Raffaele Marcellino

Raffaele Marcellino (born 1964) is an Australian composer.

Raffaele Marcellino graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with merit in 1985.

His teachers included Richard Vella, Richard Toop, Gillian Whitehead, Martin Wesley-Smith and.

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's collection of short stories, was performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dobbs Franks.

Raffaele collaborated with the Seymour Group, an Australian new music ensemble, with music directors Anthony Fogg, then Mark Summerbell.

The result of these collaborations were the ensemble works Whispers of Fauvel (1988), The Lottery in Babylon (1995) and Maze 1998.

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 Schools performances; and Mrs Macquarie's Cello (2004), for broadcast on ABC Radio and live performance with texts from Donna Abela and Lisa Morrisett.

In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music where he served as director from 1996 to 1998 and resumed teaching duties in 1999.

In 1999 Arts Tasmania 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.

In 2000 Raffaele partnered with Greg White and the Seymour Group to create Sonic Bach (2000) for ABC Classic FM'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, Opus House Press, Red House Editions, Grevillea Press and ABC Classics/Universal Music.

Chamber ensemble and solo works

Choral and vocal

Orchestra and large ensemble

Opera, theatre and broadcast

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 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.

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 in Melbourne.

After establishing Collarts as a degree-granting institution he was appointed Dean of Macleay College 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 Oxfordin the UK.

In 2017 Raffaele returned to Sydney to take up the role of Provost for the Navitas Careers and Industry Division.

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).