A world-renowned composer, winner of multiple Gold Global Music Awards in 2022-23,  a Hollywood Music in Media Award for “Best Epic/Orchestral Music” in 2022, a Best New Age Album Award in “New Age Radio Awards” for “The Grey II-III”, and a 3rd Pulitzer in Music nomination in 2024,  Stephen’s more than 1350 works include 4 symphonies, several concerti and over 45-hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™.  Stephen’s Symphony IIII, was nominated for the Pulitzer and Nemmers Prize in Music in 2015.  Winner of 3 - 2009 Telly & Ava Awards for his 2005 Visualized Concert, Kakehashi: That We Might Live, Stephen's concert version was also nominated for the Pulitzer .  A 4th Telly was given for “Best Use of Music” in the 2019 feature film, One Little Finger, produced by R. Sarmah.  A 5th Telly Award & Scorpius Award included Stephen’s work on the 2019 Reckoning of Darkness, produced by C. Kulikowski.  Stephen’s 15 feature film scores include the Academy Award-nominated 12:01 PM.   Stephen has received ASCAP Concert Awards each year since 1992.  STORMWORKS, Stephen’s pioneering, self-publishing entity, has gone from 0 to many thousands of worldwide renderings since 1992 simply by word-of-mouth.  He has 53 Albums and 9 books on varied streaming services and novels, including Only for Now, Nogard & Dragon, Ahab, a Love Story, the prequel to Melville’s Moby Dick, and most recently, the sequel, Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story.   Complete BIO https://stephenmelillo.com/bio