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2005

Breaking News: QUASI UNA FUGA for 18 Strings.
New commission for 2006 IPNM Festival, Dublin.

Breaking news, July:
American doublebass virtuoso, Allan von Schenkel, has commissioned QUASI UN BASSO for bass solo.
U.S. Premiere later in 2005.

July issue of Musik Materie gives lavish praise to Composers’ Arts Label CD Sweeney’s Smithereens

December

QUASI MUSIC
Frank Corcoran’s newest Composers’ Art Label CD, will appear at Christmas 2005. It includes his newest work:

QUASI UNA VISIONE
Ensemble Modern / Sian Edwards
(2005 Dublin Living Music Festival).
16'. RTÉ commission.

9 QUASI - ASPECTS OF AN IRISH POEM
for Choir and Solo Violin
National Chamber Choir/Celso Antunes, Catherine Leonard Solo Violin
(2004 Lyric Fm rec.) 16'.

QUASI - VARIATIONS ON ‘A Mháirín de Bharra’ for Solo Viola
Constantin Zanidache.
(2005 Lyric Fm commission). 4'.

QUASI UN CONCERTO for Chamber Orchestra
Cantus Zagreb Chamber Orchestra / Berislaw Sipus
(2004 Arts Council commission) 16'.

QUASI ICE - ETCHINGS, David Stromberg , Solo Cello
(1996 Rome Festival commission). 2004. 9'.

QUASI UN PIZZICATO
Wireworks Ensemble/René Gülikers,
Speaker Frank Corcoran
(2004 Wireworks commission). 10'.

November 27
Musikhochschule Hamburg, Foyer Concert, 20.00
Frank Corcoran’s BALTHAZAR’S DREAM
(electro-acoustic. 1980)

November 20
Lyric Fm "Nova" broadcast Frank Corcoran’s TRADURRE/TRADIRE (electro-acoustic. 2004.)
Irish Radio premiere

November 4
Mad Sweeney: US Premiere
also Mad Sweeney Symposium. Guest speakers include Professor Tomás O Cathasaigh, Harvard University.
Boston Musica Viva conducted by Richard Pittman.

October 1
QUASI UNA VISIONE
broadcast on Concertzender, Holland

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September 23
TRADURRE/TRADIRE
also
QUASI UNA MISSA and SWEENEY’S VISION
DeutschlandRadioBerlin

July 6
SWEENEY’S SMITHEREENS, TRADURRE-TRADIRE, CONCERTO FOR STRINGS
Radio Berlin Brandenburg/Kultur Frank Corcoran Programme

June
SÚIL / SAOL
for Female Choir composed for Cantairí Óga Atha Cliath
QUASI UN BASSO for Solo Double-Bass composed for Allan von Schenkel.

June 30
International James Joyce School.
University of Trieste.
Guest-lecture :‘‘James Joyce And Music.’’

June 26
Tradurre-Tradire
Radio Clásica, Madrid broadcast

June 16
IRISCHE MIKROKOSMOI, 3. SINFONIE, MAD SWEENEY
included in NDR Kultur : Musik der Barden

June 16
Quasi Una Visione
DeutschlandRadioBerlin broadcast.
(from RTÉ ‘Living Music’ Festival 2005 )

June 5
Zagreb Biennale programme
Lyric FM broadcast

April 22
QUASI UN CANTO and SWEENEY´S SMITHEREENS.
(Zagreb Philharmonic/Chikawara Wakamura)
Zagreb Biennale/World Music Days 2005

April 4
CONCERTO FOR STRINGS, TRAUERFELDER and SWEENEY´S SMITHEREENS.
R.A.I. Rome, Third Programme

March 8
Horizons
CONCERT WITH THE N.S.O.I
in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
*12.30 The Composer Speaks
*13.00 Concert, including
*Frank Corcoran: QUASI UN LAMENTO world-premiere
*Lutoslawski: FUNERAL MUSIC for Strings
*Frank Corcoran: QUASI UN CANTO
for Large Orchestra. world-premiere

February 19
QUASI UNA VISIONE for Orchestra.
Living Music Festival, Dublin.
Premiere.

January 29
QUASI UN PIZZICATO
Wireworks Ensemble Hamburg premiere

Jan. 20
TRAUERFELDER / GOIRT AN BHRÓIN for 4 Percussion
Mostly Modern / Bank of Ireland series :
50 Years After Auschwitz Liberation.
Richard O’Donnell Percussion Ensemble

Jan. 9
9 ASPECTS OF A POEM
for Solo Violin and Choir
Lyric Fm
(National Chamber Choir/Celso Antunes;
violin, Catherine Leonard. 2004)

2004

Dec. 2004

The Quiet Quarter ( RTÉ / New Island Press , ed. Eoin Brady )

includes Frank Corcoran "The Sound Of Exile".

Lyric Fm

commissions Frank Corcoran´s VARIATIONS ON " A Mháirín De Bharra" for Solo Viola.

November 29

Wireworks Ensemble Hamburg premieres Frank Corcoran´s new "Quasi Un Pizzicato" for Sop., Speaker, Flutes, Piano, Harp, Electronics, Percussion ( Commission 2004 )

December

Zeitklang Berlin produces Frank´s new CD " Sweeney´s Smithereens" .

August 12, at 18.30

Premiere National Gallery Dublin , with the National Chamber Choir and Catherine Leonard, Violin. Conductor: Celso Antunes
9 ASPECTS OF A POEM for Violin And Choir

June 20

Templebar open-air Bloomsday concert has my "Concertini of Ice" for chamber orchestra, Fergus Johnston conducting.

May

Arts Council supports new, planned ZEIT-KLANG CD, "Sweeney´s Smithereens". Will include new and old Corcoran works ( "SeaNua" = "OldNew".... )

May 2

2004 Radio Clásica, Spain, broadcasts all Frank Corcoran´s electro-acoustic works

May 16

Hugh Lane: premiere of "Quasi Un´Amore".

Sunday May 23

LYRIC FM 60^th Birthday Interview on new Corcoran works

June

John Feeley records " 3 Pieces For Guitar".

July 2

DeutschlandRadioBerlin premiere: " TRADURRE-TRADIRE".
(see James Joyce and My Music)

August 12

National Gallery, Dublin. " 9 ASPECTS OF A POEM" for Solo Violin and Choir, National Chamber Choir. Premiere.

2004

International Jury-member: CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE CITTÁ DI TRIESTE

2004

International Jury-member: for World Music Days 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia

DeutschlandRadioBerlin has commissioned :

"HOW TO TRANSLATER HER SCREAM", electro-acoustic with voices, for 2004. First broadcast-date: July 2 DLRadioBerlin

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2003

November 25.

RB-B Kultur Radio-Portrait

November 19

Lisinski Hall, Zagreb "Cantus" Chamber Orchestra under their Chief Conductor, Berislav ´Sipu´s , perform ne QUASI UN CONCERTO

November 4

LYRIC Fm Radio-Portrait (Ireland)

May 10, Malmð

Swedish Festival " Elektrisk Helg" 2003 gives the Nordic premiere of "Mad Sweeney"
with Stockholm´s ARS NOVA, conducted by André Chini.
Speaker: Frank Corcoran.

Also: Frank Corcoran´s "Sweeney´s Vision" and "Irish Mikrokosmoi" for Solo Piano.
Pianist: Frank Corcoran.

August 10, Dalmation island of lovely Vis.

Premiere of new "Quasi Un Concertino" for Chamber Orchestra
(CANTUS of Zagreb. Conductor: Berislav ´Sipu´s).

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