http://www.aristeamellos.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2022-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1570794606054-KWBNI6GC2VR7GIM82L39/Aristea+Mellos_Composer_LAlmeida-14.jpg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1570794606054-KWBNI6GC2VR7GIM82L39/Aristea+Mellos_Composer_LAlmeida-14.jpg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1668854900496-H5FEEP35RKS9SGL6NEEE/9167__NIA3227.jpg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1668854809848-43S44Z94K8FKYIQPZISW/9176__NIA3235.jpg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1443337947133-D6HFPKHP7JTSBOCCD2KP/image-asset.jpeg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1443338038921-LKPXN62GO6J9NB34VNAF/image-asset.jpeg photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1443338168880-H354PTE8XJG6GLXLWC9Z/VU0C2245.JPG photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1456101499853-XZWZ4MAUHZYVT8O9J54B/image-asset.jpeg photos - The Ritsos Project Samos Shoot - August 2015 Photo by Alek Lindus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1456102459889-5S86UAXTTN2QALIXZ7OI/image-asset.jpeg photos - The Ritsos Project - Samos Shoot With pianist Yoshiko Arahata (red), and photographer Alek Lindus (background) in Karlovasi, Samos, Greece. Photo by Arda Cabagolu, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1456102742482-T7OASGGQUVSXSW6ZR8FG/image-asset.jpeg photos - The Ritsos Project Samos Shoot - August 2015 Photo by Alek Lindus, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1485469974544-28GP4FGYRQ9CV56GRS4Y/DSC_1121.jpg photos - The Ritsos Project with Ozdemir Ince, 2016 Photo by Ioannis Mbarapas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1512269973369-FCW98JN1IDHQX07DIN8Q/23559709_532569330412135_1335513913507256245_n.jpg photos - Sonata Project: November 11, 2017 L - R: artist Lara Merrett, composer Aristea Mellos, and the Markandu family. http://www.aristeamellos.com/preludesduets daily 0.75 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674729882301-4UNFS8MKGUEPPDR96AAW/image-asset.jpg preludes & duets - Prelude X 'Djoko's Lullaby' Pianist Stephanie McCallum performs Prelude X "Go to sleep my beloved" (Djoko's Lullaby), 2022 by Aristea Mellos. The full album “Preludes & Duets” is available from ABC Classic from November 25, 2022. Audio: Josinaldo Costa. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674729882301-4UNFS8MKGUEPPDR96AAW/image-asset.jpg preludes & duets - Prelude X 'Djoko's Lullaby' Pianist Stephanie McCallum performs Prelude X "Go to sleep my beloved" (Djoko's Lullaby), 2022 by Aristea Mellos. The full album “Preludes & Duets” is available from ABC Classic from November 25, 2022. Audio: Josinaldo Costa. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777355458-44X8TFL85GX0V16QX5PN/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Prelude VII "The magpies call you Jack and whistle..." Pianist Stephanie McCallum performs Prelude VII "The birds you call you Jack...", 2022 by Aristea Mellos. Prelude VII celebrates Australia’s wonderful native birdlife. During the pandemic, I was lucky to have a regular magpie friend come and visit each afternoon. His sonorous song sounded very much like the opening few notes of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, and he was nicknamed the ‘Eroica’ bird. Prelude VII opens with several different bird calls – their bright metallic warbles taking inspiration from the oiseaux music of the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). Plodding rhythms interrupt the flow of the avian sounds – recalling hiking boots on dry soil. The ‘Eroica’ bird cries out before flying away, taking his song with him. Recorded July 1 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777096444-67F14FLWLWYIMZF580ZN/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Prelude VI "Me cansé me vivir me caso" Pianist Stephanie McCallum performs Prelude VI "Me cansé de vivir me caso" (I'm tired of living so I'm getting married), 2022 by Aristea Mellos. Prelude VI is a travel reminiscence from a road trip I took to the south of Spain in 2016. Some colleagues of mine from the Eastman School of Music had told me about a late-night flamenco bar in the Jewish quarter of Seville named the “Casa Anselma". The night I turned up at the bar, there were two young Spanish brides-to-be celebrating their impending marriages. One bride was wearing a sash that said: “Me cansé de vivir me caso”. Not speaking Spanish, I didn’t understand how humorous the sash was until my husband translated it for me as: “I’m tired of living so I’m getting married.” The house musicians at the bar spotted the brides and invited them to the front to dance. What ensued was something completely mesmerizing, as the two young women danced off, accompanied by the rather raucous and frenetic flamenco musicians. Sadly, the “Casa”, which had long been something of an institution in Seville, closed permanently in 2020 – another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recorded July 1 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674730414229-SBQ5L6V6CIYTCSZDJEWK/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Immigrant Suite, Mvt I: The S.S. Goya, May 1951 Pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard perform The Immigrant Suite (2022) by Aristea Mellos. Mvt I: The S.S. Goya, May 1951 In March 1951, my 21-year-old grandmother boarded the S.S. Goya in Athens, travelling for almost two months before arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on May 1st. Undertaking this journey forever altered the course of her life – separating her from her family, her language, and her country of birth. In her old age, she can clearly recall this fateful journey, telling me that for almost two months she went hungry, nauseated by the smell of the boat’s kitchen. “I survived on oranges that were given to me by refugees from Constantinople, and bananas from Cairo.” The work opens and closes with momentous chords that reference the spirit of Antonín Dvořák’s 9th Symphony (“From the New World”). Feelings of trepidation and excitement intermingle before dissolving into a playful interlude. Recorded September 26 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674731242035-F07Z1BW3A8S6PPF81WDJ/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Immigrant Suite, Mvt II: Six O'Clock Swill Pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard perform The Immigrant Suite (2022) by Aristea Mellos. Mvt II: Six O'Clock Swill After disembarking from the S.S. Goya, my grandmother was sent to the Pahiatua refugee camp, where she and the other new arrivals underwent a program of cultural assimilation. After several weeks in Pahiatua, she was relocated to Palmerston North to work as a seamstress. In 1951, Palmerston North was a small town on the North Island – a world away from cosmopolitan Athens. As she surveyed the main street and watched men tumble out of the pubs at 6pm, she asked: “Where are the cafés?” A drunken Tarantella opens the work before being supplanted by a lopsided Tango. The prima ‘Tango’ melody quotes the opening wind solos from Gustav Mahler’s ‘Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from 'Das Lied von der Erde’. The tipsy opening melody returns, only to stumble, and eventually tumble down. Recorded September 26 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674731471253-7D45GVEIJAV5YYDCM4EC/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Immigrant Suite, Mvt III: Short Ride on a Sewing Machine Pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard perform The Immigrant Suite (2022) by Aristea Mellos. Mvt III: Short Ride on a Sewing Machine For thirty years, my grandmother worked as a seamstress for the flagship David Jones store on Elizabeth Street in Sydney. She was part of an in-house staff that specialised in alterations for the menswear department. After her retirement, she continued sewing at home, making and altering clothes for the entire family. I fondly remember the perpetual pulse of her sewing machine, and the sound of its mechanical chugging drives this movement. The seconda part opens with an endless series of motoric quavers which the prima line skips above in a sequence of cross-hand melodies. The work’s title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the American composer John Adams’ orchestral work ‘Short Ride in a Fast Machine’, and the movement pays homage to his particular brand of American Minimalism. Recorded September 26 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1679046300329-TTZKK71G1VVLPOOJT4OT/9095__NIA3118.jpg preludes & duets - Aristea Mellos: Immigrant Suite: IV. The Villa Mimosa Pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard perform The Immigrant Suite (2022) by Aristea Mellos. Mvt IV: The Villa Mimosa In a moment of inspired madness, my grandmother took her life’s savings after retirement, and bought a crumbling neoclassical villa in Karlovassi, Samos Island (where she was born). Upon its purchase, the house resembled a ruin. Over two decades, my grandmother worked to restore the home and to tame its garden, and it became a base of sorts for my extended family who would travel to Greece to visit. The old villa was originally owned by a sea captain, and it lies just a few metres away from the north facing, windswept shore. In composing this piece, I strove to revisit my childhood memories of the house: the sparkling play of light on the salty Aegean Sea, the sound of the “Meltemia" winds blowing the heavy shutters, and of water being dragged through the pebbles on the shore. The work quotes fragments of the “nisiotika” (or island song) ‘Thalassaki Mou’. The repeating lyrics “My darling sea/Bring my bird back to me” are particularly poignant, as they reminded me of the migratory journey my grandmother made annually, back to her island home. A hammered dulcimer (known in Greece as a Santouri) is referenced in the prima part, whilst the seconda part represents the ever-shifting sea. Recorded September 26 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674731984682-00RFT7MVVS46GZTIWKI6/image-asset.jpeg preludes & duets - Immigrant Suite, Mvt V: Murmurs of the Heart Pianists Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard perform The Immigrant Suite (2022) by Aristea Mellos. Mvt V: Murmurs of the Heart Several years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with a heart murmur. For so much of her life, she had convinced us all that ageing was for other people. Into her late eighties, she was still climbing trees and leaping over fences, trotting around Sydney in a pair of heels, and baking trays of delicious baklava. She was an unstoppable force of energy. Although her recent decline in health and activity at ninety-two shouldn’t come as a surprise, I have found myself grieving the loss of her invincibility. In this movement, the prima part opens with a heartbeat that sounds sporadically over the seconda’s chaconne. With each repetition of the chordal progression, the harmonic density increases, until exploding into colourful clusters, before returning to the old, arhythmic, failing heart. Recorded September 26 2022. Verbrugghen Hall, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Videography: Jeffrey Cheah Audio: Josinaldo Costa Score is available via the Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Audio recording available here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9377847--aristea-mellos-preludes-and-duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777468014-RTKYHQVRDRLAHNUTDPLG/8972__NIA2981.jpg preludes & duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777504645-QW8SUV11XXJSK3AENU9O/8982__NIA2991.jpg preludes & duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777564168-ZM0BTZ3X3PB3EGFHNL4L/8992__NIA3013.jpg preludes & duets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674777881561-MVNVL6PRLVWZNM1SH2BT/9156__NIA3204.jpg preludes & duets http://www.aristeamellos.com/other-projects daily 0.75 2023-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674778265810-Y1XX5FY58FRANVVGXTNA/image-asset.png other projects - Aristea Mellos - Everything Flowing (American Wild Ensemble) Video by Jorge Arzac from Music in the American Wild, released October 10, 2018 Full album available on Bandcamp: https://musicintheamericanwild.bandca... Everything Flowing - I. Hymn - II. Monarchs - III. Streaming Through On August 25, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the National Park Service, he established a precedent for the preservation and conservation of parts of our Earth. The power of the bill’s language, which asks that we leave designated sites “unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations” resonated not only through the United States, but throughout the world. Its sentiment is timeless, and as prescient as ever, as we grapple with the effects of climate change, and as we understand how the smallest of creatures that thrives in our parks is essential for the preservation of our own lives on this planet. Everything Flowing takes its title from a passage in John Muir’s “My First Summer in the Sierra”: “Everything is flowing – going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks...While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood...in Nature’s warm heart.” Muir reminds us that the smallest of objects is essential to the vitality of our ecosystems, and to the viability of our own lives. Everything Flowing explores these notions in three small movements. We open with a solemn hymn to the Earth, proceed to take a dizzying dance alongside the endangered monarch butterflies as they traverse the continent, and conclude with a chorale with a responsorial structure that reminds us of our interconnectedness with the natural world. Aristea Mellos Aristea Mellos is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music with a passion for chamber music and art song. She is a recipient of grants from the Presser Foundation, the Earle Brown Foundation, the Australia Council of the Arts, and the American Australian Association. Aristea holds a DMA and MM in Composition from The Eastman School of Music. www.aristeamellos.com Music in the American Wild began as a celebration of the 2016 U. S. National Park Service Centennial. During the Summer of 2016 the American Wild Ensemble toured seven national parks to premiere the works recorded here. Eleven composers and eight performers came together to fill several of our country’s grandest natural venues with a new opus of inherently American music. These commissioned works, supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, were inspired by the history, variety, and majesty of our national parks and other American landscapes. From caves and mountaintops to forests and lakeshores, the Music in the American Wild initiative honored a major milestone in American conservation by letting new music ring out from sea to shining sea. Emlyn Johnson, flute Ellen Breakfield-Glick, clarinet Lauren Becker, horn Jeremy Potts, violin Emily Sheil, viola Daniel Ketter, cello Colleen Bernstein, percussion Kevin Michael Holzman, conductor Recorded in May 2017 at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York Producer: Paul Coleman Recording Engineer: Michael Farrington Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Paul Coleman © 2018 all rights reserved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674778265810-Y1XX5FY58FRANVVGXTNA/image-asset.png other projects - Aristea Mellos - Everything Flowing (American Wild Ensemble) Video by Jorge Arzac from Music in the American Wild, released October 10, 2018 Full album available on Bandcamp: https://musicintheamericanwild.bandca... Everything Flowing - I. Hymn - II. Monarchs - III. Streaming Through On August 25, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the National Park Service, he established a precedent for the preservation and conservation of parts of our Earth. The power of the bill’s language, which asks that we leave designated sites “unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations” resonated not only through the United States, but throughout the world. Its sentiment is timeless, and as prescient as ever, as we grapple with the effects of climate change, and as we understand how the smallest of creatures that thrives in our parks is essential for the preservation of our own lives on this planet. Everything Flowing takes its title from a passage in John Muir’s “My First Summer in the Sierra”: “Everything is flowing – going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks...While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood...in Nature’s warm heart.” Muir reminds us that the smallest of objects is essential to the vitality of our ecosystems, and to the viability of our own lives. Everything Flowing explores these notions in three small movements. We open with a solemn hymn to the Earth, proceed to take a dizzying dance alongside the endangered monarch butterflies as they traverse the continent, and conclude with a chorale with a responsorial structure that reminds us of our interconnectedness with the natural world. Aristea Mellos Aristea Mellos is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music with a passion for chamber music and art song. She is a recipient of grants from the Presser Foundation, the Earle Brown Foundation, the Australia Council of the Arts, and the American Australian Association. Aristea holds a DMA and MM in Composition from The Eastman School of Music. www.aristeamellos.com Music in the American Wild began as a celebration of the 2016 U. S. National Park Service Centennial. During the Summer of 2016 the American Wild Ensemble toured seven national parks to premiere the works recorded here. Eleven composers and eight performers came together to fill several of our country’s grandest natural venues with a new opus of inherently American music. These commissioned works, supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, were inspired by the history, variety, and majesty of our national parks and other American landscapes. From caves and mountaintops to forests and lakeshores, the Music in the American Wild initiative honored a major milestone in American conservation by letting new music ring out from sea to shining sea. Emlyn Johnson, flute Ellen Breakfield-Glick, clarinet Lauren Becker, horn Jeremy Potts, violin Emily Sheil, viola Daniel Ketter, cello Colleen Bernstein, percussion Kevin Michael Holzman, conductor Recorded in May 2017 at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York Producer: Paul Coleman Recording Engineer: Michael Farrington Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Paul Coleman © 2018 all rights reserved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674779063223-08AC2VZR91FI0YQKBIUZ/image.jpg other projects - Aristea Mellos - Three Studies in a Borrowed Voice, Mvt III: Air (Doubles) Three Studies in a Borrowed Voice (2021) III. Air (Doubles) Tim Lee (viola), January 28, 2021 Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney Commissioned for the Sydney Bach Society by Create NSW (Play the City Grant) Video & Audio: Josinaldo Costa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674779018580-DNA8UCUUW3L87UVLNEUM/image-asset.jpeg other projects - The Ritsos Project Presents: The Moonlight Sonata The Ritsos Project presents Yiannis Ritsos's beloved poem, The Moonlight Sonata (in English), with live incidental music. Hatch Hall, The Eastman School of Music, February 16, 2016 Narrator: Aristea Mellos Musicians: Wei-Han Wu, piano; Hanna Hurwitz, violin; Zach Sheets, flute; Josinaldo Costa, guitar; Phil Pierick, saxophone/percussion; Sammy Lesnick, clarinets; Arda Cabaoglu, trumpet (off stage). With original music by: Daniel Pesca, David Clay Mettens, Aristea Mellos and Zach Sheets Video credit: Michael Sherman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674779948516-XZCV5KM5UWPSDEO4DGN8/image-asset.jpeg other projects - Four Etudes for Solo Guitar Performed (live) by Josinaldo Costa, September 4, 2016 at Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman School of Music, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1674780625064-80UVEAAWPQP8EANX5VEV/image-asset.png other projects - The Ritsos Project 2016: Mellos & Galathris preview Music: A. Mellos 'Tears Stream Through Water' 2016 Art: Chrysostomos Galathris 'Catharsis' 2016 Commissioned & premiered at the 2016 Ritsos Project Festival at the Vryssaki Art Space in Athens, and at the Karlovasi Town Hall, Samos Island, Greece. Also performed on October 2, 2016 at Kent State University. Performers: Josinaldo Costa, guitar; Phil Pierick, saxophone; Zach Sheets, flute http://www.aristeamellos.com/flute-sonatina daily 0.75 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133357145-Z4P6FDY4G82YQXFU977Y/IMG_6648.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1763282835298-PZB3WK2MJBW1LRFPYRZK/image-asset.jpeg flute sonatina - Sonatina for flute & piano, Mvt. I "Our whole body is like a harbor at dawn" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133845212-VDBXF9EKCA02L5G7JVLC/image-asset.jpg flute sonatina Live recording session May 2025 at The Church in Alexandria. Josh Batty, flute & Konstantin Shamray, piano. P.C. Josinaldo Costa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1763282758967-6C3STBQ29S4ADU6S2YS1/image-asset.jpeg flute sonatina - Sonatina for flute & piano, Mvt. II "Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke..." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754620941013-E4VJLWTF6E0EYNGMMN8C/image-asset.jpg flute sonatina - Sonatina for flute & piano, Mvt. III "There is nothing lighter than a life" "Sonatina" for flute & piano, Aristea Mellos (2024) Joshua Batty (flute), Konstantin Shamray (piano) Recorded at the Church in Alexandria, May 2025 Producer & Sound Engineer: Josinaldo Costa Videographer: Jeffrey Cheah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133307550-JGL0861Y13NOA177P5YV/IMG_4823.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133337470-KE87UO53946O5RF09FKP/IMG_9275.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133357145-Z4P6FDY4G82YQXFU977Y/IMG_6648.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133364624-ZJX259E2G5YH4E4WD4XE/IMG_2410.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133383405-KC16VEWZ6KIQP9GL5LSY/IMG_5161.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133395772-RO17XKF18T0TQEG289HU/IMG_9803.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133435260-CW4IGRA0345TA1669UHD/IMG_9126.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133406879-AP8UGUFBI067FJY2Y2RF/IMG_3871.jpeg flute sonatina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133478976-6KMOAEBB9ZKOF9G8O6TW/IMG_3508.jpeg flute sonatina http://www.aristeamellos.com/string-quartet daily 0.75 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754203474995-Q3ELR7VAPK04VFVTA9C6/IMG_3155.jpeg string quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754203474995-Q3ELR7VAPK04VFVTA9C6/IMG_3155.jpeg string quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56076241e4b090376bf7d07b/1754133650477-1FTCH0IAF2SU1I2VH7LE/image-asset.jpeg string quartet - 2024 Ascend composer concert - live streamed 29 November 2024 String Quartet No. 1 (2024) I. Tempus Fugit II. Perpetual Follies III. 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