Compositions are presented in chronological order.
In order to read more about each work, click on its title.
- duration: 12'25''
- commissioned by and dedicated to Ensemble K!ART
- program note: TBA
- duration: ca 11'40'' WATCH
- premiere: 12.04.2021, 33rd Krakow International Festival of Composers Krakow/Poland
- performers: Martyna Klupś-Radny - flute, Tomasz Sowa - clarinet, Dominika Peszko - piano, Agnieszka Bugla - violin, Natalia Warzecha-Karkus - viola, Aleksandra Lignar - cello
- program note: Small "o" - the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet - number seventy - Phoenician "eye". The ambiguity of the tiniest, almost imperceptible in the symbols we use, etymological complexities, creates a hidden landscape of world history. Omicron sharpens the unnoticeable. It is shaped by details whose reminiscences make a new sphere of meanings - this time, the sonic ones. The composition belongs to the aesthetic of works written by me under the influence of "The Timbral Microperspectives" concept, developed since last year.
- duration: 6’05'' WATCH
- premiere: 21.12.2020, Yalda Electroacoustic Music Marathon, online
- program note: Tinnitus, the perception of noise and the high pitched ringing in the ears is the problem of almost twenty percent of humankind. It most commonly reveals itself in the face of stress or fear. Hypertexture realistically simulates tinnitus audio sensations and mixes its distorting shape over the sonic and visual layer.
- duration: 7’30'' WATCH
- premiere: 11.05.2021, Festival NOWA MUZYKA Bydgoszcz/Poland
- dedication: for Lech Bałaban
- program note: Passaggio III belongs to the new cycle devoted to the issues of transition, change, and metamorphosis. This short virtuoso form requires the performer’s skills in the synchronic presentation of multiple musical elements – traditional play as well as singing, whistling, or noise effects.
- duration: 8’05'' LISTEN
- setup: stereo
- premiere: TBA
- material developed at NOTAM, Oslo
- program note: Rubaʿi is a type of short poem consisting of four lines, popular especially in classical Persian poetry. In this composition, I have used four different types of voices, reciting Rubaiyat by Persian poet Omar Khayyam, and transformed the original material into a certain musical odyssey of sounds.
- duration: 9’28'' WATCH
- 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
- program note: Isorropía. In search of balance presents a fight of carefully selected and meticulously designed groups of spectrums. The musical question over which the composer ponders is how to grasp musical moments in which timbral groups or sound objects with ostensibly opposite qualities can sustain a sounding balance and interact with each other.
Is it possible to strike that balance? Or perhaps failure is still inevitable?
- duration: 9’
- premiere: 2020/2021 season, TBA
- performers: Nico Couck
- program note: Stagṓn is a work for a microtonally retuned guitar that explores the possibilities of polyphonic microtonal collages through melodic structures. Woven with high harmonic patterns, Stagṓn reshapes, reappears and reemerges as a constantly evolving drop of musical processes.
- duration: 10’46'' WATCH
- 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
- program note: The extreme cold torn you apart. The cracking of the bones can be heard. Freezing hell-fire consumes what is lost in sin. Zamharīr: Frozen timelessness is just a mere attempt of describing the sounds and atmosphere that can be heard at this level of hell. Timelessness beyond.
- duration: 23’ WATCH
- premiere: 26.04.2019, 4th Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, Iran.
- performers: Nilper Orchestra, Navid Gohari – conductor, Barbara Borowicz – clarinet, Bartosz Sałdan – percussion;
- program note: Innovative set of virtuoso instruments, expression beyond imagination, and bold usage of harmonic solutions are just a few to mention in reference to Concerto for clarinet, multipercussion, and string orchestra. Kosecka, by a swift manipulation of time and rhythmical structures, presents a unique soundscape in this two-movement Concerto, so important piece enlarging the repertoire for clarinet and percussion duo.
- duration: 7’
- dedication: Idin Samimi Mofakham
- premiere: 7.03.2019, Baltic Cultural Centre, Gdańsk, Poland,
- performers: Idin Samimi Mofakham – alto saxophone, Dariusz Mazurowski – tape realization
- program note: Halos represents a play of reflexes, little nuances and repetitions that work in a constant dialogue between soloist and tape material.
- duration: 6’30’’ LISTEN
- score purchase: HERE
- written and dedicated to Daniel Costello
- premiere: 20.03.2019, Brno Music Conservatoire, Czech Republic, Daniel Costello – horn
- program note: Enigma is a cycle of works for brass and wind instruments, exploring the technical possibilities of each instrument in a virtuoso way. Each Enigma is a riddle. Enigma does not reveal its meaning easily – it is complex, unpredictable and full of contrasts.
Enigma I for horn solo focuses on the sound transitions between stopped/half stopped pitches combined into long-breath phrases. Some might notice traces of a certain Persian scale plotted gently into the narration, but...shh! It's Enigma! I'm not allowed to say anything more!
- duration: 8’ WATCH
- dedication: Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
- premiere: 6.12.2018, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Musikaliska, Stockholm, Sweden
- program note: Āzar is a composition, which is inspired by the slightest nuances of saxophone possibilities, especially dynamic ranges, harmonic clusters and polimelodical integration within the group. The middle part of the composition introduces a modal material taken from Iranian modal system, transformed into a complicated net of relations and transitions between each other.
- duration: 11’30’’
- instrumentation: (1.1.1.1./1.1.1.0/1.1.1.1.1.)
- NOT PERFORMED
- program note: Ourobóros explores the time looping and devouring of musical material within itself, reaching to a perfect circular form. The piece is heavily influenced by microtonal aesthetic and post-spectral sound operations, marking a new chapter in Kosecka's compositional path.
- score purchase: HERE
- premiere: 1.06.2019, Risuonanze Festival for New Music, Udine, Italy, Ghenadie Rotari – accordion
- program note: The music of Charactiras explores the sound world and techniques for accordion writing, focusing on the melodical element of accordion, while keeping the modernity in harmonies, rhythms and textures for the instrument.
- duration: 7’50''
- originally composed as tenor recorder and tape work, revised in 2020 for enabling the performance for bass flute
- dedication: Sylvia Hinz
- premiere: 30.04.2018, Tehran, III Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, Sylvia Hinz - tenor recorder, Jeanne Artemis Strieder - sound diffusion
- program note: Hypnos is a dream; Hypnos is a passage through the mosaic of memories and flashes of the closed eye state. It disputes the concepts of time flow, sleepiness, and variable points of focus. The piece is written in the Dastgāh-e Māhur Persian scale and explores certain harmonic states and motivic groups that are the characteristic components of a dream, my Persian dream.
- duration: 90’ WATCH EXCERPT
- form: magical opera in one act
- 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
- program note: Opera Klothó -Thread of the Tales by Martyna Kosecka is a magical one-act feast of fairytales and fables, linked altogether into a maze of stories from around the world, where none of them ever finds an ending. Two ordinary families, living in a night kingdom of vicious Shā, attempt to fulfill the task impossible to accomplish in order to finally live in happiness and wealth. Their actions lead to unforeseen and dramatic turns of events…
- duration: 5’ WATCH
- dedication: Dale Tsang
- premiere: 26.06.2016, Kraków, Poland, Dale Tsang - piano
- commission: Ensemble for These Times
- program note: The piece describes different fluctuations of time in space that is presented by means of music. The phenomenon, which inspired the creation of this piece, was a morning fog. It always glides in various tempos, uncontrolled, free and mysterious as always.
- duration: 16’ WATCH
- form: musical theater
- premiere: 14.11.2015, Geneva, Switzerland, EKLEKTO Percussion Ensemble
- commission: EKLEKTO Geneva Percussion Center
- program note: Umbra is a Latin word, describing shadow, darkness and different kind of shelters. This is how I imagine myself colors and atmosphere that comes along with the subject of sheltering, finding protection in modern world. It is always followed by insecurity, darkness and fear.
- duration: 8’
- dedication: Blanka Dembosz and Mateusz Loska
- premiere: 13.10.2015, ensemble sopranKONTRAbas
- program note: Akmḗ is a word from ancient Greek, describing the ability of the biggest mind powers of human beings. Furthermore, from medical terminology, it specifies the highest level of fever. The meaning of this word is tightly connected to the short poem by Iranian mystic Fayez Dashti, used in this composition.
- duration: 7’ WATCH
- premiere: 26.03.2015, Poznań City Council, 44th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Mateusz Loska - double bass
- program note: Passaggio II for double bass solo belongs to the new cycle devoted to the issues of transition, change and metamorphosis. This short virtuoso form requires the performer’s skills in synchronic presentation of multiple musical elements – traditional play as well as singing, whistling or noise effects.
- duration: 5’
- short opera for two voices and instrumental ensemble: 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.
- program note: The opera is based on a short Chinese fable, showing the adventure of a little puppy. Kochawaya (the name given by the composer) heard from people from the village about the dangerous charm of mountains. It starts to think that people say scary things about mountains only to make the puppy frightened, so it decides to see it on its own.
- duration: 5’
- premiere: 8.11.2015, Music Academy in Lodz, Poland, sopra(n)cello duet.
- program note: Passaggio I for female voice and cello belongs to the new cycle devoted to the issues of transition, change, and metamorphosis. This short virtuoso form requires the performer’s skills in the synchronic presentation of multiple musical elements – traditional play as well as singing, whistling or noise effects.
- duration: 7’ WATCH
- premiere: 25.08.2015, Ostrava/Czech Republic, Ostrava Days Festival for New and Experimental Music 2015, Stephanie Liedtke – bassoon, Keiko Shichijo – piano
- program note: The Sial refers to the composition of the upper layer of the Earth’s crust, namely rocks rich in silicates and aluminum minerals. My Sial is an attempt to transcribe the rock nature of the upper layer of the Earth’s crust into the musical feeling of its structure, solidity, and firmness.
- duration: 9’
- score purchase/rental/performance permits: HERE
- string orchestra (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;
- program note: Orsi is a piece inspired by the culture of the orient, where all the colors and glimpses of Eastern life shine and create a complex net of connotations. The base for the compositional material of Orsi is a selection from Persian modal scales, rediscovered in a contemporary language narration.
- duration: 12’ LISTEN
- 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
- program note: From ancient Greek: abyssal, the unfinished, bottomless depth. A bathyscaphe goes deeper, penetrates, and wants the light unknown. Composition for four clarinets and live electronics (4-channel) tells the story of the journey in the sea depths.
- duration: 9’ LISTEN WATCH
- 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
- program note: The word Ápeiros comes from Ancient Greek and describes the infinity, everlasting of the events and stability of narration. The meaning of this word is rewritten in music for the eternal feeling of love.
- 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
- program note: ImPulsus was inspired by the music of Giacinto Scelsi that brings a lot of thought on the inner pulse of phrases. Those explorations, along with researches on the duration of music events in time, fill the narration of the piece.
- duration: 6’30'' WATCH
- score purchase: HERE
- premiere: 1.05.2015, 2015 York Spring Festival of New Music, England, Geert Callaert - piano
- program note: A piece written in order to experiment with duration, timings and harmonies that hang in the space constructed strictly by the will of performer, who follows the suggestions in proportional notation.
- duration: 9’ LISTEN
- score purchase: HERE
- setup: fl./ob./cr./vln./vc./pf
- premiere: 8.11.2012, Axes The New Music Triduum, Kraków, Poland; Ensemble Nostri Temporis, Grzegorz Wierus - conductor
- program note: ENT1701 is a postcard from a trip to my beloved country. The piece is filled with structures that musically illustrate all the wonders of fauna and flora that exist in this incredible climate. There are shapes of stalagmites, milliards of stars glittering in the sky, the sound of a bird singing at night-time or the overwhelmingly intense color of callistemon citrinus…
- duration: 13’ WATCH
- setup: fl./ob./alto sax./acc./pf./vln.
- premiere: 31.05.2012, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Glyptos Ensemble.
- program note: Love Scenes is a composition written especially for Glyptos Ensemble. A piece presents a relationship between two people. You can notice the whole game of shades that show in behavior and everyday reactions of human beings.
- duration: 13’ LISTEN
- 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.
- program note: The phenomenon of rain transition inside the cloud.
- duration: 18’ LISTEN
- premiere: 31.03.2012, Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland. Natalia Szmydt – violin, Iza Burda – cello, Paweł Zając – piano.
- program note: The piece analyses the time procedures through different harmonies, connected to the microtonal system. It is like an inevitable counting of life.
- duration: 5’
- score/part purchase: HERE
- premiere: 15.04.2011, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Arnold Dubanik – clarinet, Piotr Kowal – piano.
- program note: Fragments is a short composition for clarinet and piano, focusing on different ways of dividing the musical material, from rough thoughts to calm and melodic contrasts.
- duration: 5’ LISTEN
- score purchase: HERE
- premiere: 3.12.2010, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland, Dawid Pliskowski – alto saxophone
- program note: Znikomek tells the story of a small magical creature that tends to disappear from time to time. Although being rather tiny, it can have a huge temper and quickly scream it’s statement, before suddenly… disappears.
- duration: 4’00'' LISTEN
- setup: 5.0 or stereo
- premiere: 26.09.2009, 52. Warsaw Autumn Festival for Contemporary Music
- program note: A piece is a tribute to the work of famous polish avant-garde composer and theoretician, Bogusław Schaeffer.
- duration: 8’ WATCH
- setup: pf./cb./cl.in Si/alto sax.
- premiere: 2.06.2010, Music Academy in Kraków, Poland. Chamber Academy Ensemble.
- program note: Starry Night is a piece inspired by the painting of Vincent van Gogh by the same title. It describes the atmosphere on the canvas, referring to the slightest details of the colours, shades and densities.
- duration: 5’ LISTEN
- premiere: 18.09.2008, Music School in Gdynia/Poland, Tomasz Zając – piano
- program note: One of the first successful pieces of Martyna Kosecka, although written in rather old stylistic, proves how her musical path has evolved through the years, at the same time reminding of the past sound-world, she had in her mind.