About Melodia Trio
Every event is better with gorgeous live music. Formed in 2009 by three young but accomplished musicians, the Melodia Trio provides beautiful music for all occasions in the Philadelphia region and surrounding areas. Our repertoire includes not only classical favorites, but pop and rock songs and tunes from Broadway. In fact, if you are looking for a particular song - any song! - let us know, and we'll arrange it and play it for you at your event.
Members
Angela Sperazza, Flute
Angela Sperazza is thrilled to be a part of Melodia Trio and the Philadelphia arts scene, having just moved here this fall to pursue a career in music and theatre. She has been performing on stage since she was four years old, beginning with piano and adding flute to her repertoire at the age of eight. As a flutist, she has played first chair in orchestras and wind/brass bands, along with chamber groups. At thirteen, Angela began performing as a vocalist and actor, singing in various school chorus groups and appearing in leading roles in school musicals such as Little Shop of Horrors and Anything Goes. At sixteen, Angela enrolled at Idyllwild Arts Academy, a nationally recognized performing arts school in California and graduated with top honors, receiving the coveted “Most Outstanding Theatre Student of the Year” award. From there Angela attended The Boston Conservatory where she graduated magna cum laude, receiving a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. Professionally, she has performed in theatre productions in Boston, Louisville, and Philadelphia and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association. She is also an accomplished composer/lyricist. Angela thanks her parents for their unending support as she pursues her dream!
Heather Mehr, Violin
Heather Mehr is an undergraduate at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, double majoring in Vocal Performance and Music Education on violin. Heather has performed with groups at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and toured China in 2008 to perform during the Beijing Olympics. She currently performs with the West Chester University Symphony Orchestra and in various WCU choirs. Outside of school, Heather teaches violin lessons and performs at a wide variety of special events including weddings, dinner parties, and business parties. In her spare time, Heather horseback rides, reads classic literature, and climbs trees with friends on her college campus.
Melissa Dunphy, Cello
Melissa Dunphy began piano lessons at three and violin lessons at seven; her current instrument of choice is cello. At sixteen, she graduated high school with the highest marks in Queensland in music performance, and soon afterwards toured to Asia and the United States with two youth orchestras as a violist. Since then, Melissa has played in orchestras, chamber groups and bands of all genres from folk to funk to cyberpunk. Melissa is also a nationally acclaimed composer; she conducted her large-scale choir work the Gonzales Cantata in the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and received rave press and reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Melissa received her Bachelor of Music (summa cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda) from West Chester University, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies in Music Composition at the University of Pennsylvania on a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship. When she isn't performing on the cello, Melissa can often be found on stage as a professional actress; following her performance as Ophelia in the Lantern Theater's Hamlet, the Philadelphia Inquirer hailed her as "unquestionably the city's leading Shakespeare ingenue."