Biography
Frank Corcoran is from Tipperary in Ireland. He moved to Dublin to study firstly, and went on to Maynooth, Rome and lastly Berlin to study with Boris Blacher.
Corcoran has had a very schorlarly background
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1980: Composer fellowship at the Berlin Kunstlerprogramm
1981: Guest professorship in West Berlin
1982: Professor of Music in Stuttgart
1983: Professor of composition and theory in the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst, Hamburg.
Corcoran has received numerous awards for his compositions:
1999: Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition Premier Prix, Sweeneys Vision was the work submitted
2002: Swedish EMS Prize for Quasi Una Missa.
Not only has Frank Corcoran given back through music he is also a founding member of Aosdana, an academy which encourages the creative arts
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.