1. biografia

[Amministratore]

Frank CORCORAN
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Amburgo (Germania) e Italia
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mail:
http://www.frankcorcoran.com/
luogo e data di nascita: Tipperary (Irlanda),1944

His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he explores particularly Irish issues like language and history. He has worked with text by the poet Seamus Heaney in the chamber piece Mad Sweeney (1996), and by the Irish-language writer Gabriel Rosenstock.
He studied at Dublin, Maynooth, Rome and Berlin. He was a music inspector for the Irish government Department of Education from 1971 to 1979, after which he took up a composer fellowship from the Berlin Künstlerprogramm. In the 1980s, he taught in Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg, where he was professor of composition and theory in the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Hamburg. He was a visiting professor and Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the U.S. in 1989-1990, and has been a guest lecturer at CalArts, Harvard University, Princeton University, Boston College, New York University and Indiana University.
He is the first Irish composer to have had a symphony premiered in Vienna (1st Symphony Symphonies of Symphonies of Wind in 1981).
Corcoran lives in Hamburg and Italy.