
Raffaele Marcellino (born 1964) is an Australian composer.
Education
Raffaele Marcellino graduated from the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
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with merit in 1985. His teachers included Richard Vella,
Richard Toop,
Gillian Whitehead
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Early life
Whitehead was born in Hamilton in 1941 ...
,
Martin Wesley-Smith
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and .
Career
In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
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where he served as director from 1996 to 1998 and resumed teaching duties in 1999. In 1999
Arts Tasmania
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funded the
Mountain Orchestra Project, a community arts project with Marcellino as composer and music director, and Strato Anagnostis as 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 works in a concert on
Mt Wellington in Hobart. During his time in Tasmania Marcellino 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
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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 directed by
Roland Peelman, who had previously commissioned several works. This residency culminated in the choral cycle ''The O Antiphons'' and was released on CD, widely performed and broadcast. Other collaborations with the Song Company resulted in ''Via Dolorosa'' (1994), a collaborative work with artist Mark Titmarsh performed at the Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art with other artist-composer collaborations; ''FishTale'' (1995), concert work for voices; ''Sprung!'' (2000), for
Musica Viva
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History
Music Viva was founded in Sydney in 1945 by Romanian-born Vienna-educated violinist Richard Goldner, who had fled Naz ...
Schools performances; and ''Mrs Macquarie's Cello'' (2004), for broadcast on ABC Radio and live performance with texts from Donna Abela and Lisa Morrisett.
From 2003 until 2009 Marcellino was the Principal of the
Australian Institute of Music
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Founded in 1968, AIM delivers education for careers in the Australian music, enter ...
in Sydney. In 2010 he became Foundation Dean of the Australian College of the Arts
Collarts in Melbourne. After establishing Collarts as a degree-granting institution he was appointed Dean of
Macleay College
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in Sydney in 2011. In 2013 he was appointed Director of Academic and Student Services for SAE Australia. In 2015 Raffaele was appointed Chief Academic Officer for SAE Global based in
Oxford
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in the UK. In 2017 Raffaele returned to Sydney to take up the role of Provost for the Navitas Careers and Industry Division. In 2022, Raffaele was appointed Executive Director, Education and Skills, Sydney Region at TAFE NSW.
Creative collaborations have included prominent Australian artists including Greg White (composer),
Robert Jarman (actor and theatre-maker), Jenny Duck-Chong (singer and music presenter), Anna Messariti (producer and theatre maker), The Song Company, Sirens Ensemble, Tom O'Kelly (percussionist), Michael Bates (filmmaker) and
Jordie Albiston (poet).
Among his early public performances are ''Incunabula'' (1985) performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Thomas and ''Masquerade'' commissioned and premiered by the
Windbags Wind Quintet (1986) led by
Sue Newsome. ''Antipodes'' (1987), an orchestral work inspired by
David Malouf
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's collection of short stories, was performed by the
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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History
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestr ...
conducted by Dobbs Franks.
Collaborations and publications
Raffaele collaborated with the
Seymour Group, an Australian new music ensemble, with music directors
Anthony Fogg
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, then Mark Summerbell. The result of these collaborations were the ensemble works ''Whispers of Fauvel'' (1988), ''The Lottery in Babylon'' (1995) and ''Maze'' 1998. In 2000 Raffaele partnered with Greg White and the Seymour Group to create ''Sonic Bach'' (2000) for
ABC Classic FM
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's ''The Listening Room'' produced by Andrew McLennan. ''Sonic Bach'' was produced for radio broadcast and also performed as a live show at the New Theatre (Newtown, NSW) and the Performance Space (when it was located at Cleveland St Redfern).
Marcellino's music has been published by Reed Music,
Currency Press
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H ...
, Opus House Press, Red House Editions, Grevillea Press and ABC Classics/Universal Music.
Selected works
Chamber ensemble and solo works
*''The Lottery in Babylon'' - performed by
The Seymour Group
*''Zerfliesse mein Herze'' – performed by
Ian Munro,
Christian Wojtowicz
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,
Tom O'Kelly
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and
David Malone and featured in ''
A Fork in the Road'' episode featuring Tasmania
*''Q'' – performed by
David Malone at the
Darwin International Guitar Festival
*''The Dædalus Sequences'' – cycle for solo piano, performed by
Ian Munro in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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.
*''The Pluperfect Square Dances'' – performed by
Tom O'Kelly
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* ''Tom'' (1973 film), or ''The Bad Bunch'', a blaxploitation film
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in
Kunazawa, Japan.
*''The Art of Perception'' – performed by the
Australia Ensemble
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The group was founded in 1980 as the University of New South Wales Ensemble after a proposal put to the University of New South Wales by musicologist Roger Covell and ...
at the International Music and Psychology Conference, Sydney
*''Clarion Call'', – a site specific work for the
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
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.
*''Prelude and Blues'' performed by
Rachel Scott
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cello and
Anthony Schulz accordion as part of
Bach in the Dark series.
Choral and vocal
*''O Antiphons'' performed and recorded by the
Song Company and directed by
Roland Peelman
*''Responsorio'' – for SATB choir; premiered in Sydney by
The Contemporary Singers in 1988 , also performed by the
Sydney Chamber Choir.
*''FishTale'' – for chamber choir, performed by
The Song Company.
*''Logos'' – for choir and digital delay, performed by
Sydney Chamber Choir.
*''Canticle'' – for singers, actors and large ensemble premiered at the
Brisbane Cathedrals Festival.
*''Sprung!'' – performed by The
Song Company.
*''Ein Psalm Davids'' – SATB choir and solo violin, performed by the Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir and Rachael Beesley as part of the Immortal Bach series at the Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Centre Ultimo.
*''A Strange Kind of Paradise'' with texts by
Jordie Albiston performed by Sirens Ensemble recording released on Halcyon's Waves III
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Orchestra and large ensemble
*''The Art of Resonance'' – tuba concerto, commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for Steve Rosse and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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conducted by Marin Alsop
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.
*''On Eagles Wings'' – at the International Tuba Conference University of Minnesota
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*''Iniquitous Symmetries'' – performed by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne directed by Lorraine Vaillancourt as part of UNESCO Forum93 in Montreal.
*''Maze for 15 musicians'' – performed by Ensemble Modern
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during the International Society of Contemporary Music 2000 World Music Days in Luxembourg.
*''The Art of Memory'' – performed by Marina Phillips and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
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at the City Recital Hall, Sydney
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.
*''L'arte di volare'' – performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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History
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directed by Christian Wojtowicz
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*''Corbaccio'' for orchestra and ''Corbaccio III'' for three concertante trombones and orchestra performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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conducted by David Porcelijn
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David Porcelijn studied flute, composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. He also studied the baroque flute, specialising i ...
.
*''On the Passing of Time'' for mixed concertante ensemble and orchestra performed by Simone de Haan, Christian Wojtowicz and Daryll Pratt and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Porcelijn.
Opera, theatre and broadcast
*''Don Juan'' – with Greg White; performed by The Sydney Front
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at Performance Space, Sydney and released on CD featuring Annette Tesoriero.
*''Thirst'' – with Greg White at the Australian Museum
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for director Yaron Lifschitz and designer Genevieve Blanchett
*''Remedy'' – an opera in one act; libretto by Marguerite Bunce.
*''Voicejam and Video'' – at the Adelaide Festival
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*''Musica Viva'' – performed by Tom O'Kelly
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* ''Tom'' (2002 film) ...
(Percussion) in Japan.
*''Bach: a sonic exhibition'' – co-curated with Greg White, performed by the Seymour Group.
*''Heart of Fire''; commissioned by ABC Sport
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as the theme for the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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; released as a CD single on ABC Classics.
*''The Flight of Les Darcy'' – an opera, premiered at the ''10 Days on the Island'' festival, Hobart
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, Tasmania. Libretto by Robert Jarman.
*''Midnite'' – with libretto by Doug MacLeod, based on the book by Randolph Stow, performed by the Australian Opera
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at Melbourne Festival
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, musical director Richard Gill.
*''Mrs Macquarie's Cello'' – a music theatre work for The Song Company directed by Roland Peelman and produced for broadcast by Anna Messariti.
*''Hekuba's Lament'' – voice and chamber ensemble commissioned by Much Ado Productions.
*''War is not the Season for Figs'' – voice, accordion and cello commissioned and broadcast on ABC Radio National on its Poetica program featuring the poetry of Linda Cvetkovic produced by Michael Bates.
Awards
* Music Fellowship awarded by the Music Board of the Australia Council
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The council was announ ...
(April 2003)
* Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize (1999), First Prize for ''Canticle''
* Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize (1997), Highly Commended for ''FishTale''
References
External links
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Profile
Australian Music Centre
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Australian male composers
Australian composers
1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)