7 PRELÚDIOS PEREGRINOS - piano solo
CANTOS ARDENTES DE CORPOS DESQUECIDOS - organ and sax (tenor or alto)
GLITTER-SHARDS OF RAIN - for (singing) string quartet
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)
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Cristiano Melli (1980) is a Brazilian composer, dramaturgist, pianist and artistic researcher based in The Hague. His work moves between composition, dramaturgy, music theatre, performance and multimedia, often bringing together musical and theatrical ideas with historical and cultural research.
He studied composition in São Paulo with Almeida Prado, Osvaldo Lacerda and Jocy de Oliveira, and moved to the Netherlands in 2010 to study at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where he obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition. He has worked as a dramaturgist on productions including Aus LICHT (2019 - also Pedagogical Assistant at the Master aus LICHT from the Royal Conservatorium), Lohengrin in Malmö (2025) and L’Olimpiade in Stockholm (2026).
Since 2019, Melli has been part of the Artistic Research team at Studio LOOS in The Hague, where he has developed works including HERTZ (commissioned by the Physics@Veldhoven conference) , PERSEPHONE ZOOMED, WHICH SONGS ARE THESE? and EROLA IS TRIPPING IN STUDIO 54.
His music has been published by Donemus since 2025.
Recent premieres include GLITTER-SHARDS OF RAIN, commissioned by The Rhythm Method and premiered in New York; CANTOS ARDENTES DE CORPOS DESQUECIDOS, commissioned by Ola Rokkones; and A Little Mass for trombone ensemble and French horns, commissioned for the 200th anniversary of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. Previous commissions include INTERMEZZO - FOR THE LIFE OF A STREET MOSQUITO for the Lucerne Festival's Forward Festival (2022).
Supported by the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin and Instituto Guimarães Rosa, his research on the relation between Wagner and Brazil has included archival work in Bayreuth and a 2026 lecture-concert at Steingraeber as part of the celebrations of 150 years of the Bayreuth Festival, with the world premiere of 7 PRELÚDIOS PEREGRINOS for piano.
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