Staff Profiles : Eno Koço

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 European orchestras and opera houses. He produces programmes on the music of Balkans 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).
He 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 and Perla. In 2005 he published articles A Family of Song (for Scarecrow Press), Shostakovich, Kadaré and the nature of dissidence (for The Musical Times). Another article in preparation is The Vocal Iso(n): The Preservation of Traditions in North East Mediterranean Practice. On the latter topic he was granted the AHRC award in 2006.
He has made numerous recordings of Albanian music, instrumental and vocal, and has recorded music by V. Williams, Tippet and Wilby. His four CDs featuring Albanian Music Classics (vocal and orchestral) have been released in 2005 and 2006 (see CDs).
In February 2005 he was nominated as an Associate Professor from the Academy of Arts in Tirana.






