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Vīrya electronic radio poem (2023-2024)
Duration: 17’10”  ||| Setup: ambisonic ||| Premiere: 28.04.2024, Samtidsmusikkpub, Oslo

Still Life electronic music (2023)
Duration: 4’04”  ||| Setup: ambisonic ||| Premiere: 30.05.2023, Vitensenteret, Trondheim


Hypertexture for quadraphonic tape and video (2020)
Duration: 6’05”  ||| Premiere: 21.12.2020, Yalda Electroacoustic Music Marathon, online


Ruba’i electronic music (2020)
Duration: 8’05” ||| Setup: stereo
Premiere: AudioArt Festival 2020, online ||| Material developed at NOTAM, Oslo


Topic: the music of pressure for fixed media (2009)
Duration: 4’00” ||| Setup: 5.0 or stereo
Premiere: 26.09.2009, 52. Warsaw Autumn Festival for Contemporary Music

monaxiá music theatre for percussion and electronics (2022-2023)
Duration: 13-14’ ||| Premiere: 9.09.2023, INN:PUST 2023 Gjøvik, Norway
Jennifer Torrence – percussion, Martyna Kosecka – electronics


éskhatos | at one end of a continuum for amplified harpsichord and multichannel electronics (2022)
Duration: 9’ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 18.09.2022, ATM Studio, 65. Festival for Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn”, Poland
Gośka Isphording – harpsichord, Martyna Kosecka – electronics

Split for soprano and quadraphonic setup (2021)
Duration: 9’30” ||| Commissioned for the projekt „Imaginary Real: Konzert für realisierbares Irreal und unrealisierbares Real!“
Premiere: 9.10.2021, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Sophia Körber – soprano, Martyna Kosecka – electronics, Vincent Michalke – sound diffusion

Passaggio III: Phantom for viola (2020)
Duration: 7’30” ||| Premiere: 11.05.2021, Festival NOWA MUZYKA Bydgoszcz/Poland, Lech Bałaban – viola

Stagṓn for guitar (2020)
Duration: 9’ ||| Premiere: 23.04.2022, BlaueFabrik Dresden, Germany, Mauricio Galeano – guitar

Hálōs. Reflexes for alto saxophone and tape (2019)
Duration: 7’ ||| Get the score: HERE ||| Dedication: Idin Samimi Mofakham
Premiere: 7.03.2019, Baltic Cultural Centre, Gdańsk, Poland, Idin Samimi Mofakham – alto saxophone, Dariusz Mazurowski – tape realization

Enigma I for horn (2019)
Duration: 6’30’’ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 20.03.2019, Brno Music Conservatoire, Czech Republic, Daniel Costello – horn

Charaktíras for accordion (2018)
Duration: 7′ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 1.06.2019, Risuonanze Festival for New Music, Udine, Italy, Ghenadie Rotari – accordion

Hypnos for bass flute or tenor recorder and tape (2018, rev. 2020)
Duration: 7’50” ||| Originally composed as tenor recorder and tape work, revised in 2020 for enabling the performance for bass flute
Premiere: 30.04.2018, Tehran, III Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, Sylvia Hinz – tenor recorder, Jeanne Artemis Strieder – sound diffusion

Nephélēs for piano (2016)
Duration: 5’ ||| Premiere: 26.06.2016, Kraków, Poland, Dale Tsang – piano
Commission: Ensemble for These Times

Passaggio II for double bass (2015)
Duration: 7’ ||| Premiere: 26.03.2015, Poznań City Council, 44th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Mateusz Loska – double bass

Ábyssos for clarinets and electronics (2013)
Duration: 12’ ||| Setup: four clarinets and live electronics with optional lightening, one instrumentalist (Es cl., B cl., A cl., bcl.)
Premiere: 22.03.2013, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Tomasz Jan Wilczyński – clarinets, Martyna Kosecka – electronics

Cogita! for piano (2012, rev. 2015)
Duration: 6’30” ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 1.05.2015, 2015 York Spring Festival of New Music, England, Geert Callaert – piano

Znikomek for alto saxophone (2010)
Duration: 5’ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 3.12.2010, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Dawid Pliskowski – alto saxophone

Dumka for piano (2006)
Duration: 5’ ||| Premiere: 18.09.2008, Music School in Gdynia/Poland, Tomasz Zając – piano

UPCOMING~~~ Forget-me-not (2025-2026) ~~~UPCOMING
Duration: 12′  ||| Instrumentation: piano, percussion, inside-piano projections and electronics
Premiere: May 2026 ||| Performers: Nowicki Duo

/ˈspɛktrəm/ for three microtonal tubas and live electronics (2024)
Duration: 12’ ||| Premiere: 17.09.2024, Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo, Norway
Performers: Microtub


Homāio for Persian ney (or flute), santur, percussion, string trio, and electronics (2022-2023)
Duration: 14’ ||| Premiere: 25.05.2023, CODES Festival of Traditional and Avantgarde Music, Lublin, Poland
Performers: [flow unit] Anna Kwiatkowska – violin, Mikołaj Pałosz – cello, Ewa Liebchen – flute, Paweł Czarny – viola, Magdalena Kordylasińska – percussion, Farnaz Modarresifar – santur, Idin Samimi Mofakham – electronics, Martyna Kosecka – conductor
Commission supported by Norsk Kulturfond


monolith|transparence for violin, bass clarinet, piano and percussion (2022-2023)
Duration: 12’ ||| Premiere: 23.03.2023, Olympiateatern, Stockholm, Sweden, Svensk Musikvår Festival
Commissioned by and written for ensemble KWARTLUDIUM


Illud Tempus. Movements for violin and viola (2022)
Duration: 11′ ||| Premiere: May 2022, Sale de Musique de Chambre, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Luxembourg, Duo del Gesú, Arnaud Kaminski – violin, Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf – viola

Xénos for cello and piano (2022)
Duration: 6’40” ||| Premiere: 26.06.2022, Museum Galicja, Kraków, Poland, Ensemble E4TT

Zbłąkane Miasta – song for soprano and piano (2021)
Duration: 7′ ||| Premiere: 27.03.2022, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland, Aleksandra Resztik – soprano, Katarzyna Ewa Sokołowska – piano
To the poem “Zamiast różowego listu” by Zuzanna Ginczanka ||| Co-financed through the program Composition Commissions 2021 by IMiT Poland


Weightlessness for flute(s), bass clarinet, piano, violin and cello (2021)
Duration: 7’15” ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 20.11.2021, Neimënster, rainy days festival, Luxembourg, United Instruments of Lucillin
Composed for the participation at the Luxembourg Composition Academy

Arkhḗ: Noise Maps for amplified string quartet, electronics and 3D mapping (2021)
Duration: 15’50” ||| Supported by Norsk Kulturfond
Premiere: 29.10.2021, Ratusz Staromiejski Gdańsk, X. NeoArte Festival, Gdańsk, Poland, NeoQuartet: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka, Paweł Kapica, Michał Markiewicz, Krzysztof Pawłowski

Diafoníes for amplified cello, electric guitar, piano with sampler, drumset & electronics (2021)
Duration: 12’58” ||| Commissioned by and dedicated to Ensemble K!ART
Premiere: 10.06.2021, OOS Mini Festival, Aarhus, Denmark

Isorropía. In search of balance for five instruments and electronics (2020)
Duration: 9’28” ||| Premiere: 23.09.2020, 63. International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn”, ATM Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Performers: Barbara Mglej violin, Paulina Woś-Gucik violin/viola, Martyna Zakrzewska piano/microtonal synthesizer, Aleksandra Gołaj percussion, Alena Budziňáková-Palus accordion, Przemysław Kunda sound projection
Electronic setup: quadraphonic, full amplification ||| Microtonal synthesizer developer – Bálint Laczkó ||| Quadraphonic material prepared at NOTAM, Oslo

Zamharīr: Frozen timelessness for flute, cello, piano and electronics (2019)
Duration: 10’46” ||| Premiere: 1.10.2019, Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater Berlin, Germany
Performers: Trio IAMA: Jannis Anissegos – flute, Maria Anissegou – violoncello Antonis Anissegos – piano, Martyna Kosecka – electronics

Āzar for saxophone quartet (2018)
Duration: 8’ ||| Dedication: Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
Premiere: 6.12.2018, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Musikaliska, Stockholm, Sweden

Umbra musical theatre for percussion trio and electronics (2015)
Duration: 16’ ||| Premiere: 14.11.2015, Geneva, Switzerland, EKLEKTO Percussion Ensemble
Commission: EKLEKTO Geneva Percussion Center

Akmḗ scene for female voice and double bass (2015)
Duration: 8’ ||| Dedication: Blanka Dembosz and Mateusz Loska
Premiere: 13.10.2015, ensemble sopranKONTRAbas

Passaggio I for female voice and cello (2014)
Duration: 5’ ||| Premiere: 8.11.2015, Music Academy in Lodz, Poland, sopra(n)cello duet.

Sial for bassoon and piano (2014)
Duration: 7’ ||| Premiere: 25.08.2015, Ostrava/Czech Republic, Ostrava Days Festival for New and Experimental Music 2015, Stephanie Liedtke – bassoon, Keiko Shichijo – piano

ENT1701 for flute, oboe, horn, violin, cello and piano (2012)
Duration: 9′ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 8.11.2012, Axes The New Music Triduum, Kraków, Poland; Ensemble Nostri Temporis, Grzegorz Wierus – conductor

Love Scenes for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, accordion, violin and piano (2012)
Duration: 13’ ||| Premiere: 31.05.2012, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Glyptos Ensemble

Piano Trio. A length of the hesitancy moment. From thought to creation (2011)
Duration: 18’ ||| Premiere: 31.03.2012, Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland, Natalia Szmydt – violin, Iza Burda – cello, Paweł Zając – piano.

Fragments for clarinet and piano (2010)
Duration: 5’ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 15.04.2011, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Arnold Dubanik – clarinet, Piotr Kowal – piano.

Starry Night for piano, double bass, clarinet and alto saxophone (2007)
Duration: 8’ ||| Premiere: 2.06.2010, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland. Chamber Academy Ensemble.

UPCOMING~~~ Ab Origine multidisciplinary ritual (2022-2025) ~~~UPCOMING
Duration: 85′  ||| Instrumentation: vocal sextet, electric string quartet, four-channel electronics, projections ||| Premiere: 26.10.2025, Nordic Voices, NeoQuartet – performance, Martyna Kosecka – video and sound diffusion, Idin Samimi Mofakham – technical assistance, Beata Kosecka – origami decoration elements, 14. Neoarte Synthesizer of Arts Festival, Gdańsk
Commissioned as a part of KUPP 2.1 Program for Composers in Norway


Saqar for large ensemble (2023)
Duration: 18’-19′ ||| Instrumentation: (1.1.1.1.1./1.1.1.0/2 batt./pfte/arp/1.1.1.1.1.)
Get the score: HERE ||| Premiere: 28.10.2023, Collegium Novum Zürich, Yalda Zamani – conductor
Commissioned by Collegium Novum Zürich for the celebration of 30 years of the ensemble’s activity


Ourobóros for ensemble (2018, rev. 2022)
Duration: 12’ ||| Instrumentation: (1.1.1.1./1.1.1.0/1.1.1.1.1.)
Get the score: HERE ||| Premiere: 8.04.2022, Collegium Novum Zürich, Yalda Zamani – conductor


Orsi for string orchestra (2014)
Duration: 9’ ||| Get the score: HERE ||| Setting: 5.4.3.3.1.
2nd prize at IV National Krzysztof Penderecki Composition Competition, Sopot, Poland
Premiere: 2.08.2017, 7th Sopot Classic Festival, Polish Cameral Sopot Philharmonic, David Runz – conductor;

Impulsus for ensemble (2013)
Duration: 10’ ||| Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1. / 1.0.0.0. / perc. / str.(1.1.1.1.1.)
Premiere: 21.09.2013, 56. International Festival for Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn, Chamber Orchestra ENSEMBLAGE, Marcin Piotr Łopacki – conductor

Erēmos for trumpet with live electronics and string orchestra (2024-2025)
Duration: 18’ ||| Setting: tr. solo, live-el for 8 channels / str.(6.6.4.4.2)
Premiere: 15.03.2025, 11. Festival of Premieres, Katowice, Poland, Jens Bracher – trumpet, AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, Marek Moś – conductor.


Tessera for chamber orchestra of mixed instruments (2023-2025)
Duration: 13’ ||| Setting: fl., kaval, cl, s.sax / Persian perc. / arp., oud, zither, azeri tar, robab / kamanche / str.(2.2.1.1.1) ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 7.03.2025, Casals Forum, Kronberg, Germany.
Commissioned by Bridges Chamber Orchestra.
Commission supported by Norsk Kulturfond.


Concerto for clarinet, multipercussion, and string orchestra (2019)
Duration: 23’ ||| Get the score: HERE
Premiere: 26.04.2019, 4th Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, Iran, Nilper Orchestra, Navid Gohari – conductor, Barbara Borowicz – clarinet, Bartosz Sałdan – percussion;

Ápeiros for chamber orchestra (2013)
Duration: 9’ ||| Instrumentation: 2.1.3(bcl).1 / 1.1.1.0. / 3perc.arp.pf. / str.(4.4.3.3.1)
Dedication: Idin Samimi Mofakham ||| Premiere: 13.12.2013 – Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Lutosławski Orchestra Moderna, Błażej Wincenty Kozłowski – conductor

Nimbostratus (2011)
Duration: 13’ ||| Orchestra: 3(picc).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cfg). / 4.3.3.1. / 4perc.arp.pf. / str.(14.12.10.8.6.)
Premiere: 28.08.2013, Ostrava/Czech Republic, Ostrava Days Festival for New and Experimental Music 2013, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Ondřej Vrabec – conductor.

UPCOMING~~~ Skiá mini-opera, for voice and multimedia (2025-2026) ~~~UPCOMING
Duration: 15′  ||| Setting: voice, electronics, projection
Premiere: 24.01.2026, Notam Foyer, Oslo, Norway ||| Martyna Kosecka – music, concept, libretto, electronics, projections and direction ||| Elisabeth Holmertz – voice, performance ||| Idin Samimi Mofakham – technical assistance
Libretto developed based on the contributions of women affected by the ageist treatment, received through a call announced in October 2025 on social media platforms

Lūmen mini-opera, monodrama for soprano and multimedia (2023-4)
Duration: 15’ ||| Setting: soprano, live electronics and video
Premiere: 4.10.2024, Levinsalen, The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway
Martyna Kosecka – music, concept, set, electronics, direction ||| Sophia Körber – soprano, performance
Bálint Laczkó – video design for MaxMSP ||| Idin Samimi Mofakham – technical assistance
Based on fragments from “White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners” (2022) by Narges Mohammadi with permission from OneWorld Publishing

Klothó -Thread of the Tales, magical opera in one act (2016-2017)
Duration: 90’  ||| Voices: 5 soloists (soprano, alto, contra-tenor, tenor, bas-baritone), narrator, 8-soloist choir
Orchestra: 1(picc).1(c.i.).1(bcl).1 / 2.1.1.0. / 2(3)perc.arp.pf.synth.cel. / str.(1.2.2.2.1)
Premiere: 22.04.2017, Zagreb, Croatia, Rijeka Opera Company, Berislav Sipus – conductor
Commission of 29th Music Biennale Zagreb
Libretto Martyna Kosecka; direction Krzysztof Cicheński, scenography and costumes Julia Kosek, projections and lights Bartłomiej Szlachcic


Kochawaya mini-opera for ensemble (2014)
Duration: 5’ ||| Setting: soprano, baritone, clb., fg., tr., pf., vln, vla, vc, perc. ||| Dedication: Idin Samimi Mofakham
1st prize at 5-Minute Opera Composition Competition at Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia 2015
Premiere: 21.04.2015, Festival Ensemble of 28. International Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia.

UPCOMING~~~ Readings. Les Guérillères (2025) ~~~UPCOMING
Experimental performance for two ||| Duration: 20′ ||| Setting: electric guitar with multieffects, voice with loop station, projections
Premiere: 30.10.2026, Levinsalen, The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway
Based on fragments from “Les Guérillères” by Monique Wittig, used with permission from Pushkin Press

The Son of Fire was Ash (2024)
Composed Theatre ||| Martyna Kosecka – concept, music, video, Polish translation of the text, direction, Ehsan Saboohi – playwright, Spectro Duo – performance ||| Duration: 35′
Premiere: 4.10.2024, Levinsalen, The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway

The Oasis of Now (2023)
Electroacoustic live set | Duration: 25’-30′
Premiere: 13.08.2023, 9th Sokołowsko Festival of Sound, Poland

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