Background
Corral was born in Eagle River, Alaska, United States, in 1981.
Corral was born in Eagle River, Alaska, United States, in 1981.
While at Calarts he studied composition with Anne LeBaron and James Tenney.
He holds an Master of Fine Arts in music from the California Institute of the Arts (2007) and a B.M. from the University of Puget Sound (2004). His musical voice finds outlet in puppet operas, accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, player pianos, electronic collages, site-specific installations, chamber music, and interdisciplinary collaborations. The Los Angeles Times described the premiere at Zipper Hall of his Sigils for solo piano as "the recital’s strongest piece.
Sigils boasts a fascinating -- and somewhat split -- personality, with its mixtures of rhythmic data-dancing systems and more visceral, clustered fistfuls-of-notes, hazy keyboard cloud activity, and a deceptive "resolving chord" (with a flatted second in the bass)".
His second puppet opera, Zoophilic Follies, premiered September 2011 at REDCAT and featured Timur and the Dime Museum along with other musical guests. His first puppet opera, Le Petit Macabre, premiered in 2008 at Saint Anne"s Warehouse, Brooklyn as part of the Great Small Works Toy Theatre Festival.
lieutenant was inspired by Gyorgy Ligeti"s opera, Le Grand Macabre. He also composes, arranges, and plays accordion/electronics in Timur and the Dime Museum, a music ensemble featuring operatic tenor Timur Bekbosunov, clarinetist Brian Walsh, violist Cassia Streb, guitarist Matthew Setzer, bassist David Tranchina, and drummer Andrew Lessman.