Martin Smolka

Martin Smolka is a Czech composer, born in Prague in 1959. He studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and privately with Marek Kopelent. In 1983 he co-founded the Agon ensemble, devoted to the avant-garde past and present, and was its artistic director and prepared-piano player until 1998. Since 2003 he has taught composition at the Janáček Academy in Brno. His music uses retuned instruments, microtones and collages of reworked traditional music. Smolka's pieces include Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and So...