Martin Smolka has been played on NTS shows including Jim O'Rourke, with LiPoLied (2020) for soprano and guitar quartet (Text by Li Po) first played on 22 February 2024.

Born in 1959 in Prague, Martin Smolka entered the world of music in the early 1980s when he and Miroslav Pudlák (joined later by Petr Kofroň) founded Agon, an ensemble that in the late 80s and early 90s was the most significant mediator of the world's musical avant-garde in the Czech scene, which at the time was dominated by the officially backed domestic pseudo-modernism. From the very outset of his career as a composer, we can…