Cristiano MelliBorn in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in 1980, Cristiano Melli studied in São Paulo with composers Almeida Prado, Osvaldo Lacerda and Jocy de Oliveira. His piano teachers were Julio Cesar Figueredo, Carlos Yansen, Sônia Muniz, as well as piano accompaniment and singing with Hermínia Russo. In 2005 and 2007 he was awarded scholarships at the International Music Festival of Campos do Jordão, as well as the Curitiba Music Festival (2003), International Workshop for Young Composers (Maszalasca, Latvia, 2008), Rio de Janeiro’s Biennale of Contemporary Music (2010), among others.
In 2010, he moved to The Netherlands, getting his Bachelor and Master degrees in Composition from The Royal Conservatorium of The Hague, in 2014 and 2016 respectively. There he studied with Yannis Kyriakides, Calliope Tsoupaki, Cornelis de Bondt, Gilius van Bergeijk and Peter Adriaansz, as well as Masterclasses with Christian Wolff, Antoine Beuger and Hans Abrahamsen. His natural inclination to multimediatic and interdisciplinary works naturally led to a deep dive into Stockhausen’s LICHT cycle, focusing his Master thesis (coached by Kathinka Pasveer and Peter Adriaansz) in its relation between dramaturgy and musical material, later taking part as Pedagogic Advisor and Assistant to the Dramaturgy team in the award-wining Aus LICHT production (a joint production from the Royal Conservatorium, Dutch National Opera and Holland Festival). He has works published by Periferia Music (Barcelona) and the Municipality of The Hague (with the Carillon Foundation The Hague), as well as articles for the Dutch National Opera magazine and the first catalogue of Almeida Prado’s works. His music has been selected to several Festivals and workshops, both in Brazil and Europe, as well as being performed in Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Germany and Israel. Since 2019 Mr Melli is part of the Senior Researcher Artistic team of Studio LOOS in The Hague, which assisted and housed his productions HERTZ (commissioned by the Dutch Research Concil - NOW - as part of the Physics @ Veldhoven 2020 conference), PERSEPHONE ZOOMED (with renowned documentarist Frank Scheffer, and performed by Peter van Bergen, Christina Schönbach and Elisabeth Lusche), the portrait concert WHICH SONGS ARE THESE?, and the musical compositions EROLA's SYMPHONIES HAVE DIFFERENT REMAINDERS WHEN DIVIDED BY A THIRD NUMBER, and EROLA IS TRIPPING IN STUDIO 54. These productions were made possible through a Makersregeling subsidy from the Municipality of The Hague. His multimediatic piece QUEENS (composed with a Fonds Podiumkunst Werkbijdrage) is in production stage for première in Studio LOOS. Still in 2022, he had a piece premiered at the Concert in celebration of 200 years of Brazil's Independence (in the Carillon of the Grote Kerk in The Hague). From the Forward Festival of the Lucerne Festival, in Switzerland, he received a comission to compose "INTERMEZZO - for the life of a street mosquito", premiered in November 20th at the closing concert of the Festival. For 2023 a new production has been commissioned by Stichting Carillon Den Haag: the first scene of LEENDERT (with support of Societé Gavignès) for Carillon and 5 trombones. |
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