Stephen Melillo, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, won "Best Cinematic Soundtrack" at the New Age Radio Music Awards and the LIT Songwriting-Audio-Music-Book Narration & Score Award. His career boasts numerous international awards and over 1,360 compositions, including four symphonies and 45 hours of music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™.
In 2024, I, Stephen Melillo, received a third Pulitzer Prize in Music nomination for "Holodomor," won "Best Cinematic Soundtrack" at the New Age Radio Music Awards, and earned the LIT Songwriting-Audio-Music-Book Narration & Score Award for "Excerpts from the Ahab & Death to Moby Dick Love Stories."
My career is distinguished by numerous international music awards and a vast portfolio of over 1,360 compositions, including four symphonies, several concerti, and more than 45 hours of music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™. My Symphony IIII: Lightfall was nominated for prestigious music awards, showcasing my dedication to the craft.
In 2009, I won an award for my 2005 Visualized Concert, Kakehashi: That We Might Live, which was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 2019, I received accolades for my work on the feature film One Little Finger, produced by Rupam Sarmah, and for my contributions to Reckoning of Darkness, produced by Christopher Kulikowski. My 15 feature film scores include the Academy Award-nominated.
Through STORMWORKS, my self-publishing entity, I have achieved widespread recognition with thousands of worldwide renderings purely through word-of-mouth. I have 53 albums and nine books available on various streaming services, along with novels such as Only for Now, Nogard & Dragon, Ahab, a Love Story, and its sequel, Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story. Additionally, I serve as an Honorary Board Member of the Kampot Cultural Development Institute of Cambodia (KCDI).
There are way too many! Sharing just one, I discovered Gustav Mahler’s Music at age 16. I sat in a car by the water's edge and listened to one 20-minute excerpt from the 10th Symphony 100 times in succession. Each time, the Music was “new,” the plunge into the Soul, deeper.
In 2005, 30 years later and en route to Japan to record the Chapter 5:8 World History-making CD Set, “Writings on the Wall,” I did the calculation and yes, I had listened to Mahler for 33.333 uninterrupted hours. It was a chilling moment to discover that fact a Lifetime later while on a plane over the Pacific.
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Stephen Melillo, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, won "Best Cinematic Soundtrack" at the New Age Radio Music Awards and the LIT Songwriting-Audio-Music-Book Narration & Score Award. His career boasts numerous international awards and over 1,360 compositions, including four symphonies and 45 hours of music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™.
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