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

Drawing The Sun <excerpt>

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 composer in residence at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in Germany.

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, Stefano Gervasoni, Liza Lim, Isabel Mundry, 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.

divided together (2021) for piccolo and violoncello

Mert Morali