Ivan Melillo

Flutist, composer and music producer.

He began playing guitar at 13 and found in Choro one of the central threads of his journey. He won the Rádio MEC Music Festival in 2020 and wrote 366 pieces throughout 2024.

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Ivan Melillo playing transverse flute — Flute · composition · production

Who is Ivan

From rock to Choro.

Music entered his life in adolescence, with guitar at age 13. Study and experimentation led Ivan to the transverse flute, Choro and, later, composition, arranging, production and the creation of new projects.

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440+registered compositions across his career

50+releases as a producer, musician and performer

10k+copies sold independently by Choro Marginal

Work as a composer

More than 440 compositions registered throughout his career.

Ivan’s catalog encompasses hundreds of compositions written for different periods, ensembles, albums and projects. Among this extensive body of work, Crônicas Musicais became one of his most ambitious projects: in 2024, he wrote one piece every day and brought 366 new scores together in a yearbook. The book is one chapter in a much broader body of original work built throughout his career.

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Today’s composition from Crônicas Musicais

October 18

Pela Culatra

Behind the notes · Ivan’s note in Portuguese

Inspirada na expressão “o tiro saiu pela culatra”: quando algo volta contra aquilo que se pretendia. A música carrega essa sensação de resultado inesperado.

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Crônicas Musicais score yearbook by Ivan Melillo

A project within the work

366

Crônicas Musicais

In 2024, Ivan wrote one piece every day. The yearbook brings together all 366 scores in a publication by Atotô Label.

App available

Crônicas Musicais in your pocket. More than a digital edition of the book, the app turns the Yearbook into an interactive music library for discovering, listening to and studying all 366 compositions.

What you will find in the app

A piece for every date

Choose any day in the 2024 calendar and find the composition created on that date.

Listen, transpose and study

Listen to the music, change the key and follow the score on your instrument.

Behind the notes

Read the context of each piece and discover the idea, scene or expression that inspired the music.

Reading modeA clean page designed for following the score comfortably.

Enlarge the notation, choose parts and adjust the view to study on your phone or tablet.

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Available on the App Store and Google Play.