Shirish Korde

Shirish Korde (born June 18, 1945) is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry. He is the Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has previously been on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Brown University. Korde studied jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music, analysis and composition at the New England Conservatory, and ethnomusicology at Brown University. Works His works include: * Tenderness of Cranes, for solo flute, influenced by Japanese shakuhachi techniques * Time Grids, for amplified guitar and tape * Constellations, for saxophone quartet * Drowned Woman of the Sky, a song cycle based on poems by Pablo Neruda * Nesting Cranes (2006), for solo flute and strings, premiered by Jennifer Gunn and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot * Svara-Yantra (2005), a violin concerto premiered by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with soloist Joanna Kurkowicz, who also played the American premiere *Songs of Ecstasy (2008) *Zikhr: Songs of Longing (2009) for soprano, flute, string trio, harp, tabla and percussion, premiered by the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of