Thomas Simaku’s new solo work Herkommann Aria received its world premiere at Kuks International Festival in Prague, on 23rd July 2016, performed by the leading Czech clarinettist Ludmila Peterkova.
The piece is based on a Czech baroque melody, Herkommann Aria, which serves as a ‘point of departure’; its character and salient intervallic properties are ‘freely elaborated into a textural format that focuses on the lyrical and echoes the remote atmosphere of the ancient melody’.