Bio
Georgina is a UK based multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, equally at home performing classical music alongside carving out a unique space within the experimental music scene.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department and Royal Holloway University, she went on to have a busy performance career as a chamber and orchestral musician. She has performed music for productions on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and Netflix, Disney, as well as events such as TedX. She is also a versatile session musician, playing keyboards, electric violin, synthesiser, vocals and recorder and mandolin for numerous pop and rock artists at concerts and festivals throughout the UK and Europe.
In 2017, Georgina played the younger version of real-life violinist Rosie Johnson in the Sky Atlantic film “Music of the Mind”, documenting Rosie’s return to composing and performing using breakthrough computer-assisted technology following a devastating car accident which left her paralysed 30 years previously.
In 2021, Georgina became musician-in-residence at Southside House in London, part of the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust, performing and curating a number of concerts and collaborative events.
As a composer, Georgina has written soundtracks for short film, documentary and theatre. In 2022, Georgina performed a solo semi-improvised soundtrack for Shadow Road Theatre Company’s adaptation of ‘Macbeth: Sleep No More’ and is currently recording a suite for solo violin, voice and electronics under her pseudonym Mealla, due for release in April 2024.
Watch/ Listen
Ampersand - 'Bones' (Live Session)
Mealla - 'Beyond the Mist'
'Ave Maria' - Bach/ Gounod
Georgina Melling - Soprano
Rachel Horton-Kitchlew - Harp
Video by Conor Deedigan
Voice/ Piano - Mark Young
Produced by Georgina Melling
Synthesizer/ Vocals / Electronics - Georgina Melling
Drums - Adam Williams
Bass - Tom Campbell
Electric Violin - Georgina Melling
Guitar/ Keyboard - Tom Stone
Written by Mark Young
Produced by Tom Campbell
Amhrán na Leabhar (Song of the Books)
An impromptu performance at the library of Southside House, London.
Poem by Tomás Rua Ó Súillebháin (1785-1848), set to a traditional melody.
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