Raffaele Marcellino

Raffaele Marcellino (born 1964) is an Australian composer.

Life

Raffaele Marcellino graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with merit in 1985. His teachers included Richard Vella, Richard Toop, Gillian Whitehead and Božidar Kos. In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music where he served as Director from 1996–1998 and resumed normal teaching duties in 1999. In 1999 Arts Tasmania funded project the Mountain Orchestra Project, a community arts project with Marcellino was composer and music director and Strato Anagnostis, instrument maker and performer. The Mountain Orchestra was made up of community members who constructed instruments from found objects and other materials and then performed newly composed in a concert on Mt Wellington in Hobart. During his time in Tasmania also served on the Board of the Inaugural '10 Days on the Island Festival' and 'Zootango'.

At the end of 2001 he left the University of Tasmania and returned to Sydney to pursue a freelance career and sessional teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 2003 Marcellino was Composer-in-Residence with eminent Australian vocal ensemble the Song Company, who had previously commissioned several pieces from him. This residency culminated in the choral cycle The O Antiphons and released on CD, widely performed and broadcast. From 2003 until 2009 Marcellino was the Principal of the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney. In 2010 he became Foundation Dean of the Australian College of the Arts Collarts[1] in Melbourne. After establishing Collarts as a degree granting institution he was appointed Dean of Macleay College[2] in Sydney in 2011. In 2013 he was appointed Director of Academic and Student Services for SAE Australia. Recent creative collaborations have included prominent Australian artists including Greg White (composer), Robert Jarman(actor and theatre maker), Anna Messariti (producer and theatre maker), The Song Company, Sirens Ensemble, Tom O'Kelly (percussionist), Michael Bates (filmmaker) and Jordie Albiston (poet).

  1. http://www.collarts.edu.au
  2. http://www.macleay.edu.au

Works

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Marcellino's music has been published by Reed Music, Currency Press, Opus House Press, Red House Editions, Grevillea Press and ABC Classics.

Awards

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