Welcome! This is the website for the Boston-area composer and musician Mel Fitzhugh, who enjoys playing and composing for historical instruments (e.g., Renaissance and Baroque recorders, viols, harpsichord and chest/continuo organ).
A native of Stafford, Virginia, Melika M. Fitzhugh (A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe: Music Theory and Composition, M.M. Longy School of Bard College: Composition) has studied conducting and composition with Thomas G. Everett , Beverly Taylor , James Yannatos, Julian Pellicano , Roger Marsh , Jeff Stadelman , and, most recently, Osnat Netzer and John Howell Morrison . Performed internationally, Mel's compositions have been commissioned by John Tyson , Catherine E. Reuben, John and Maria Capello, Laura and Geoffrey Sc
American Recorder Society Magazine, Fall 2013 Quilisma Consort (Melika M. Fitzhugh, Lisa Gay, Carolyn Jean Smith) , offered three works by Fitzhugh -- a recorder player but also a Master's student in composition at the Longy School. Cascading harmonies and quasi minimalist sections played nicely together in her 2010 Sicilian-ish . American Recorder Society Magazine, Fall 2015 "...Also returning to the Relay was the Quilisma Consort ( Lisa Gay, Carolyn Jean Smith, Melika Fitzhugh ), here playing exclusively