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21. 02. 2007 The Freiburger Percussion Ensemble performs ‘‘MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS’’ for Irish Piano and Five Percussionists there.
13.04.2007 The Spanish Arbos Trio will perform my ‘‘PIANO TRIO’’ at the Sligo Music Festival.
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.
October
30.10.2006 Andreas Skouras gives the Hamburg premiere of ‘‘SWEENEY’S TOTAL RONDO’’ for Solo Piano at the Musikhochschule there.
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) and
‘‘ 9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM’’ for Solo Violin and Choir (2004 National Chamber Choir / Catherine Leonard / Celso Antunes. It staggers.... )
Sunday, Oct. 1st, Lyric FM (Ireland) feature my new work and voice on ‘‘Nova’’
The American bassist virtuoso 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.
Frank Corcoran’s ‘‘9 ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM’’ for Solo Violin and Choir will be programmed by the Hungarian Radio Choir in Budapest for its next season.
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 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).
June 25
Lyric FM: The Ear Thinks - Mozart ....
June 25
The American double-bass virtuoso, Allan von Schenkel, will record
Frank Corcoran’s commissioned QUASI UN BASSO for
Bass Solo for National Public Radio on June 25, 2006.
June 11
NDR Radio Hamburg: ‘‘Mozarts Streichquintett in G-moll ; eine
Höranalyse.’’
11. Juni
Liebe Freunde und Freundinnen der Musik
Hiermit möchte ich Sie zu einem Konzert am 11. Juni 2006 einladen:
June 4
Lyric FM ‘‘NOVA.’’ Frank Corcoran’s programme:
‘‘James Joyce and Music - The Split In The Head.’’
June 3
NDR KULTUR 20.00
As part of the Mozart-Year, Frank Corcoran analyses Mozart’s
String Quintet in G-Minor , Köchel Verzeichnis 516.
Since my ‘‘Mad Sweeney’’ shenannigans in 1995 with Seamus Heaney’s
translation of that great medieval Irish epic and the various ‘‘Sweeney’’ – Corcoran
works that it triggered off, I started my series of ‘‘Quasi’’ works, including
‘‘Quasi Un Canto’’ for Large Orchestra, ‘‘Quasi Un Lamento ’’for
chamber-orchestra and the electro-acoustic ‘‘Quasi Una Missa’’ which won the 2002 Swedish
EMS Prize.
This new Composer’s Choice , assembled in Berlin and Salzburg,
doesn’t bear the title ‘‘QUASI UNA MUSICA - Frank Corcoran’’ for nothing.
Each of its six works, from the ‘‘Quasi Una Visione’’ which RTÉ commissioned
for Ensemble Modern at the 2005 ‘‘Living Music’’ Festival to the
‘‘Quasi - Variations on A MHÁIRÍN DE BARRA’’ which Lyric FM commissioned in 2004 for
Constantin Zanidache’s beautiful solo viola playing, sieves and filters the
problem of re-thinking musical form in the 21st century: musical form that is
new, but only ‘‘quasi’’ new.
The new Zeitklang / Composer’s Choice CD,
Quasi Una Musica - FRANK
CORCORAN has just been released. (Catalogue Nr. Cal . 13018) It has :
QUASI UNA VISIONE (RTE commission for Ensemble Modern / Sian Edwards
premiere at 2005 ‘‘Living Music’’ Festival.)
ICE - ETCHINGS for Cello. David Stromberg, Cello (1995 Madeleine
Shapiro / Arts Council commission for Rome Festival.)
QUASI UN CONCERTO (2003 Arts Council commission for Cantus Orchestra
Zagreb premiere).
QUASI - VARIATIONS A MHÁIRÍN DE BARRA for Solo Viola (2004 Lyric
FM commission for Constantin Zanidache premiere)
9 QUASI - ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM for Solo Violin and Choir (1995
National Chamber Choir / Celso Antunes, Conductor, Catherine Leonard Violin.)
QUASI UN PIZZICATO for Chamber Ensemble and Soprano (2004 Wire-works
Ensemble, Hamburg / René Rulikers, Conductor)
May 19
Magyar Radio 3, Radio Bartók, has chosen Frank Corcoran’s
new QUASI UN BASSO for bass solo for its big 2006 Bela Bartók Centenary Celebrations
Concert in Budapest.
May 6
QUASI UNA MISSA will be presented at Salzau Castle
on May 6 at the May Media - Arts Symposium.
April 23
Concorde has commissioned new Beyond Beckett for Soprano and Ensemble; premiere will be part of the Samuel Beckett 100th Birthday Celebrations on April 23 in the National Gallery, Dublin.
April 23
Lyric Fm broadcasts
QUASI UNA MISSA
April 16
Lyric Fm broadcasts Frank Corcoran’s
SWEENEY’S VISION
March
The Irish virtuoso violist, Garth Know, will give the first
European performance of Frank Corcoran’s Variations on A
MHÁIRÍN DE BHARRA for Solo Viola (2005 Lyric Fm
commission) on March 2nd at the Irish Cultural Centre in
Paris.
February 28
The American double-bass virtuoso, Allan von Schenkel, will give
the world-premiere of Frank Corcoran’s commissioned QUASI
UN BASSO for Bass Solo at the NowUKnow Gallery in
Washington D.C. on February 28.
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