Munro Melano is a film composer, singer, pianist, and songwriter living in Melbourne.

 

Most recently, Munro composed the Brass quintet score for feature documentary Because We Have Each Other (Sari Braithwaite, 2022).

 

Munro has also written the country music score for feature film Slim & I (Kriv Stenders, 2020), and the synth and string quartet score for feature film It All Started With A Stale Sandwich (Samantha Lang, Felix Media, 2019).

 

In 2018 he completed the avant-garde score for the provocative experimental feature film [CENSORED], which premiered at 2018 Sydney Film Festival, before launching into an international film run, winning Best Documentary at the 54th Chicago Film Festival. The success of the film, and its rich score, led to a series of special event live performance across Victoria with a 7 piece band. The soundtrack was released by ABC music.

 

In 2021 Munro worked with long time friend and composer Joel Woolf to write the music for forty videos for American Online Series ‘The Visiting Room’, which interviewed Prisoners in Angola Prison who were serving life without parole sentences.

 

Munro has worked extensively on film scoring including multi-award winning ABC Documentary Paper Trails, animated childrens short Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame, ABC documentary Why did she have to tell the world?, and horror short Violet Daze. He also created the music for “You Will See Me” – a 5 screen work that is showing in ACMI Melbourne until 2031.

 

As a collaborative songwriter his work has been nominated for an ARIA award and multiple Golden Guitars for his collaborations with Blue Grass act Mustered Courage.

 

As a solo artist Munro has released two independent EPs (Running Round, Blue Veins), and a self titled album. In 2022 Munro received a sustaining creative workers grant, and is currently working on his sophmore album.