Mert Morali

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 received first prize in the duo category at Wilde Lieder—Marx.Music Composing Competition in Trier, Germany, and the J.J. Strossmayer Prize at Novalis Festival in Osijek, Croatia. He was also 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, Klangbrücken Festival, protonwerk, and Ultraschall Berlin, and performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, ensemble proton bern, Das Neue Ensemble, 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 Pögün 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.

He is currently a physical & aural fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude.