Premiered at 5th Novalis music+art festival, Kulturni Centar Osijek, Osijek, Croatia, 9th September 2021.

Piccolo - Ana Batinica
Violoncello - Vid Veljak

divided together (2021) for piccolo and violoncello

Performed at Forum Neue Musik 2022, on 30th April 2022, at Hanns Eisler Berlin School of Music, at Studiosaal in Berlin.

Conductor: Christian Schüller

Flute: Malin Sieberns
Oboe: Jun Joonha
Clarinet: Rucheng Fan
Bassoon: Cheng-Yu Huang
Horn: Selma Louise Ringdal
Trumpets: Filip Orkisz, Jinhyoung Kim
Trombone: Raul Balinha
Percussion: Po-Yuan Huang
Piano: Jess Rucinski
Violin I: Sophie Wang
Violin II: Langyu Qin
Viola: Armando Yagüe de la Vega
Violoncello: Yong Jun Lee
Double bass: Milan Thür

Piece for Ensemble (2017-2018) for sinfonietta

Performance at Zoom+ Focus Concert, Studiosaal, "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music, Berlin, 6th February 2022.

Bass Clarinet - Venessa Klöpping
Violin - Inga Våga Gaustad
Violoncello -  Agata Sułkowska
Keyboard/Piano - Zhifeng Hu

Ballad for the Risk Class I (2021) for amp. bcl, amp. vln, amp. vcl, and keyb.

Performance by Ensemble hand werk at Izmir New Music Days III, at Ahmed Adnan Saygun Cultural Centre, Chamber Music Hall, Izmir, 24th May 2022.

Flute - Daniel Agi
Bass Clarinet - Heni Hyunjung Kim
Violin - Lola Rubio
Piano - Thibaut Surugue

Recorded by Ahmet Ozan Murat ve Kerem İnce

Ballad for the Risk Class II (2022) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, piano, and tape

"on disembodiment and resistance" for 5 amplified voices with spatial projection, live electronics, and 4-channel tape

Performance by The Present Ensemble at Mehrlicht!Musik, at Studiosaal, Berlin, 26th November 2022.

Voice 1: Hanna Herfurtner
Voice 2: Olivia Stahn
Voice 3: Amélie Saadia
Voice 4: Will Frost 
Voice 5: Mert Moralı

on disembodiment and resistance (2022) / version a

"Eisler Papers" for sinfonietta

Premiered on January 30, 2025, at "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music, at Studiosaal in Berlin by Echo Ensemble under the direction of Manuel Nawri.

Flutes: Yi-Chian Weng
Oboe: Joonha Jun
Clarinets: Wenhan Wu
Bassoons: Nur Meisler
Horn: Taekchan Jeong
Trumpet: Ji Han Yoo
Trombone: Fedir Sheiko
Tuba: I-Hsun Lee
Percussions: Jianing Li
Harp: Sophie Shen
Piano: Rodolfo Dassaev Tagle Mesta
Violin I: Hyojin Jun
Violin II: Rok Zaletel Černoš
Viola: Yumin Park
Violoncello: Jonathan Forster
Double Bass: Elisa Maria Stampe Nielsen

Conductor: Manuel Nawri

Recording: Daniel Scheer

Eisler Papers (2025)

Conductor - Musashi Baba
Flute / Piccolo / Alto Flute - Malin Sieberns
Clarinet / Bass Clarinet - Julius Engelbach
Violin - Alican Süner
Violoncello - Inhee Lee
Piano - Anda Kryeziu

Sonsuzluğa bir taş at... (Throw a stone into the eternity...) (2015)

Performance by Ensemble Dal Niente and guests, Workshop Concert, RED NOTE New Music Festival, Illinois State University, March 29, 2018.

Conductor - Michael Lewanski
Flute / Alto Flute - Laura Cocks
Clarinet / Bass Clarinet - Katie Schoepflin
Piano - Mabel Kwan
Violin - Hanna Hurwitz
Violoncello - Audrey Q. Snyder

Intratextual Recontextualisation (2017-2018) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and violoncello

Performance at Forum Neue Musik, "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music, 7th June 2019.

The photo is taken from Yılmaz Güney's film 'Umut' (Hope).

Conductor - Etienne Haan
Flute / Piccolo / Bass Flute - Malin Sieberns
Clarinet / Bass Clarinet - Takahiro Katayama
Percussion - Po-Yuan Huang
Harp - Dominika Surzyn
Piano - Oleksandr Chernyi
Violoncello - Dina Bolshakova
Contrabass - Jakub Zoń

Agitation (2018) for ensemble and tape

Performance at Neuköllner O-Töne, Genazareth Kirche, Berlin, 5th May 2019.

Soprano - Camila Mandillo
Trumpet - Xukun Tong

Die Produktion des Bewusstseins (The Production of Consciousness)(2018) for soprano and trumpet

Performance at Divertimento Ensemble International Workshop of Young Composers Concert, Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio Messina 2, Milan, July 10, 2020.

Violin - Lorenzo Gorli

The Economic Offering (2020) for violin solo

Performance by Sigma Project at MIXTUR Festival, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, September 12, 2020.

Soprano Saxophone: Andrés Gomis
Alto Saxophone: Ángel Soria
Tenor Saxophone: Alberto Chaves
Baritone Saxophone: Josetxo Silguero

Paragraph (2020) for saxophone quartet

I may die tomorrow but others will take my place (2017) miniature for tape

Mert Moralı is a Berlin-based composer from Izmir, Turkey, whose current research and artistic focus lies on prosthesis and corporeality in-relation and how this relationship is conditioned by space and particularly its socio-political connotations.

He is the recipient of first prize in the duo category at Wilde Lieder - Marx.Music Composing Competition in Trier, Germany and J.J. Strossmayer Prize at Novalis Festival in Osijek, Croatia. Also, he was a composition fellow at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Künstlerhof Schreyahn, and Villa Aurora Los Angeles.

Moralı’s works have been heard at many festivals, such as Bauhaus Festival, Festival Mixtur, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, KONTAKTE Festival, protonwerk, and Ultraschall Berlin, and performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, ensemble proton bern, georg katzer ensemble, hand werk, Hezarfen Ensemble, KNM Berlin, modern art ensemble, United Instruments of Lucilin, and many others. He attended workshops led by composers, including Mark Andre, Franck Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Francesco Filidei, Stefano Gervasoni, Liza Lim, Isabel Mundry, Sarah Nemtsov, and Marco Stroppa.

He studied composition primarily with Tolga Yayalar and Turgut Pöğün at Bilkent University in Ankara and with Eun-Hwa Cho at "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music. He also studied Electroacoustic Music at "Hanns Eisler" Berlin School of Music with Wolfgang Heiniger.

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