Donald Alexander Cochrane

Donald Alexander Cochrane (born 1928) is a Canadian composer, responsible for compositions, including symphonies, quintets and mixed choral/orchestra pieces. Education and Teaching Donald Alexander Cochrane, Canadian composer and pianist was born in Cornwall, Ontario. After high-school graduation he moved to New York City to study piano under Dr. Alexander Klahr, a former associate of the University of Vienna, Austria. He earned his BSc. degree from Columbia University, NYC. After that, he proceeded to study music composition with Dr. Hans Sachsse of the Munich High School for Music. For twenty-five years Cochrane worked as a high-school music department head in the Toronto area. After retirement, he continued work with computer music software. Composer He is a prolific composer whose oeuvre consists of 12 piano concerti (the last one was written in 2008), 10 symphonies, the last in 2004, 2 albums of piano music, 6 sets of orchestral variations, chamber music, a viola concerto for small Orchestra, 2 string quartets, 2 piano quintets, woodwind quintet, brass quintet, clarinet quartet, saxophone quartet, vocal music, settings from William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” – a capella – wi