Frank Corcoran

Still Life with Guitar17 Mar, 1pm (National Museum Cardiff is open for most Bank Holidays, please check prior to your visit to ensure the museum will be open.)
National Museum Cardiff

In celebration of the shared Celtic heritage of Wales and Ireland, Still Life with Guitar presents an exciting programme of new music for flute and guitar, including performances of works by Welsh composers Mervyn Burtch and Peter Reynolds, plus, for the first time in Britain, works by Irish composers Frank Corcoran, Martin O’Leary and John Buckley.

The programme:

Mervyn Burtch: Sonatina for flute and guitar (2011)

Martin O’Leary: Flight for solo flute (1987)

Peter Reynolds: Serenata I for flute and guitar (1994)

Frank Corcoran: Three Pieces for Guitar (1990)

John Buckley: In Winter Light for alto flute and guitar (2004)

www.stilllifewithguitar.co.uk

Upcoming performances of music by Frank Corcoran
Composer Frank Corcoran has a number of pieces, new and old, in performance across the world during March and April.

The recording of Corcoran’s Violin Concerto, premiered last November by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with Alan Smale, conducted by Christopher Warren-Green, receives a number of broadcasts by the Dutch Radio Concertzender.

On 12 March in New York, North South Consonance, conducted by Max Lifchitz, will premiere a new work called Variations On Myself for chamber orchestra (supported by Culture Ireland – more on the concert here).

An Irish-themed event taking place at Cardiff National Museum on St. Patrick’s Day by the Welsh guitar, viola and flute trio Still Life with Guitar will feature the 2012 commission Seven Cubist Cardiff Miniatures, with a repeat performance planned for November this year.

9 April sees the Zagreb Trio, led by Martin Drausnik, perform Corcoran’s 1977 Piano Trio as part of the 2013 Zagreb Biennale in the Lisinki Concert Hall. This is an important work in the output of the composer, which saw him first develop his technique of macrocounterpoint which characterised his later works.

Maria Schwegmann :

Irland heute – Tradition und Innovation in den Streichquartetten FRANK CORCORANS im Kontext der Musik seiner Zeit.
2008 University of Oldenburg

Sept. 27 1990 CAL ARTS School Of Music:
THE MUSIC OF FRANK CORCORAN
March 13 1992 HARVARD UNIVERSITY :
THE DOLMEN´S LAMENT : MUSICAL
ARCHETYPES IN IRISH KEENING
March 22 2001. MÜNCHEN MUSIKHOCHSCHULE
TONALE LANDSCHAFTEN
October 15 2003. LIMERICK UNIVERSITY
ON MY ” PIG” SYMPHONY
May 23 2005 ZAGREB BIENNALE
MEMBER OF THE MBZ JURY
Jan 20 2005 MOSTLY MODERN DUBLIN
“TRAUERFELDER”

Berlin 30. April 1980 Dr. Peter Girth, Intendant of the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.

” Dear Mr. Corcoran,
Your Symphony for 23 Wind Instruments is, I think,
of the works of yours which I know the most suitable for a performance. I intend to programme it as soon as possible. Please let me know about the orchestral material.
Yours etc. “

http://music.broadwayworld.com/article/Irish-Composer-Frank-Corcoran-to-Attend-the-Premiere-of-VARIATIONS-ON-MYSELF-20130225

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).

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Zagreb Trio

Vidmantas Bartulis: Express No. 3, or Glinka and Nemirovich-Danchenko on a Train Trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow / Ekspres br. 3, ili Glinka i Nemirovi?-Dan?enko na putu vlakom iz Sankt Peterburga do Moskve
Frank Corcoran: Klavirski trio
Wolfgang Rihm: Fremde Szene III / ?udna scena III, za klavirski trio
Peteris Vasks: Episodi e canto perpetuo / Epizode i stalni pjev

This morning´s minion,
How he rolleth high over,
His “There” now my “Here” .

Watch for Frank Corcoran´s new New York

premiere with North South Consonance

in New York:

http://www.northsouthmusic.org