Thomas Simaku’s chamber music with Quatuor Diotima, available on BIS.
In 2019, together with American violinistSarah Saviet, he formed the Saviet/Houston Duo with whom he has since performed widely throughout Europe. Following their first performance together at Berlin’s Radialsystem, the duo’s recent activity includes the world premiere of a new work by Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2022, an appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall, and a concert of new violin and retuned piano works by composer Catherine Lamb at KM28 in Berlin. They released their debut album a clearing, featuring five co-composed pieces, on Marginal Frequency in September 2024, and their next album will be released in 2025.
He is a member of theOctandre Ensemble, a new music group based in London, and the Phonetic Orchestra: a collective of musicians based in Melbourne, Perth, and Berlin dedicated to exploring durational performance and the fluid borders between composition and improvisation. Further collaborations include work with Rolf Hind (piano), Lore Lixenberg (voice), and Lucy Railton (cello), as well as performances with the Boulez Ensemble, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion and Ensemble KNM Berlin.
Houston has collaborated with numerous composers on new and recent music including, among others: Rebecca Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Christian Mason, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Enno Poppe, Zeynep Toraman, Bryn Harrison, and Christian Wolff. Recordings of his performances have been released on labels such as WERGO, Another Timbre, Naxos, BIS, Sacred Realism, and Winter & Winter.