He continued his studies from 1995 to 1996 at Humboldt University of Berlin and in 2001 at the Conservatoire de Paris.
He took composition master classes with Ivan Fedele in 2002 and Philippe Manoury in 2004, as well as a course at IRCAM in 2001.
His pieces were performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia and others, at festivals including Prague Spring, Ultraschall Berlin, Milano Musica, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.
[1] The opera South Pole [de], written by Srnka as a commission of Bavarian State Opera on a libretto by Tom Holloway, premiered there on 31 January 2016, with Rolando Villazón as Scott, Thomas Hampson as Amundsen, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, staged by Hans Neuenfels.
[7] The Los Angeles Times reported: ...'Overheating' is as exactly as uncomfortable as it needs to be, with its gusts of roiling and airless sounds.