A native of Stafford, Virginia, Melika M. Fitzhugh (A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe, M.M. Longy School of Music of Bard College) studied conducting and composition with Thomas G. Everett,Beverly Taylor, James Yannatos, Julian Pellicano, Roger Marsh, Jeff Stadelman, and, most recently, John Howell Morrison and Osnat Netzer. Mel's compositions have been performed internationally by the PHACE Ensemble (Austria), Quarteto Larianna (Brazil), the Brouwer Trio(Spain), Sarah Jeffery (Nederland, Sweden), Sylvia Hinz (Germany), the Radcliffe ChoralSociety (US), Berit Strong (US), John Tyson (US), Miyuki Tsurutani (Japan/US), and Aldo Abreu (Venezuela/US).Mel wasa 2021Bang on a Can Fellow,the 2020 winner ofthe PatsyLu Prize for IAWM’sSearch for New Music, the 2014 winner of the Longy orchestral composition competition, and has performed with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Coro Allegro, the Harvard Wind Ensemble, the Village Circle Band, and WACSAC. The artist, who has composed music for film and stage,was a member of Just In Time Composers and Players and is currently a member of world/early music ensembles Quilisma Consort andUrban Myth, in addition to playing bass guitar with symphonic metal/progressive band Illusion’s End, the ambient rock band RoseCabal and the Balkan folk dance bandBalkan Fields.
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