Please download and use a 300 DPI version of this photo for your program: Jack Aldrich, Survivor of Bataan Death March and much more, with Stephen Melillo on 04.04.04, the premiere of THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. No Man is a photograph unto himself. (See Mark Camphouse Article, Book 3.) For a brief History of STORMWORKS, please see LAST WORLD STANDING's Score Notes.



Please download and use a 180 DPI version of this photo for your program, and please
do not edit Jack away. I do not stand alone and the Music I write is for others.

Below, Stanley Woody, Norman "Jack" Matthews, David "Top" Topping, Survivors of Bataan Death March and much more, and Dame Mary Sigillo Baracco, ex-POW and Belgium Resistance Fighter with Stephen Melillo on 12.03.08. Please do NOT edit these people out in an attempt to get a "head shot". No Man is a photograph unto himself. I stand with and by and because of these People, and the Music reflects it. (See Mark Camphouse Article, Book 3.) For a brief but informative History of STORMWORKS, please see LAST WORLD STANDING's Score Notes.

BIO / STEPHEN MELILLO
Susan Corrotto Lieux

Music by Stephen Melillo has been played and recorded by some of the World’s finest ensembles and conductors. More than 1020 works span from the IBM Thinkpad® Demo to the Concerto for Violin & Orchestra. Currently 139 commissions for Wind & Percussion Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™ comprise the body of recorded work called STORMWORKS.

Since 1995, ASCAP continues each year to recognize Stephen’s work with Special Awards in Concert Music. In 2005, his Documentary in Music, KAKEHASHI: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE was nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in Music. Marking 60 years since the end of WW II, this 70-minute work involved an unprecedented gesture in music-making and made International History. Inspired by and dedicated to the Survivors of the Bataan Death March, Kakehashi was recorded by an ensemble of 2 American Choruses and 143 world-class Japanese Military Musicians specially appointed for this historic occasion by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. In 2006, The World Historic recording, STORMWORKS Chapter 5:8, Writings on the Wall, was nominated in 4 categories in the 1st round of the 49th Grammy Awards. In 2008, the “visually scored”, DVD version of THAT WE MIGHT LIVE was nominated in the 50th Grammy Awards in the Long Form Documentary caption, and won 2 Telly Film Awards for History/Biography and Music Concert.

In 1992, Stephen’s innovation in self-publishing and digital music dissemination, known as STORMWORKS, established a modern precedent in international Music publishing. STORMWORKS is now represented online and via store dealerships in the United States and throughout 28 European and Asian countries.

You will find Stephen’s scoring work in 14 feature films 28 network television programs and in the 1991 Academy Award-nominated movie 12:01PM starring Kurtwood Smith. In the early 1990’s Stephen composed game music for Nintendo, Sega-Genesis and others through his affiliation with Absolute Entertainment. His work in this field, presented at the 1993 NAMM convention positioned him as a pioneer for a complete new generation of “film-scoring” approaches to game-music.

During the scoring of 12:01PM, Stephen authored and implemented Music To Picture, a hands-on curriculum establishing, in 1991, the film-scoring program at the State University of New York at Purchase.

The 1992 premiere of Stephen Melillo’s S-MATRIX Symphony # Numberless, conducted by Maestro Gerhardt Zimmerman with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, received the first standing ovation in the 40-year History of the Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh. During intermission, a delighted Maestro Zimmerman commissioned Stephen’s Symphony 2: At Life's Edge, which premiered in 1996.

As creator of MIDIMAST, (MIDI-Music, Mathematics & Science) sponsored by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations and the New York Academy of Science in the early 1980s, Mr. Melillo trained 275 New York City Mathematics and Science teachers while demonstrating a quantifiably improved understanding of mathematics and science via musical composition. Case studies included numerous classes with K-6 students from Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens.

His scoring techniques, orchestration, recording practices and implementation of new sonic forces in the modern Wind Ensemble have been the subject of several Doctoral dissertations in America, Europe and the Orient. Many of the World’s finest ensembles and conductors continue to employ his innovative strategies and instrumentation.

Many of Stephen’s students now enjoy musical careers as professionals in an eclectic range, employed as teachers, recording artists, television and studio musicians and members of major symphony orchestras.

With 17 years in the public schools, more than 30 years as an international guest conductor, and more than 40 years as a practitioner of the Chinese martial art, Stephen’s ability to communicate musically comes from an extensive knowledge base. From beginning instrumental students to Musicians employed by the Rotterdam and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Stephen has worked with a vast array of multinational students aged 4-87. Such diverse experience includes teaching Braille-reading music students at Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts to teaching close-quarter defense techniques to an 11-man detachment of Green Berets stationed in Mansfield, Connecticut during the late 1970s.

Stephen studied conducting with Jens Nygaard and Atilio Poto, a student of Arturo Toscanini. Varied educators, conductors and commissioning parties have termed Stephen Melillo’s work "a new voice in the direction of music.”

In addition to film work with New York and Los Angeles based studio orchestras, 114 live concert premieres include:

Last World Standing: HEROES of PEACE, rendered by the Sinfonischen Blasorcehesters Ried in the Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria. Karl Geroldinger & Stephen Melillo conducting.