Calendar of Performances
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2012
For a list of recent and up
coming performances, please follow the link to
University of York Music Press website
https://www.uymp.co.uk/composers/thomas-simaku/performances
Performances 2015
March 7, 2015
Akhmatova Song - World Premiere
Centre d’art contemporain
Le Mans, France
Juliette de
Massy (Soprano)
Rohan de Saram (Cello)
www.lafonderie.fr/la-fonderie/Ouvertures/article/voix-et-violoncelle-xxe-xxie-siecles-recital
March 8, 2015
From Across the
Sea
UpTown Flutes Ensemble
Caldwell University, New Jersey, USA
http://www.uptownflutes.com/?p=calendar
March 8, 2015
Akhmatova Song - World Premiere
Les moulins de paillard,
Centre d’art contemporain
Le Mans, France
Juliette de
Massy (Soprano)
Rohan de Saram (Cello)
http://moulinsdepaillard.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/3369/
March 29, 2015
Capriccioso
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin)
Pharos Foundation
Nicosia
http://pharosartsfoundation.org/a_flash_between_darkness.htm
March 30, 2015
Soliloquy V – Flauto Acerbo (b)
Version for Flute & Alto Flute
Iwona Glinka
Athens
March 28 –
April 4, 2015
California Tour, USA
Dressed in White - Albanian Folk Songs
Cornell University Choir
Conducted by Robert Isaacs
http://cuchorus.com/content/view/california-tour-2015.html
April 1, 2015,
7.30 pm
Hommage à Kurtág
Saddleworth Concerts Society
Millgate Arts Centre, Stoneswood Road, Delph OL5 3DY
Clare Hammond (Piano)
http://saddleworthconcertssociety.org.uk/programme
April 20,
2015, 7.30pm
Soliloquy V – Flauto Acerbo
Wienerkonzerhaus, Schubertsaal,
Vienna
Lorina Vallaster (Alto
& Tenor Recorders)
http://events.wien.info/de/gcy/musica-juventutis/
June 9, 2015,
6pm
Capriccioso
National Centre for Early Music, York
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin)
Performances 2014
December 16,
2014
Hommage à Kurtág (Albanian
Premiere)
Pianodrom Festival,
Ivo Gjika (Piano)
November 30, 2014
Capriccioso
Pharos Foundation, Nicosia
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin)
November 29,
2014
Three Albanian Folk Songs (Albanian
Premiere)
Choir of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Tirana
November 26,
2014
Capriccioso – World Premiere
King’s Place, London
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin)
November 26,
2014
International Music Week
Beijing Normal University, Beijing
The Flight of the Eagle (Chinese
Premiere)
Joseph Houston (Piano)
November 1,
2014
Dressed in White - Albanian Folk Songs (USA Premiere)
Cornell University Choir
Conducted by Robert Isaacs
Sage Chapel, Cornell
University,
USA
November 25
-28, 2014
Lectures & masterclasses
International Music Week
Music Department
Beijing Normal University, Beijing
November 24,
2014
Composition
Masterclass
Music Department, Centennial
Campus,
University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
November 21,
2014
Lecture: Soliloquy Cycle – Sweet and/or Sour?
Hui Yeung Shing Building, Chung Chi College
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
November 14,
2014
Ed e’ subito sera – Feim Ibrahimi in Memoriam
Tetovo University, Tetovo, Macedonia
Pjeter Guralumi (Cello), Etrita Ibrahimi (Piano)
November 5,
2014
Ed e’ subito sera – Feim Ibrahimi in Memoriam
National Theatre of Opera and Ballet Hall
Tirana
Pjeter Guralumi (Cello), Etrita Ibrahimi (Piano)
August 11,
2014
Three Albanian Folk Songs
Tonbridge Chapel, Kent
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Conducted by Adam Treadaway
Performances 2013
25 November 2013 -
Deux Esquisses
(World Premiere)
Wigmore Hall, London
Joseph
Houston (Piano)
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/the-monday-platform-33866
11 October 2013
La Chapelle
historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal
Transmission Ensemble
http://blogueaccesculture.com/chapelle-historique-bon-pasteur-25e/
9 October 2013 - Plenilunio
for 12 solo strings (London Premiere)
New London Orchestra, conducted by
Ronald Corp
St John Smith Square, London
http://www.nlo.co.uk/#/nlo-25-birthday-concert/4579281331
4 October 2013 - Soliloquy
Cycle – sweet and/or sour?
5th
Pharos International Festival of Contemporary
Music, Nicosia, Cyprus
In this lecture Thomas
Simaku will discuss the genesis and processes
involved in his Soliloquy Cycle,
including the award-winning work Soliloquy V
- Flauto Acerbo, and more!
http://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Pharos%20Music%20Festivals/lecture_Thomas_Simaku.htm
3 October 2013 - Solar for
Clarinet, Violin & Piano (World Premiere)
5th
Pharos International Festival of Contemporary Music
Transmission Ensemble
(Canada)
http://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Pharos%20Music%20Festivals/Ensemble_Transmission.htm
30
September 2013 - Hommage
à Kurtág
5th
Pharos International Festival of Contemporary
Music, Nicosia, Cyprus
Hayk
Melikyan
(Piano)
http://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Pharos%20Music%20Festivals/Hayk_Melikyan.htm
28 September 2013 - Concerto for
Orchestra (World Premiere)
Winning
work of the International Competition for
Lutosławski's 100th Birthday
Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Rafał Janiak
Warsaw Autumn International
Festival of Contemporary Music
26 July 2013
Stepping Up (London Premiere)
Alex Wilson (piano)
http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/event/free-lunchtime-piano-recital-alex-wilson/
9 May 2013
Spring Festival of New Music
Hommage à Kurtág (UK Premiere)
Joseph Houston (piano)
9 May 2013
Spring Festival of New Music
Trois Esquisses
Joseph Houston (piano)
6 April 2013
Late Music Series, York
Clocks & Times (WP)
Robert Rice (Baritone)
William Vann (piano)
14 March 2013
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Solar for Trumpet, Violin & Piano
Portumnus Ensemble
Hong Kong
8 March 2013
Middleton Hall, University of Hull
Solar for Trumpet, Violin & Piano (WP)
Commissioned by the Portumnus Ensemble, the work is based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same title
20 February 2013
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
String Quartet No 4
Quatuor Diotima
http://www.york.ac.uk/concerts/programme/quatuordiotima/
22 February 2013
St James’s Piccadilly, London
Trois Esquisses (WP)
Joseph Houston (piano)
Performances 2012
8 December 2012
Meridian
International Festival
George
Enescu Hall
Réflexions de la Croix
Profil Ensemble,
conducted by Tiberiu Soare
http://cimro.ro/8th-meridian-festival/
30
November 2012
Barber Institute, Birmingham
Soliloquy V - Flauto Acerbo
Christopher
Orton (Recorders)
http://www.concert-diary.com/concert/419594244/Barber-Lunchtime-Concert-Christopher-Orton-recorder-Slava-Sidorenko-piano-
10
November 2012
November
Music Festival
‘s-Hertogenbosch,
Holland
ThreeSaxLines
(World Premiere)
Raschèr
Saxophone Quartet
http://www.novembermusic.net/default.asp?pageID=207
1
November 2012
ISCM –
World Music Days, Brugge, Belgium
Soliloquy V – Flauto
Acerbo (European Premiere)
Tomma
Wessel (recorders)
http://www.concertgebouw.be/agenda_detail.php?aid=43013&newlang=fr
19
October 2012
St Martin
in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
Trois Esquisses (World
Premiere)
Joseph Houston (piano)
http://enterprise.smitf.org/
13 October 2012
Reflexions
de la Croix for Chamber Ensemble
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
Ergon Ensemble
http://www.sgt.gr/en
5
October 2012
Middleton
Hall, University of Hull
Soliloquy
V – Flauto Acerbo
Christopher
Orton (Recorders)
http://www.ihull.org/events/flauto-dolce-ed-il-flauto-nuovo/
28
September 2012
Pharos International Festival, Nicosia,
Cyprus
A2'for violin and cello
Members of El Perro Andaluz Ensemble, Dresden
http://thepharostrust.org/Pharos%20Music%20Festivals/El_Perro_Andaluz.htm
26
September 2012
Alicante
International Festival of Contemporary Music, Spain
String
Quartet No 4 (European Premiere)
Quatuor Diotima
http://ocio.diarioinformacion.com/agenda/alicante/conciertos/alicante/eve-730132-cuarteto-diotima.html
9 May 2012
York Spring Festival of New Music, Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
'A2' for violin and cello
Members of El Perro Andaluz Ensemble, Dresden
http://www.yorkspringfestival.co.uk/2012/elperro.php
27th
April 2012
National
Centre for Early Music, York
'Des Pas Chromatiques – Hommage à Debussy'
Rika
Zayasu (piano)
9th
February 2012
Nakas
Conservatory, Athens
'Soliloquy V' - Flauto
Acerbo', version for solo flute
Iwona Glinka (Flutes)
5th
February 2012
The Forge,
3-7 Delancey Street, London
'Des Pas Chromatiques –
Hommage à Debussy'
Rika
Sayazu (piano)