Thomas Simaku

For twelve solo Strings. Published 1998. 4. 3. 2. 2. 1 First performance: European Union Chamber Orchestra, conducted Lavard Skou Larsen, University of York, 26th February 1999. Score.

12'; for chamber ensemble Published 1998-9 1. 1. 1(+bcl). 0 / 1. 0. 0. 0 / pn. perc(2) / 1. 0. 1. 1. 0 Commissioned by the Chamber Ensemble of the Opera North Players with funds provided by the Yorksh...

For chamber ensemble. Published 2001. 2(1st+picc). 0. 2(2nd+bcl). 0. asx. tsx / 1. 2. 1. 1 / pf. acc. perc(1) / 0. 0. 2. 3. 0 First performance: Luxembourg Sinfonietta, International Composition Pri...

For Chamber Ensemble. Published 2003. Alto Flute, Clarinet (or Bass Clarinet), Piano, Percussion, Violin, and Cello. First performed by the Concorde Ensemble in Dublin, 7th March 2004. Study Score...

For 11 solo strings. Published 2004. Commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble. First performance: Goldberg Ensemble, conducted by Malcolm Layfield, Huddersfield, UK, 14th February 2005. Score

For solo Violin and Ensemble. Score.

For Chamber Ensemble. Alto Flute, Clarinet (or Bass Clarinet), Percussion, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello. Published in 2003. First performance: Ticom Ensemble, 30th November 2003, Innsbruck, Austria....

For 15 players. 1(+afl). 1. bcl(+cl). 1 / 1. 0. 0. 0 / acoustic gtr. mand. hp. pno(+cel) perc(1) / 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 Commissioned jointly by the Deutschlandfunk and Insomnio Ensemble First performance: F...

Thomas Simaku's La Leggiadra Luna arranged for choir a capella. The music begins with a song-like expression introduced at a slow pace, as if emerging from the remoteness of time itself. It is clearly...

Thomas Simaku 's Solar for Trumpet, Violin and Piano. This work is based on Philip Larkin's poem of the same title. Part of the High Windows volume (Faber & Faber 1974), Solar is one of Larkin's well...

Thomas Simaku 's Plenilunio II for String Orchestra (6. 6. 4. 3. 1). Composed 2003-2004, published 2005. First Prize of the 2004 Serocki International Competition. First performance: Polish Radio Cham...

Thomas Simaku 's My Beautiful Morea is for Soprano Saxophone and Piano. Moj e Bukura Moré (My Beautiful Morea) has its origin in Southern Italy, in Calabria,  where an Albanian community h...

Moj e Bukura Moré (My Beautiful Morea) has its origin in Southern Italy, in Calabria, where an Albanian community has lived for more than 500 years, and so has the song! The tenderness of the melodic...

Composed in 2012, Deux Hommages, was written for, and is dedicated to, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet. This 12 minute piece by the Albanian-born British composer Thomas Simaku, is based on the idea of...

For Viola and Cello. Published 2008. Dedicated to Garth Knox and Rohan de Saram First performance: Intrasonus Festival Venice, 3 May 2008 ''This music was composed during my DAAD residency in Berlin...

For string quartet. Published 2004. Second Prize of the 2005 Lutoslawski Award. First performance: Rubenstein Quartet, Warsaw, 14th February 2005.