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Belli's recent endevour is a cycle inspired by Cesare Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò. In 2025, pipa player Neal Huang commissioned and premiered she was foam at the Zhongshan Hall in Taiwan. In 2024, flute player Giorgio Consolati premiered two ludes for a dreaming flute in Ellicott City (Maryland). 

In 2022, the award-winning orchestral piece trame di sangue grigio premiered within the 2022 Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Concert Series at the Peabody Institute (Baltimore). Additionally, the label EMA-Vinci released the recording of [DOM], a tribute to the Via Crucis performed by DUOroboros.

In 2021, he composed the septet dal nostro cupo sempreverde, commissioned by the festival Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte and premiered by conductor Andrea Molino with the Ensemble degli Intrigati.

In 2018, the chamber work Lei, piangente [On a Shore of Cries] was programmed at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the iconic opera house festival in Florence, Italy. Commissioned by the SIAE-sponsored artistic residency Camere Contemporanee, this quintet has been brought by Ensemble degli Intrigati on a tour in Italy and Belgium.

One of his most performed works is Nudo di maschera, for string orchestra, originally written for the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and premiered by Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in 2016 (Florence). In 2019, this work had its South American premiere at Teatro Amazonas (Brazil), interpreted by Maestro Hilo Carriel & Orquestra de Câmara do Amazonas. In the same year, it received its North American premiere under the baton of American-prize-winner Filippo Ciabatti at Dartmouth College. 

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Belli’s music has been played at the Zhongshan Hall (Taiwan), Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence), Teatro Amazonas (Brazil), Dartmouth College (USA), Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano), Altre Voci Ensemble, DUOroboros, and Talea Ensemble (NYC).

In 2022-24, he was an adjunct assistant professor of composition & music theory at Shenandoah University. In 2022-23, he taught a course on contemporary classical music at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.