ENO KOÇO
Conductor/Musicologist
Eno Koço is senior teaching fellow
in performance classes and permanent conductor of University of Leeds Philharmonia
at University of Leeds, School of Music. He conducts throughout North England
and maintains regular contact with several Balkan orchestras and opera houses.
He produces programs on the music of Albania for broadcast on BBC Radio
3 and BBC World Service and has also given papers on the same theme at different
universities (Limerick, Leeds, London, Tiranë, Prishtinë).
Eno Koço is the author of Treatise on Orchestration (Tirana
1977), Albanian Musical Life in the 1930s (Tirana 2000), Albanian
Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s (Tirana 2002), Korçare Distinctive
Song (Tirana 2003), Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s
(Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004) as well as several articles in Albanian and
English published in Kultura Popullore, Studia Albanica,
The Musical Times and Scarecrow Press, Inc. He has made
numerous recordings of Albanian music, instrumental and vocal, and has recorded
music by V. Williams, Tippet and Wilby. His new CD featuring Albanian classical
composers has been recently released by Kailas, at St. Petersburg.
(See also Eno Koço’s CV, and Press Excerpts in England)
| Artistic and academic qualifications |
| 1984 |
Honoured Artist of Albania (conducting award) |
| 1998 |
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Leeds) |
| 2005 |
Associate Professor (The Academy of Arts, Tirana, Albania) |
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| Artistic appointments |
| 1966 |
Graduated from the Tirana Conservatory as a violinist |
| 1966-72 |
Violinist with the Tirana Opera Orchestra |
| 1972-78 |
Conductor of the Tirana Music School |
| 1977 |
Graduated from the Tirana Conservatory as a conductor |
| 1976-91 |
Conductor of the Albanian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra |
| 1992-2005 |
Principal conductor of the University of Leeds Philharmonia
orchestra at the University of Leeds |
| 1993-95 |
Conductor of the York Symphony Orchestra |
| 1994-97 |
Conductor of the Harrogate Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 1994-02 |
Principal Conductor of the Yorchestra |
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| Specialist teaching |
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Conducting, orchestration, violin, chamber music |
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| Publications |
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Orchestration, Treatise, with Gj. Simoni, for secondary
schools (Tirana, Sh.B.L.Sh., 1977) 135 pages |
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Periodical articles, published between 1970 and 1991 and from
1998 onwards, in Albanian newspapers and magazines (in Albanian) |
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Book: Albanian Musical Life in the 1930s (Tefta
Tashko Koço and Her Contemporaries), Tirana, Dituria, 2000, 256 pages,
(in Albanian)
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Book: Kënga Lirike Qytetare Shqiptare në vitet 1930
(The Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s), in Albanian, Tiranë,
Toena, Albania, 2002, 480 pages |
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Book: Kënga Karakteristike Korçare (The Korçare
Distinctive Song), in Albanian, Tiranë, Toena, Albania, 2003, 119 pages |
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Article: Lyra Shqiptare (Albanian Lyre), the first compilation
of Albanian urban songs (published in Kultura Popullore, Tiranë,
2001, No. 1–2, 7 pages) |
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Article: “Albanian Urban Music” (published in Studia Albanica,
Tiranë, 2001, 20 pages, in English) |
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Book: Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s, Scarecrow Press,
Inc., 2004, 400 pages,
(in English) |
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Article: Shostakovich, Kadaré and the nature of dissidence:
an Albanian view, in Musical
Times, England, 2005, 16 pages, (in English) |
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Article: A Family of Song: Reflections of Albanian Urban Lyric Song
in the Mediterranean,
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005, 23 pages, (in English) |
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| In Preparation |
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Article: The Vocal Iso(n) and Some Modal Issues. |
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| Broadcasting Programmes |
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BBC Radio 3 (1993); BBC Radio 3 (1994); BBC World Service
Radio, Series: 2001 WS Meridian Music (2002) |
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| Papers |
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Albanian Urban Music Tradition, Limerick 1998; Traditional
Music of the Mediterranean, Leeds 2001; Albanian Urban Music Tradition,
London 2003; Albanian Traditional Music, Cambridge, 2004. |
