School of Music
Dr Eno Koço
Senior Teaching Fellow
0113 2780512
- ARTISTIC AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1984 Honoured Artist of Albania (conducting award)
- 1998 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Leeds)
- 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
- 1992-07 Principal conductor of the orchestra of the School of Music in 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
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 has also given papers on the same theme at different universities. He is the author of Treatise on Orchestration, Albanian Musical Life in the 1930s, Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s, Korçare Distinctive Song, Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s as well as several articles in Albanian and English. 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) Practice. On the latter topic he was granted the AHRC award in 2006.
