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– Thu 4 Sep: Nassau oblige - 12 Widmungsmusiken (1813-2005) an die Herrscher der Dynastie Luxemburg-Nassau, for Woodwind-Quartet Wiesbaden, Germany
– Sat 6 Sep: Seann Branchfield Acoustic Performance Gizzy's Coffee 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY, USA
– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK
– Thu 2 Oct: First performance of a work for orchestra Casa de la Musica, Quito, Ecuador
– Sun 5 Oct: Eisenhower Farewell Address Castro Valley Center for the Arts, Castro Valley, California, USA

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

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– (2005) Peter Wallin: First performance of movement 1 & 2 from "The Mouse", in Holsted, Denmark.
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– (1733) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Premiere of La Serva Padrona, in Naples, Italy.

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Born: 18 April 1958 — Kavaje — Albania

Died:

Simaku’s music has been reaching audiences all over Europe and the USA for over a decade, and it has been awarded a host of accolades for its highly expressive qualities and its unique blend of drama, intensity and modernism.

Albanian-born British composer Thomas Simaku (b. 1958) graduated from the Tirana Conservatoire and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of York (1991–96) where he was awarded a PhD in Composition, studying with David Blake. Winner of the coveted Lionel Robbins Memorial Scholarship in 1993 (Simaku was the only candidate in the UK to win the award that year), he also was the 1996 Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at Tanglewood Music Centre in the USA studying with Bernard Rands, and a fellow at the Composers’ Workshop, California State University (1998), with Brian Ferneyhough. In 2000 he was awarded a prestigious Fellowship from the Arts & Humanities Research Council in London.

• http://www.uymp.co.uk/composers/simaku1.htm
• http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ts8

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