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Chris Melchior has an exceptionally broad range of creative and technical experience, talents and skills which he puts to extraordinarily good use.

Chris first picked up the violin before the age of one, and by the age of eleven was awarded a full scholarship to the world-renowned Royal College of Music in London, where he studied all aspects of Western classical music from some of the world’s leading teachers. By the age of eighteen he was leading the country’s foremost youth orchestra (Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra) and learning the valuable skills of playing in smaller ensembles from one of the world’s two most highly regarded string quartets (the Delme).

Chris went on to obtain a First-Class Honors Degree from the England’s top performing-arts University (Middlesex) while gaining invaluable performance experience in jazz, contemporary, avant-garde and electronic music, alongside recording-studio techniques, composition skills, and Fine Art. As founder member of the production group “White Monkey Trip”, he was an integral part of best-selling performances at the most prestigious venues for contemporary arts in Britain (Lilyan-Baylis, and The Place), and gained advanced skills and experience while doing Masters-Degree classes in electronic music and Fine Art in America.

Chris created dance music and sound-effects for a number one in the world computer game in a recording-studio he designed and built himself, recorded with Virgin Records, Atlantic Records and numerous smaller labels, worked on numerous occasions with Mike Pelanconi the producer of the early Orb albums (probably the most famous ambient-dance group), and taught Masters-Degree level classes in electronic music and composition, as well as completing professional training in NLP (communication and excellence techniques). He has created best-selling graphic design, as well as working in visual Fine Art and integrated multi-media performances. His presentation of ambient music and video at a performance-arts University in America was exceptionally well received and he has been invited to lecture on ambient music by Universities internationally. His wide range of relevant skills and experience include computer programming, electronic engineering, sound engineering and playing a wide variety of authentic folk music for many years including performing in ensembles with the top Indian-music guitarist in Britain. He has always had a great love for ambient music even many years before it became an accepted mainstream art-form, and wrote a Masters Degree Thesis on the subject (see www.chris-melchior.com/ambient_paper.htm).

Rapid advances in software technology now enable Chris to implement a real-time-programmable, fully-flexible sound-recording-studio within a single computer . . . giving an astounding range of sounds and the amazing practical possibility of creating any (motif-based) musical-form and any combination of sounds and effects spontaneously in real-time. He integrates this with playing of live acoustic instruments (including violin) and live keyboards. .