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

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

Mert Morali