Melanie Chilianis has an interest in both the performance and creation of contemporary sound. As a performer with re-sound she has recorded three CDs, including Terry Riley's In C as well as many new Australian works. Several of her live performances have been broadcast on ABC Classic FM. In 2001, she presented the first Australian performance of Thomas Reiner's Oblique (for solo flute) at the Federation Music Week: Contemporary Music of Australia and the Asia Pacific. As an improviser, Melanie has had airplay on Radio National, Triple J FM, SBS radio, RTR-FM (Perth) and 3PBS (Melbourne). She completed improvisation workshops with Jim Denley in Sydney in 1999 and with Tim O’Dwyer in 2001.

Melanie has an honours degree in music performance from Monash University and a graduate diploma in education from the University of Melbourne.

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Last year Melanie was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study applications of music technology for composition in primary school classrooms. She recently left Australia to undertake the study throughout the USA, Canada, U.K.