ENTRADA - I LIV'D AS BEFORE - for carillon, 18 trombones and 2 trumpets
INTERMEZZO for the life of a street mosquito - for violin, cello, bass clarinet, percussion and fixed media (2022) commissioned by Forward Festival of the Lucerne Festival
Memorial para o Franco Coração Presente da Marielle - for Carillon (2022)
EROLA's SYMPHONIES are a set of vectors which may be added together and multiplied by scalars (2021) - for piano, clarinet, violin, cello and fixed media
EROLA IS TRIPPING IN STUDIO 54 (2021) - for clarinet and fixed media
3 CANTOS DE AR (Mário de Andrade) - 1: Esse Homem; 2: Girassol da Madrugada V; 3: Eu sou trezentos - for voice and piano
SERAFIM PONTE PEQUENA (text: Oswald de Andrade) 1 - Da Adolescência; 2 - Vacina Obrigatória; 3 - Folhinha Conjugal - for voice and piano
WHICH WOR(L)DS ARE THESE? - for female voice, piano, viola (2012, revision 2021)
Born 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 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). Currently, he is a senior researcher at Studio LOOS, in Den Haag.
Picture: Marijn Goes