Stephen Melillo
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Stephen Melillo

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Stephen Melillo is a world-renowned composer whose more than 1,480 works include five symphonies, several concerti, his most recent score for “Merry the Christmas Witch,” and over 70 hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™. His music has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations, including Holodomor and Symphony IIII: Lightfall, and the Nemmers Prize nomination in Music.

Winner of multiple Gold Global Music Awards (2022–2026), Melillo has also received honors such as the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Epic/Orchestral Music (2022), the Best Cinematic Soundtrack and Best Classical Crossover Album at the New Age Radio Music Awards 2024-26, and the LIT Award for Excerpts from the Ahab & Death to Moby Dick Love Stories.
His album STORMWORKS Chapter 89: Worlds Within the World earned dual Silver Medals for Composer and Creativity/Originality in the 2024 Global Music Awards.  This was the first album of “band music” to be recognized by the committee.
In 2026, his album “Circle of Love” scored for Poet, Cindy Paulos, won another Global Music Award for Best Musical Story.
Winner of three 2009 Telly & Ava Awards for his 2005 Visualized Concert, Kakehashi: That We Might Live, Stephen's concert-version was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music.  A fourth Telly Award was given for “Best Use of Music” in the 2019 feature film, One Little Finger, produced by Rupam Sarmah. His film work includes the Academy Award–nominated 12:01 PM and Reckoning of Darkness (2019 Scorpius and Telly Awards).

A recipient of the ASCAP Concert Award every year since 1992, Melillo’s self-publishing venture, STORMWORKS, has reached thousands worldwide purely by word of mouth.  

With 60 albums and 8 books available across major platforms—including Only for Now, Nogard & Dragon, and his acclaimed novels Ahab, a Love Story and Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story—Stephen Melillo continues to celebrate imagination, resilience, and the power of music.
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