Thomas Simaku

Silver was expertly composed by Thomas Simaku. First published in 1995, Silver was commissioned by the New London Children's Choir, with funds provided by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. The piece r...

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...

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 Violin and Cello. Published 2008. Dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Neil Heyde. ''This music was composed during my DAAD residency in Berlin in October - November 2007. If I were to desc...

First published in 2003. Writen for and dedicated to the Kreutzer Quartet.

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

For String Quartet.

Thomas Simaku is an Albanian-born British composer whose music has been reaching audiences all over Europe and the USA for over a decade. The sheet music for String Quartet No. 4 - Parts has been bea...