MARTYNA KOSECKA

Menu
  • LIST OF WORKS
  • CALENDAR
  • ABOUT
  • RESEARCH
  • MEDIA
  • CONTACT
Menu

LIST OF WORKS

ELECTRONIC & VIDEO
SOLO
ENSEMBLE (2-8 PLAYERS)
CHAMBER (9-17 PLAYERS)
ORCHESTRA
OPERA
EXPERIMENTAL

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

/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: 65′  ||| Instrumentation: vocal sextet, electric string quartet, eight-channel electronics, projections ||| Premiere: October 2025, Neoarte Synthesizer of Arts Festival, Gdansk
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

UPCOMING~~~ Erēmos for trumpet with live electronics and string orchestra (2024-2025) ~~~UPCOMING
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.


UPCOMING~~~ Tessera for chamber orchestra of mixed instruments (2023-2025) ~~~UPCOMING
Duration: 13’ ||| Setting: fl., kaval, cl, s.sax / Persian perc. / arp., oud, zither, azeri tar, robab / kamanche / str.(2.2.1.1.1)
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.

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.

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

©2022 MARTYNA KOSECKA | Picture ©Siv Dolmen