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Composers BureauMichael SchelleBiography Michael Schelle (b. 1950), Philadelphia) - Composer in Residence, Distinguished Professor of Music and founder/director of the JCFA Composers Orchestra (New Music Ensemble) at Butler University, Indianapolis. Schelle's works have been commissioned and performed by many orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the major orchestras of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Louisville, Cleveland, Chicago (Grant Park Summer Series), Baltimore, Birmingham,, Indianapolis, Springfield (MA), Dayton, Albany, Knoxville, New Mexico, Tulsa, Arkansas, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indiana Opera Theatre, the Greenwich (CT) Orchestra and Chorus, Western Wind Ensemble (Seattle), Group for New Music (Lincoln Center" NYC), the ISIS (Dallas), XTET (Los Angeles), Voices of Change (Austin) and Pittsburgh new music ensembles - and many other orchestras, university symphonic bands/wind ensembles and professional chamber ensembles coast to coast. Recent international performances of Schelle's orchestral works have included Kammerorchester Basel (Switzerland), the Czestochowa Philharmonic (Poland), Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional (Costa Rica), the Honolulu Symphony New Music Series, and the Koenig Ensemble of London. During Summer 2000, Schelle conducted numerous performances of his work Guttersnipe (for large symphonic wind ensemble) across Eastern Europe - including performances in Prague, Budapest, Vienna, and Schlatming (Austria). Real conductors of his works have included Sir Neville Marriner, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Bill McGlaughlin, Keith Lockhart, Julius Hegyi, John Nelson, Edvard Tchivzhel, Tsung Yeh, Maxiamo Valdes, John Jeter, Kirk Trevor, Stanley DeRusha, Neal Gittleman, Paul Polivnick, Gundaris Pone, and Loeg Kovalenko. Schelle has received composition grants/commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation (NYC), the Welsh Arts Council (Cardiff), the International Percussive Arts Society (USA), American Pianists Association (the required etude for 12 semi-finalists - 1995 competition), the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (Utah), Arts Midwest, the Indiana Arts Commission//Arts Council of Indianapolis (3 Master Fellowship grants), Mid-American Conference CBDNA, Great Lakes Arts Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Indiana State Orchestra Consortium (12 member orchestras), NPR, BMI, and ASCAP. Schelle's composition awards include First Prize in the 1987 Inter-American Competition for New Orchestral Works ( South America), First Prize in the first (1985) Music in the Mountains National Competition for New Orchestral Works (*New York), and twice a Pulitzer Prize nominee (1988, for Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; and 1994 for Spirits). In 1989 he was named "Distinguished Composer of the Year" by the Music Teachers National Association and, December 31, 2001, the Indianapolis Star newspaper selected the 12/5/01 Ronen Chamber Ensemble program that featured Schelle's 1981 three movement chamber violin concerto Play Us Chastity on Your Violin as the "No. 1 Classical Music Event of 2001 in the City of Indianapolis". Schelle is a frequent quest composer at colleges and new music festivals across the country, including recent extended residencies and ""All-Schelle" concerts at Syracuse University, Washington State University, University of Southern California, Louisiana State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Kent State University, Capital University, Bowdoin College (Maine), University of Kansas, Sam Houston State University, Saint Mary 's College, and the University of Massachusetts. He has been composer in residence at the Spoleto USA Festival (Charleston, SC), the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts (Virginia), the Center for New Music at Duquesne University, and twice at the MacDowell Artists Colony (NH). His degrees are from Villanova University (Theatre), Butler University, the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford (CT), and a Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. His teachers have included Arnold Franchetti, Dominick Argento, and Aaron Copland. His works are published by MMB Music, Inc.(St. Louis), European American Music, Indiana University Press, Moon of Hope Press (choral), and American Composers Edition. During the summers of 1994-1999, Schelle lived in the Los Angeles area working with his alter-ego 'part-time' creative passion - movie music; composing/'ghost-writing' on numerous cheap low-budget, cheesy, sleazy B-film scores including The Mummy, Bikini Prison, and G-Men from Hell. Schelle's 450-page book The Score: Interviews with Film Composers, commissioned/published by Silman-James Press (Los Angeles), was released internationally in October 1999. "The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up" - Paul Valery Further Information
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