the Musikhochschule there.

Sept. 3. saw the 3rd. performance of my Dept. of the Arts 2006 commission for the Samuel Beckett Centenary commission, ‘‘The Light Gleams’’ by the Concorde Ensemble at the National Gallery, Dublin. This composition will appear on C.M.C.’s ‘‘CD Contemporary Music from Ireland 6.’’ out shortly this October.

August 28 2006
Radio Clásica Madrid broadcast ‘‘QUASI UNA VISIONE ’’ (2005 RTÉ commission for Ensemble Modern/Sian Edwards) and ‘‘QUASI UN PIZZICATO’’ (2004 commission for Ensemble Wireworks Hamburg/René Gulikers)

July 21.
Vis Castle, Vis Island, Dalmatia.
The Zagreb String Quartet will give the world-premiere of Frank Corcoran’s 3rd String Quartet

July 2
R.A.I. Tre Cultura (Rome). live interview with Frank Corcoran on his new CD, ‘‘Quasi Una Musica’’ and broadcasts: ‘‘Quasi Una Visione’’ (Ensemble Modern / Sian Edwards)
and
‘‘Quasi 9 Aspects of an Irish Poem’’ (National Chamber Choir / Celso Antunes, with Catherine Leonard, Violin ).

June 26
In : Musikhochschule Hamburg, 20.00,
das Hamburger Percussions-Ensemble:
TRAUERFELDER / GOIRT AN BHRÓIN
for 4 Percussion
(-1995 commission of Hamburg Culture Minister
on the occasion of 50 years Auschwitz Liberation).