Stephen L.  Melillo has scored many projects for Tom Walsh at both TW3 Entertainment and EnterAktion Studios including the animated motion picture, “Dwegons & Leprechauns.”

In 2024, world-renowned composer Stephen Melillo received a 3rd Pulitzer Prize in Music nomination for “Holodomor,” won “Best Cinematic Soundtrack” in New Age Radio Music Awards, and the LIT Songwriting-Audio-Music-Book Narration & Score Award for his “Excerpts from the Ahab & Death to Moby Dick Love Stories”.  His latest and 53rd album, STORMWORKS Chapter 89: Worlds Within the World, was awarded two Silver-Outstanding Achievement Medals in the 2024 Global Music Awards for Composer & Creativity/Originality.

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 Music Awards” for “The Grey II-III”, Stephen’s more than 1370 works include 5 symphonies, several concerti and over 48-hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™.  Stephen’s Symphony IIII: Lightfall, was nominated for the Pulitzer and Nemmers Prize in Music in 2015.  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.  A fifth Telly Award and Scorpius Award included Stephen’s work on the 2019 Reckoning of Darkness, produced by Christopher Kulikowski.  Stephen’s 15 feature film scores include the Academy Award-nominated 12:01 PM.

Stephen has been a recipient of the 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 54 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 the sequel, Death to Moby Dick, a Love Story.  

AWARDS INCLUDE:

• Two Silver-Outstanding Achievement Medals in the 2024 Global Music Awards for Composer & Creativity/Originality.
• Pulitzer Prize in Music Nomination for “Holodomor” in 2024.
• Winner: Best Cinematic Soundtrack in New Age Radio Music Awards
• Winner:  LIT Songwriting-Audio-Music-Book Narration & Score
• Best New Age Album in “New Age Radio Music Awards” (for The Grey II-III) in 2023.
• Three Gold Global Music Awards (for Love Conquers All, and the Grey II-III) in 2022.
• Hollywood Music in Media Award for “Best Epic/Orchestral” (for Love Conquers All) in 2022.
• Telly Award for “Best Use of Music” (for One Little Finger, produced by Rupam Sarmah) in 2019.
• Telly Award for “Best Music” (for Reckoning of Darkness, produced by Christopher Kulikowski) in 2019. 
• Scorpius Award “Best Music” (for Reckoning of Darkness, produced by Christopher Kulikowski) in 2019.
• Pulitzer Prize in Music Nomination (for SYMPHONY IIII: Lightfall) in 2015.
• Nemmers Prize in Music Nomination (for SYMPHONY IIII: Lightfall) in 2015.
• Three Telly Awards in Biography, History & Music (for Kakehashi: That We Might Live) in 2009.
• Gold AVA Award (for Kakehashi: That We Might Live) in 2009.
• Pulitzer Prize in Music Nomination (for Kakehashi: That We Might Live) in 2009.
• Stephen’s 15 feature film scores include the Academy Award-nominated 12:01 PM.