Passaggio III: Phantom
Written for, dedicated to and performed by: Lech Bałaban

Premiere: 11.05.2021
IX Contemporary Music Festival NOWA MUZYKA 2021, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Link to video performance: https://youtu.be/ChebbarK4rA?t=388

Passaggio III: Phantom (2020) for viola

A piece chosen to the finale round of CALL FOR SOUNDS Competition 
First performance during 52. Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music 2009
Tęcza Studio, Hall nr 5, Warsaw, Poland
26.09.2009

Topic: The Music Of Pressures (2009) for fixed media

for string orchestra

Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio
Recording - January 2020

Orsi (2014) for string orchestra

Hálōs
Reflexes for alto saxophone and tape

Performed by ensemble Suono Giallo
www.ensemblesuonogiallo.com

Michele Bianchini, saxophone

Recorded by David Giacchè

Mixed by Theocharis Papatrechas

The piece was performed in the context of the 5th edition of the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week.
www.ilsuonoacademy.com

Hálōs (2019) for alto saxophone and tape

"Weightlessness" for flute(s), bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Premiere: 20.11.2021, Neimënster, rainy days festival, Luxembourg
Composed for the participation at the Luxembourg Composition Academy
Performers: the United Instruments of Lucilin, Julien Leroy - conductor

"Weightlessness" for chamber ensemble is inspired by the works of Stanisław Lem and celebrates the centenary of his birth in 2021. The piece takes up the theme of weightlessness and specific thinking about the relationship between the pressures described in music - "heaviness of composed sounds" and their dispersion in the acoustic space. The composer is inspired in particular by the descriptions of space and gravitations that occurred on the surface of Venus in Stanisław Lem's book" Astronauts ", which are the subject to personal musical interpretation and reflection.

Live-recorded during the Luxembourg Composition Academy 2021, 20.11.2021.

Weightlessness (2021) for ensemble

Dedicated to Idin Samimi Mofakham.

First performance:
Lutosławski Moderni Orchestra
Błażej Wincenty Kozłowski - conductor

13.12.2013
Music Academy in Cracow, Poland

Ápeiros (2013) for chamber orchestra

Ourobóros for ensemble
Written in 2018 and revised in 2022
Premiere: 8.04.2022, Collegium Novum Zürich, Yalda Zamani – conductor
Live-recorded during the premiere

Ourobóros explores the time looping and devouring of musical material within itself, reaching to a perfect circular form. Ourobóros was written as an inspiration by the same-titled creature, described in "The Book of Imaginary Beings" by Jorge Luis Borges. It is a symbol of continuity and continuous transformation, not only of life, but also of the sound and time passing by. Those elements are bound inevitably in a fate of a composer and every person that approaches the music at the very moment. How the relation with sound and time is able to enrich and transform a person? Is it able to purify one and add something new to life? Are we ready to rebirth in Ourobóros of our world?

Ourobóros

Ourobóros (2018, rev. 2022) for ensemble

Hypnos for bass flute or tenor recorder and tape 
Written in 2018 and revised in 2020
Recording from the premiere of version for bass flute: 28.01.2023, Grusomhetens Teater, Oslo, Norway.
Alessandra Rombolá – bass flute, Martyna Kosecka - electronics, Michal Sykora – mix

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.

Hypnos(2018, rev. 2020) for bass flute and tape

Homāio
Written in 2022-2023
for Persian ney(flute), santur, percussion, string trio and electronics

Premiere: 15. Festival of Traditional and Avantgarde Music Codes
25.05.2023, Lublin, Poland
Farnaz Modarresifar – santur, [flow unit] Ewa Liebchen – flute,
Magdalena Kordylasińska – percussion, Anna Kwiatkowska – violin,
Mikołaj Pałosz – cello, Paweł Czarny – viola, Idin Samimi Mofakham - electronics, Martyna Kosecka - conductor

Recording from the concert at the Museum of Asia & Pacific in Warsaw, Poland, 26.05.2023.

Program note:
Homāio stands for a legendary mythical bird from the Iranian legends and Sufi fables. It is said that it never lands and spends its entire life in flight. It flies invisibly high above the earth, impossible to detect with human eyes. If its shadow falls upon you, you will be blessed with good fortune. Moreover, the Persian modal scale homāyoun, used in traditional Iranian music, shares the same core as the word homāio - meaning happiness, joy or promise. Soaring with wings spread wide, the musical construct of the world of light and shadow is brought to life. The promise of happiness becomes the great unknown.

Homāio (2023) for ensemble and electronics

The winning piece of the 5-Minute Opera Competition at Music Biennale Zagreb - April 2015

Kochawaya (2014) chamber opera

Martyna Kosecka - Enigma I 
Daniel Costello - horn

Enigma I (2019) for horn

Plays Dawid Pliskowski

First performance
Music Academy in Krakow, Poland
3.12.2010

Znikomek (2010) for alto saxophone

Performed by Glyptos Ensemble - https://www.facebook.com/glyptosensemble
(including: flute, oboe, alto saxophone, violin, accordion, piano)

First performance during The International Festival of Contemporary Music
24. Krakow Composers' Days of Music 
Music Academy in Krakow, Poland
31.05.2012

Love Scenes (2012) for sextet

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.

This composition is a part of the "Timbral Microperspectives" project, realized thanks to the scholarship of the Minister for Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Ruba'i (2020) for fixed media

Martyna Kosecka (*1989)
composer, conductor, performer, experimentalist, and researcher in new music. www.martynakosecka.com

Martyna Kosecka

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