John Corigliano
Born: 16th February 1938, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
John Paul Corigliano is an American composer of contemporary classical music. With over 100 compositions, he has won accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Academy Award.
He is a former distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and part of the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. Corigliano is best known for his Symphony No. 1, a response to the AIDS epidemic, and his film score for François Girard's The Red Violin (1997), which he subsequently adapted as the 2003 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("The Red Violin") for Joshua Bell.
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John Corigliano and Mark Adamo on The Lord of Cries
21st Sep 2023
The composer and librettist discuss their spine-tingling new opera fusing elements of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Euripides's The Bacchae, released on Pentatone earlier this month and starring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Dionysus.
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John Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
27th Apr 2016
Katherine talks to the American composer about his 'grand opera buffa', which has just been released on CD for the first time by Pentatone.
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- A Black November Turkey (2)
- A Dylan Thomas Trilogy (1)
- An Anniversary for Lenny (1)
- And the People Stayed Home (1)
- Chiaroscuro For Two Pianos Tuned A Quarter Tone Apart (3)
- Christmas at the Cloisters (2)
- Concerto for Clarinet & Wind Ensemble (1)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (3)
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (3)
- Conjurer (1)
- Elegy (8)
- Etude Fantasy (10)
- Fancy on a Bach Air for solo cello (1)
- Fantasia on an Ostinato (18)
- Fern Hill (5)
- For Lenny, with love - and candor… (2)
- Fragment from 'Fancy on a Bach Air' (2)
- Gazebo Dances (13)
- Gazebo Dances Overture (1)
- Irish Folksong Settings (3) (3)
- Kaleidoscope for two pianos (2)
- L'Invitation au Voyage (1)
- Lullaby for Natalie (1)
- Midsummer Fanfare (1)
- Mr Tambourine Man - Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (3)
- Oboe Concerto (2)
- Once there was a golden bird (from The Ghosts of Versailles) (1)
- Phantasmagoria on 'The Ghosts of Versailles' (4)
- Piano Concerto (1)
- Pied Piper Fantasy (2)
- Prelude for Paul (2)
- Prelude: Mr Tambourine Man (from Mr Tambourine Man - Seven Poems of Bob Dylan) (1)
- Promenade Overture (1)
- Red Violin ‘Chaconne’ (4)
- Snapshot: Circa 1909 (2)
- Soliloquy for Clarinet and String Quartet (5)
- Sonata for Violin and Piano (19)
- Song to the Witch of The Cloisters (Hoffman) (1)
- String Quartet (2)
- Suite from the Film 'The Red Violin' (1)
- Symphony No. 1 (6)
- Symphony No. 2 (3)
- Symphony No. 3 ‘Circus Maximus’ (3)
- The Cloisters (1)
- The Lord of Cries (1)
- The Mannheim Rocket (1)
- The Red Violin Caprices (5)
- The Red Violin Caprices (for violin solo) (2002) (6)
- The Red Violin Concerto (5)
- Three Hallucinations from 'Altered States' (2)
- To Music (3)
- Tournaments Overture (2)
- Troubadours (Variations for Guitar and Orchestra) (2)
- Two Cabaret Songs (1)
- Violin Sonata (7)
- Vocalise (1)
- Voyage (4)
- Voyage for Flute and String Orchestra (5)
- Winging It - Improvisations for piano (2)
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My American Story – North
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