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Composer Frank Corcoran at 70
Composer Frank Corcoran at 70

Irish composer Frank Corcoran chats about celebrating his 70th birthday and the publication of “Frank Corcoran: Festschrift at Seventy: Old and New – Sean agus Nua: An Irish Composer Invents Himself” edited by Hans-Dieter Grunefeld (published by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland)

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May 27 2017 Rome Concert Frank Corcoran Piano Trio and Duetti Irlandesi

May 28 2017 Bolsena Piccolo Teatro Cavour ” ”

June 4 2017 Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin Pratoleva Trio – new Corcoran chamber-music

June 26 2017 Frank Corcoran Member of the 2017 International Jury , Samobor Festival

Betreff: WGXC Composer-Portrait

2.2.2017 WGXC ” The Cutty Strange ” .

Frank Corcoran / Composer-Portrait incl.

QUSI UNA MISSA, ( WDR commission 1999 . Swedish E.M.S. Prize 2002 )

TRAUERFELDER , ( NDR 1995 )

QUASI UNA MISSA, ( Irish Chamber Orchestra / Anthony Marwood 2006 )

VIOLIN CONCERTO, ( NSO 2013 )

CELLO CONCERTO. ( NSO 2015 )

Frank Corcoran CELLO CONCERTO

For years I´d wanted to compose a Concerto for Cello and big orchestra – my singing David against its mighty Goliath . But I didn´t trust myself to face what

is, yes,

a mighty challenge until I´d first composed my Violin Concerto which Christopher Warren-Green premiered with the NSO and great soloist, Alan Smale, in

Nov. 2012 . I worked closely with Alan as he prepared his Concerto ; his advice to me , the composer, was ” Frank, SING IT !” And this same advice was vital

as, one year later, I began work on this even bigger Corcoran Concerto for the mighty cello – bow of Martin Johnson. This four movement work has even greater proportions ; this

solo instrument has to face an even bigger orchestral battle .

It sings and soars, somewhere between Dvorak ´s and Lutoslawski´s epic works. The opening reveals a broad gesture for trumpets and brass which will

return several times , quasi a ” motto” theme. My Slow Movement would tear the heart out of you, the cello´s beautiful cantilena weaving, sobbing,

dying. The searing Scherzo, with its huge battery of percussion is the most violent music I ever wrote…. The music winds down then in the last, meditative

finale.

WORLD-CLASS CHOIR TO PREMIERE Frank Corcoran´s stunning ” 8 Haikus “

which won the 2013 First Prize Outright ( out of an international field
of 670 submitted choral scores ) of The International Federation For
Choral Music. Other top-class choirs to follow…

The University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers was organized in
1963 by National Artist Professor Andrea O. Veneracion. The group is
composed of students, faculty and alumni from the different colleges of
the University of the Philippines (UP). The choir is one of the world’s
most awarded, having consistently won all the top prizes in most of the
world’s prestigious choral competitions: Arezzo and Gorizia in Italy,
Marktoberdorf in Germany, Spittal in Austria, Neuchatel in Switzerland,
Tours in France, Varna in Bulgaria, Debrecen in Hungary, Cantonigros,
Tolosa and Torrevieja in Spain. They hold the distinction of being the
first choir in the world to win the European Grand Prix for Choral
Singing twice (1997 and 2007).

Frank agus na Muca
Gabriel Rosenstock

Na muca a mhúin an ceol duit
Nótaí ísle
Nótaí arda
Nótaí nach gcloiseann na muca féin

Tá breis is 200 ainm ar Éirinn
Inis na Muc ceann acu

Is beannaithe í an dair
Is beannaithe dá réir sin
An mhuc a itheann toradh na darach
An dearcán

Tá tú 70
Tá tú ag iompú i do dhearcán

Mo sheacht mbeannacht ort

Frank and the Pigs
It was the pigs that taught you music
Low notes
High notes
Notes that the pigs themselves don’t hear

Ireland has more than 200 names
One is Inis na Muc, Isle of Pigs

The oak is sacred
By osmosis so too
The pig that eats the fruit of the oak
The acorn

You are 70
You are turning into an acorn

Seven blessings upon you

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR CHORAL COMPOSITION

The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) will host the IFCM International Competition for Choral Composition from time to time. The chief aim of which is to promote the creation and wide distribution of new and innovative choral repertoire.

The date of the next IFCM Competition for Choral Composition is yet to be announced.

Winner 2013
Francis Corcoran (Ireland) “Eight Haikus”

JURY 2013

Graham Lack (Germany)
John A. Pamintuan (The Philippines)
Libby Larsen (USA)
Olli Kortekangas (Finland)
Paul Stanhope (Australia)

Betreff: WGXC Composer-Portrait

2.2.2017 WGXC ” The Cutty Strange ” .

Frank Corcoran / Composer-Portrait incl.

QUSI UNA MISSA, ( WDR commission 1999 . Swedish E.M.S. Prize 2002 )

TRAUERFELDER , ( NDR 1995 )

QUASI UNA MISSA, ( Irish Chamber Orchestra / Anthony Marwood 2006 )

VIOLIN CONCERTO, ( NSO 2013 )

CELLO CONCERTO. ( NSO 2015 )

Suoni d’Irlanda per Frank Corcoran a Orvieto e Bolsena
martedì 28 luglio 2015
Suoni d’Irlanda per Frank Corcoran a Orvieto e Bolsena

Due appuntamenti imperdibili per chi ama la musica classica e al contempo una grande occasione per celebrare uno dei massimi compositori irlandesi viventi che da alcuni anni ha deciso di trascorrere gran parte dell’anno nella campagna alle porte di Bagnoregio.

In onore di Frank Corcoran, nato a Tipperary nel 1944, tre solisti della National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (Martin Johnson, Adele Johnson, Fergal Caulfield) eseguiranno musiche di Schubert, Popper, Brahms e dello stesso Corcoran in due date, la prima ad Orvieto, al Teatro Mancinelli venerdì 31 luglio alle ore 21:15.

La seconda a Bolsena, al Piccolo Teatro Cavour domenica 2 agosto alla stessa ora. Ad entrambi i concerti, sarà presente il maestro Corcoran.

Concorde

Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

This concert by Jane O’Leary’s new-music ensemble, Concorde, included the Irish premiere of Four Pieces(2006), by young Slovenian composer Nina Senk, which the ensemble will perform in Ljubljana next month.

Senk is only 25, but the riveting playing of Elaine Clark (violin), David James (cello) and Dermot Dunne (accordion) made it easy to hear why her music is already much travelled.

The rest of the programme drew on Concorde’s rich back-catalogue of Irish commissions. Two vocal works from 2006, Frank Corcoran’s The Light Gleams and Elaine Agnew’s In the Adriatic, were elegantly articulated by soprano Tine Verbeke.

Taking a fragment of text from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Corcoran’s piece places its three monosyllables in a setting of poised abstraction, as if examining its vowels and consonants from various angles under a powerful microscope.