Robert Marcelonis

Robert Marcelonis was an American musician and artist based in Philadelphia.

Biography

Robert Marcelonis had five sisters and two brothers.
Marcelonis studied at Temple University and received a degree in music composition. He composed commemorative music for the canonization of John Neumann in 1977.
Marcelonis worked as a computer consultant until 1992, when he was diagnosed with AIDS. He quit work and began focussing on his musical career: he staged his early musical Fables, based on Aesop's Fables, at a community theatre in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He then wrote the musical Copernicus over a four month period and staged it at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to raise money for AIDS organizations.
Marcelonis died at his Germantown home on March 30, 1995.