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Michael Schelle

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Michael Schelle
Michael Schelle


Biography

Michael Schelle (born 1950, in Philadelphia, PA) is Composer-in-Residence, Distinguished Professor of Music, and founder/director of the notorious JCFA Composers Orchestra (new music ensemble) at the School of Music, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA. Raised in the shadows of New York City (Bergen County, NJ), Schelle's degrees are from Villanova University (theatre), the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford (CT), and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His teachers have included Aaron Copland (private), Arnold Franchetti, Eric Stokes, and Dominick Argento. His works are published by Keiser Classical (formerly MMB Music (St. Louis), Indiana University Press, European American Music, American Composers Edition (NYC), and commercially recorded by CRS (Philadelphia) and Albany Records.


In 2000, Schelle conducted his Guttersnipe (large symphonic wind ensemble) across Europe including performances in Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Schladming (Austria). In March 2008, he participated in performances of his Prayer (2004, for solo cello and chamber wind ensemble) in Prague, Austria, Luxemburg, Amsterdam and Germany. In 2009-2010, Schelle was the featured guest composer with the South Shore Orchestra (Chicago) on a two-week concert tour of China (Beijing, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, etc.) that featured his "Wright Flight" Piano Concerto (2002). In 2009 and 2010 Schelle was 2X the featured guest composer at Aichi Prefectural University and Nagoya Imperial University, JAPAN.


Michael Schelle's 2011/2012 consortium commission (35 university symphonic bands including Eastman, Michigan, Texas-Austin, Florida, Indiana, Arizona State, Kansas State and Michigan State) is THE END OF THE WORLD, a piece inspired by Nostradamus, the Mayan calendar and the March 2011 Japanese earthquake / tsunami.


Schelle has received grants from: the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Arts Council, American Symphony Orchestra League, Rockefeller Foundation, IRCAM League of American Orchestras, the Welsh Arts Council (Cardiff), the New England Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania State Arts Council, Indiana Arts Commission, Great Lakes Arts Alliance, Arts Midwest, "Meet the Composer", many others, and has held extended residencies at numerous colleges, universities and new music festivals across the country and at the Spoleto USA (Charleston, SC), the MacDowell Colony (NH) and the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts (VA).


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