JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA



MICHAEL SCHELLEfounder / director / web design

 FRANK FELICEassociate director / engineer

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN,  spiritual advisor


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COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
was founded in 1982 by MICHAEL SCHELLE


The heart, the soul and the lungs of new music at Butler University is the notorious JCFA
COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA, the I-70 post-modern new music superhighway. The group is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of music by 'not dead yet' (or recently dead) composers and also serves as a performance ensemble / improvisation ensemble / breeding ground for the university student composers.
The versatile, energetic, action-packed JCFACO programs (over 250 concerts on and off campus since 1982) consist of new compositions by Butler student composers, 20th Century avant garde / experimental 'classics' and new music by contemporary composers from across the US and abroad such as :

Steve Reich, Philip Glass,
John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Meredith Monk, Louis Andriessen, David Tudor, Harold Budd, Charlemagne Palestine, Cornelius Cardew, Prince, Alvin Curran, Robert Ashley, Barney Childs, David Bedford, Dan Lentz, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, Luigi Nono, Conlon Nancarrrow, Terry Riley, Christian Wolff, Phil Winsor, Yoko Ono, Eve Beglarian, Olivier Messiaen, Ornette Coleman, Murray Schafer, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toru Takemitsu, Krzysztof Penderecki, Frederic Rzewski, Jacob Druckman, Akira Ifukube, James Tenney, Cecil Taylor, Elliott Schwartz, Elliot Carter, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Franz Waxman  . . .


GUEST COMPOSERS  we have brought to campus for concerts, masterclasses, workshops & seminars include: 

George Crumb, Aaron Copland, John Adams, John Corigliano, film composer Christopher Young (1998, 2010, 2012), Chinary Ung, Sven-David Sandstrom, Elliott Schwartz, Steven Stucky, Michael Daugherty, William Albright, Stephen Gryc, Giya Kancheli, Paul Chihara, Arnold Franchetti, Henry Gwiazda, Dinos Constantinides, Karel Husa, Zae Munn, James Mobberley, Rocky Reuter, Andrew Simpson, Phillip Schroeder, Jim Fox, Nat Evans, Janos Kokonnen (Helsinki), Maseo Homna (Tokyo), Aleksander Vujic (Prague), Lai Sheung Ping (Hong Kong), Hifumi Shimoyama (Tokyo), Akira Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan)

 


 


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JCFACO HAS RECEIVED ELEVEN (11) "MEET THE COMPOSER" / AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER GRANTS
FOR JCFACO GUEST COMPOSER RESIDENCIES SINCE THE 1990'S


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     JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA presents:  
     
     FIRE OF DESIRE
  symposium  :  November 2011


      Michael Schelle, director

      FIVE Japanese guest "Artists in Residence" for a week of concerts, lectures, panels, presentations, etc.

      Akira Kobayashi (composer)
      Tagiru Fujii (avant garde music scholar)
      Satsuki Inoue (musicologist)
      Hideki Kobayashi (painter and Van Gogh scholar)
      Kazuaki Shiota (composer / sound design artist)


     

      New Music panel with (L to R): Prof. Rusty Jones, Kazuaki Shiota, Dr. Elizabeth Mix, Tagiru Fujii,
      Akira Kobayashi, Prof. Satsuki Inoue, Shane Monds (Butler grad composer), Zane Merritt (SUNY Buffalo)



                     Kobayashi (L) and Fujii backstage before the performance of Kobayashi's
                     ASTREA FOR ORCHESTRA (2011) premiered by the Butler University Symphony Orchestra

     
                      



                     Michael Schelle and Akira Kobayashi, in the audience for the premiere

                    



          Akira Kobayashi presentation :  Butler composition students
      
         
      


          Kobayashi working with Butler grad composer Shane Monds (from Baton Rouge, LA)

         



         
      



        
      
         Following the JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA concert of Kobayashi's chamber music :
         a few of the Kobayashi performers:  (L to R)  Michael Schelle, Amanda Seyler (flute),
         Akira Kobayashi, Shane Monds (piano), Lauren Finn (harp).



         KOBAYASHI and FUJII also gave new music presentations at the Indiana University School of Music

        
      
         L to R, with IU faculty composers: 
         Tagiru Fujii, David Dzubay (IU), P. Q. Phan (IU), Don Freund (IU), ???, Kobayashi, Schelle
      

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         GALA POST-SYMPOSIUM RECEPTION @ Clowes Memorial Hall for the Performing Arts, Butler University
 
         (L to R) JCFA Dean Ron Caltibiano, Prof. Inoue, Kobayashi, Butler University President James Danko,
         and symposium director Michael Schelle (trying valiantly to describe something . . . . . )

            



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CHRISTOPHER YOUNG, Guest Composer     October 2010



Internationally-acclaimed Hollywood film composer CHRISTOPHER YOUNG visits with the composition students, the JCFA Composers Orchestra and the Butler Symphony Orchestra.

CHRISTOPHER YOUNG has over 100 highly original film scores to his credit since the mid-1980's, including massive orchestral / choral scores for many cult horror, suspense and action blockbusters such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Species, Drag Me to Hell, The Core, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Ghost Rider, Drag Me to Hell, Tales from the Hood, Spiderman 3, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Grudge 1 and 2, The Fly 2, The Vagrant, The Dark Half, Bless the Child, The Tower, Hard Rain, Invaders from Mars, Jennifer 8, Urban Legend, The Dorm that Dripped Blood, The Uninvited, Judas Kiss, Entrapment, Swordfish and many more.  Not always so scary, Chris has scored many dramatic and 'relationship' films such as The Wonder Boys, When in Rome (2010), Love Happens, The Shipping News, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Creation, Hurricane and Rounders.

The BSO concert on 10/31/2010 included extended suites from Chris' terrorific scores for Hellbound / Hellraiser (1988), Spiderman 3 (2007) and Drag Me to Hell (2009). During his five-day residency, Chris worked (often) with the Butler composition students, gave lecture demonstrations in composition/composing for film, and worked with the Butler Symphony Orchestra in preparation for the Halloween concert . . .





 




                                                    









     Oh, no, there's a problem with the End Title of DRAG ME TO HELL . . . .

                                       


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Christopher Young working with a few of the Butler composition majors






































Christopher Young working with freshman composition major KEVIN VOGEL (Cleveland, OH) :













CHRISTOPHER YOUNG  with pianist / composer  MIHO SASAKI



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The Butler Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Richard
Auldon Clark, and BSO concertmaster / Bride of Frankenstein Tricia Frasure,
in the Main Title from Christopher Young's DRAG ME TO HELL (2009)








Stunning, extraordinary BSO performances of Christopher Young's HELLRAISER, SPIDERMAN 3
and
DRAG ME TO HELL prompted a spontaneous standing ovation from the sold-out house  (2,300)






Chris Young backstage, with The Bride of Frankenstein . . .






BACKSTAGE with BSO Music Director and Conductor, Richard Auldon Clark





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         MICHAEL SCHELLE  backstage : 
                 - always
"The Mysterious Lady in Red" for Halloween



        


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BELOW: a New York City style meal at Shapiro's Delicatessen downtown
before heading off
to a Haunted House on the south side of Indy (which
is already a pretty scary neighborhood)


Chris' passion is Halloween, and he has visited over 100 haunted houses
in the USA. He ranked Indy's HAUNTED ASYLUM in the top 20% of those
he's visited over the years . . .



     





             










                      


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Michael Schelle (L) and Christopher Young, c. 1997 : in some South Central
L. A. bar, gathering material for the extended Christopher Young interview in
Michael Schelle's 440 page film music book, THE SCORE (1999 - Silman-James Press)



 

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       OCTOBER 2009  JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA presents: 

                  Guest Composer from Tokyo: 



                  HIFUMI SHIMOYAMA  (b. 1930)
 

                
 







          PHOTOS  OF  SHIMOYAMAFEST  2009

 
 MICHAEL SCHELLE  w/Guest Composer  HIFUMI SHIMOYAMA . .
     
                                we can't share clothing
 
        

 
 
  SHIMOYAMA ... photo-op stalking one of my (5) Maine Coons
 
  
 
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       Indiana University composer P Q Phan, Schelle, Shimoyama

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SHIMOYAMA with the concert poster, and ULTRAMAN :
 
 

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SHIMOYAMA,  MIHO SASAKI  (composer, pianist, and 24/7 translations), 
NY / Butler grad composer SCOTT COMANZO and MRS. YOKO SHIMOYAMA :
 
( ... altho composer COMANZO looks adorable, he is actually not a midget ... he is kneeling

 



 
SHIMOYAMA working with Butler University composition majors
 
 
 



SHIMOYAMA reacts to a question about John Cage






All Hell breaks loose in Schelle's studio as a few Grad Composers react to

Mrs. Yoko Shimoyama taking on the Hannibal Lechter Silence of the Lambs mask




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REHEARSALS and CONCERT:  SHIMOYAMAFEST 2009 . . .

 
 
Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando and cellist Margot Marlatt
 

 
Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando, Bill Grubb, Emilio Buonanni and Hifumi Shimoyama,
after a breathtaking performance of Shimoyama's 1972 masterpiece,
WAVE
 
 


Pianist Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando, Hifumi Shimoyama, cellist Bill Grubb
 



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POST-CONCERT RECEPTION, hosted by the Butler University grad composers . . . 
SCHELLE,  SHIMOYAMA, and about 1/2 of our composition majors . . .








              


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    JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA




     COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA presents: guest artist HIROKO SENOO (Japan)
     World Premiere of
IKI by Miho Sasaki, written for Ms. Senoo

           (at one point she plays the flute with chopsticks)


     





       L to R : Zane Merritt, Miho Sasaki and Hiroko Senoo rehearse a
       new piece by composer / guitarist (and Butler alum), Zane Merritt


         



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JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA CONCERTS
 
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 ....








 



BELOW :  SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE  (2010) by Michael Schelle








Moments before our 21 October 2010 concert began, about 20+ very senior citizens (many w/walkers, wheel chairs, oxygen tanks) suddenly arrived. After the program I asked two very handsome elderly gentleman, "what's the deal" - they said that the "Social Director" of their Robin Run Retirement Village Community had just posted a notice on the Activities Bulletin Board . . .

FREE CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT, TONIGHT, 8 PM
THE JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA at BUTLER UNIVERSITY
BUSES LEAVE AT 7:15 pm



The publicity slogan for Robin Run is "exceptional living for exceptional people"  Now they have experienced exceptional music !! After the concert, one darling little old lady told me : "Oh, my, we will be talking about this all the way home, and tomorrow morning at breakfast !! " . . .

                                    So are we  - best audience ever  :)


 




         








     Megan Drevits,  Sammy Johnson,  Miho Sasaki,  Daisy Chew

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             5/8ths of an Inch (2009) by JCFA grad composer, Daniel McIntosh
 
                           (Michael Schelle, tools / 'percussion')
 
     


VIDEO   BUTLER BEAT promo : JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA



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ROLL  (1976)  by ED LONDON


 
   

Above: Three of the twenty-five (25) 2009/2010 JCFA Composers: 
Scott "The Big Show" Pfitzinger,  Kyle Wernke,  Rev. Daniel McIntosh
 
 

 
Ed London's  ROLL



                




               BELOW: vintage COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA publicity shot from the 1990's


                
 


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JCFACO GUEST COMPOSERS



MICHAEL SCHELLE and Guest Composer PAUL CHIHARA : infamous new music composer, film composer, Composition program Director at UCLA School of Music, Los Angeles
 
 
                                       
                      
                                JCFACO CHIHARAFEST 2006

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                          with Guest  Composer JOHN CORIGLIANO, 1990's
 
                      
 

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with Guest Composer ELVIS COSTELLO  (2006)

Back:  Frank Felice,  Michael Schelle
Front:  Miho Sasaki, 
Elvis Costello,  Biljana Bozinovska

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with Guest Composer  JIM FOX  (Los Angeles)



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ROCKY REUTER, guest composer

A friend - and frequent guest - of the JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA, Rocky J. Reuter (Capital University, OH) has been JCFACO guest composer many times over the years

2011 : Guest Composer Rocky Reuter works with the Butler University Symphonic Band, directed by Robert Grechesky, for a performance of his emotionally-charged TRUMPETS ETERNALLY SOUNDING  (2006)




                   




                   


                  Rocky Reuter explains his unorthodox percussion


                    



                           Rocky Reuter relaxes @ the Schelle home
                           with silver Maine Coon cat Mary Claire


                           



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JCFACO SCHWARTZFEST 2006

Guest Composer 
Elliott Schwartz 
(Maine), Matthew Lanier & Michael Schelle


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ENSEMBLE 48  : GUERRILLA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE WITHIN JCFACO, FOUNDED BY 2007/09 JCFA GRADUATE COMPOSERS

L TO R:  MEGAN POKORNEY, BRIAN GRIMM, COL. JOSHUA MORRIS, MATTHEW SMART, SCOTT COMANZO, ZANE MERRITT, ADAM COHEN-LEADHOLM

 

ENSEMBLE 48 Grad Composers ZANE MERRITT  &  ADAM COHEN-LEADHOLM perform PAN-OCEANIC

 

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Vintage JCFACO 1990's :  CUT PIECE by Yoko Ono


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SCHELLEFEST 2010

 22 JANUARY 2010:  AN AMAZING SURPRIZE

60th BIRTHDAY CONCERT and PARTY

for MICHAEL SCHELLE


Featuring JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA and GUESTS

EIGHTEEN (18) brand new pieces written for the program !!

(composed by current students, past students and composers friends from across the U.S.

All the brainchild of Mrs. Schelle (pianist/composer Miho Sasaki) below :




ONCE IN A LIFETIME



PROGRAM, CONCERT, RECEPTION : all organized by Miho Sasaki




A few pix from the MADNESS that was SCHELLEFEST 2010









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VIDEO

A FEW OF THE 18 CRAZY PIECES WRITTEN FOR SCHELLEFEST 2010 :

MICHAEL SCHELLE: EIN PORTRAIT  by Frank Felice

LEVESQUE  by Zane Merritt

O' VICTORY  by Brooks Frederickson

2 X 2  by Amanda Seyler

POSTCARDS FROM HELL  by Rocky Reuter

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One of Schelle's very best friends, composer/trombonist Rocky J. Reuter (Dean of the Capital University Conservatory of Music, Columbus, OH) wrote a new piece for the entire ensemble:  NO STAMPS NEEDED: POSTCARDS FROM HELL



BELOW : Miho Sasaki & Nana Omori : the quintessential URTEXT performance of Miho's iconic TOKYO XTREME: THE DESECRATION OF THE SUZUKI METHOD (2009)

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VIDEO

THE BIG GRAND FINALE  of SCHELLEFEST 2010: featuring the
"GODZILLA MARCH" (arr. by Miho Sasaki) and "Happy Birthday"
simultaneously in about nineteen different keys

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SCHELLE  vs. Grad Composer SCOTT  "The Big Show"  PFITZINGER




BELOW:  All of my 2009/2010 terrorific Grad Composers came for the adventure, wrote new pieces, and contributed a great deal of help and coordination for SCHELLEFEST 2010  (altho a couple of the composers didn't make it into these photographs)








THE END

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The next day, when the dust had settled, I took my kids (who had surprized me coming from NYC  and New Haven for the SCHELLEFEST 2010 weekend) to our favorite Mom 'n Pop Chinese restaurant, at the corner of Keystone and E. 72nd St. in Indianapois, House of Cheung


                  

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RECENT JCFACO PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

JCFA Composers Orchestra, the Butler Symphony Orchestra with Hollywood film composer Christopher Young ... 1999, 2010

1999: JCFA Composers Orchestra on tour: Capital University (Columbus, OH) - February

1999: JCFACO performs for the Morgan Swift Arts and Culture Mayoral Candidacy fundraiser:
Susurrus Space
, 429 E. Vermont, Indianapolis, IN - 20 February 1999 JCFA Composers Orchestra was the invited ensemble (and paid) to perform an entire program at the state convention of the National Innovative Change Network Society - 4/99

2002: members of JCFACO perform in the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia  . . March 2002

2004: JCFACO - Terry Riley's In C, Clowes Hall, MidWinter Dance Festival: Feb 19-21, 2004

2004: JCFACO performs concert: Clowes Hall - for Freshman Orientation! August 2004

2004: JCFACO performs full-length concert at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN: September

2007: JCFACO performs full-length concert at Anderson University, IN:  November 2007

2009: JCFACO performs concert @ The Wood Room, Circle Theatre, Indianapolis:  3 March 2009 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra hosts, the monthly First Monday concert series

2009: JCFACO guest ensemble for Society of Composers, Inc. Region V Conference, Iowa, 10/09

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2008: JCFA Composition major, KYLE WERNKE, directs select members of JCFACO in a performance of JUMPING MUSIC (by Laura Dean) in the streets of PRAGUE, VIENNA and AMSTERDAM, March 2008 . . .



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ANNUAL JCFA COMPOSER / CHOREOGRAPHER PROJECT:

Since 2000, annual pairing of 10 - 12 JCFA student composers with 10 - 12 JCFA Dance
Department choreography students for original collaborative presentations / performances.

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JCFACO HOSTS NEW MUSIC FESTIVALS / CONFERENCES


2005 SCI Region V Festival Conference : Midwest regional conference of Society of Composers, Inc. at Butler University. Nine (9) concerts (chamber, orchestra, band, choir) of members music, lecture series, etc.  Four days in November 2005

1985 ASUC/SCI Region V Festival Conference : Midwest regional conference of the American Society of University Composers at Butler University As co-chair of the region (1984 - 1996), I organized / hosted the festival/ conference which included 8 concerts (chamber, orchestra, band, choir) of members music, lecture series, etc.  Christopher Rouse, Guest Composer November 1985

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REVIEW

(NUVO, Indianapolis' weekly Village Voice-style underground newspaper):

"Psst . . . Wanna hear something scary? For many, the words "contemporary music" are enough to induce vertigo. Throw in "student orchestra," and they can go positively psycho. But no one should be spooked by the JCFA Composers Orchestra at Butler University. This rapscallion ensemble, under the direction of Butler Composer in Residence Michael Schelle, dishes out contemporary musical fare with saucy style. Those who equate "student bands" with "student drivers" - as something to be given a wide berth - should summon the courage to drive over, take a look. JCFACO refuses to let jazz and rock have all the fun when it comes to musical experimentation. 

JCFACO concerts present numerous premieres and a repertoire of late 20th century chamber   musicm with an emphasis on pieces that otherwise wouldn't have a ghost of a chance of being heard in Indianapolis. It's for 'people just looking for something very different in the local music world,' Schelle says. 'If you are into the weird, the bizarre, the unusual, the somewhat irreverent, we are for you.' But, he adds, it's all done with professionalism, serious rehearsal, pedagogical objectivity, and a 'wink of the eye.' JCFACO's next program will include Moon Babies Get Off My Car by Tim Perrine (ed. note: Tim's a recent graduate of the USC Film Scoring Program), My Mother Told Me by Rob Simpson, Schemascapes by Adam Cotton, Unexpected Voices by James Mobberley (UM Kansas City), and This is Halloween (from Nightmare Before Christmas) by Danny Elfman, arr. by Tim Perrine."
                                                                          NUVO, October, 2008 - Gary Weir


Ed. note:  after two reviews of JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA concert, Mr. Gary Weir was terminated by NUVO.    Coincidence ?? .... we don't think so

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Senior composition major KYLE WERNKE (red shirt) conducts 'Orchestra No. 3'
in Music for 4 Orchestras, Audience and Soloist by Elliott Schwartz

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WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE

JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA CONCERTS:


I don't like it.  It's not real music  -  anon. JCFA voice major

Get me the Hell out of here  -  anon. music major

It's a New World Order !  -  Melissa Williams

Daddy, do you really get paid to do this?  -  Katie Schelle

This is great ! Can I join ??  -  Annalia Leto, piano major

Do you think this will hurt? 
Raymond Leppard

This stuff is terrific!  -  Dr. Peter Alexander, Dean, JCFA

More fun than Schoenberg  -  Dr. Louis Chenette

I Used to Like this Piece   -   anon JCFA voice major

Better than Pork Butt on a Stick  -  Maren Urness

Is this like musica ficta or something?  JCFA theory student

Do you guys rehearse?  -  anon. JCFACO parent

Repulsive, yet strongly seductive  -  Anderson University faculty

I thought I was dying, & found myself afraid I wouldn't  -  Anderson U.


Music started going to shit when the Romantics died. Yeah, every once
in a while they (the Composers Orchestra) will have something decent,
but I swear if they ever do another one of those "IN C" minimalists concerts, I'll fucking kill them all
   -   Cory Ellison


Sit in the back row, it's safer there  Gary Weir, NUVO

Uproarious and insightful, provocative  -  Helen Straight

Duck!  -  Michael Sells, DMA, Dean

Four thumbs up! 2 stars! Too hip for NUVO  -  Dr. Robert Grechesky

Dr. Schelle, do you permit this kind of music?  -  Dainis Michel's father

I didn't say anything Natalie Booth

Made me eager to avoid Hell at all costs   -  anon Music Faculty







 
 
WE'RE WATCHING
 

 
 
  
JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA HALLOWEEN CONCERT, 1996
Dr. Paula Telesco, Dr. Rocky J. Reuter and Dr. Michael Schelle


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WE'RE ALWAYS KEEPING OUR EYES OUT FOR NEW MUSIC


COMPOSERS, CONTACT US :   mschelle@butler.edu







       













                                              

                                                                                  ACK ACK

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COMPOSITION STUDIES  (B.M., M.M.)  @  BUTLER UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF MUSIC
JORDAN COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
BUTLER UNIVERSITY
4600 SUNSET AVENUE
INDIANAPOLIS, IN  46208


MICHAEL SCHELLE, Composer in Residence



Chicago grad composer GREGG MEDLEY vs. MICHAEL SCHELLE 

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BUTLER COMPOSITION STUDENTS  (majors :  BM, MM):                                                      

B.M. - Approx. 3 - 4 freshman are accepted into the competitive B.M. program each year. I have drawn regularly from the Great Lakes region, both coasts, (NY, NJ, PA, VA, CA, WA, OR),  New England, and have welcomed undergrad composition majors from many foreign countries including China, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Canada and Thailand

M.M. - Approx. 3 - 4 composers are accepted into the competitive Graduate Composition program each year.  The students in the program usually come from the "outside" : recent graduate students from Oberlin, Grinnell, Bowdoin College, Pamona College (CA), New York City, University of Redlands, Long Island, NY, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Boston, California, Minnesota, Florida, Wyoming, Alabama, Iowa, Washington D.C., Washington State, California, West Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oregon, Macedonia, Chile, Tokyo and Toronto.



BUTLER COMPOSERS  (after Butler University):                         

Over 250 BM/MM composers have been accepted (most with graduate teaching fellowships / assistantships) into advanced composition programs (MM, PhD, DMA) at many prestigious institutions across the U.S. and abroad including 

Cornell University, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Michigan, Duke, Indiana University, Boston University, Princeton University, University of Southern California (DMA and the USC Film Scoring Program), University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of Chicago, NYU (New York University), SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, UCLA, The Ohio State University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Hartt School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Northwestern University,  UMASS, UCONN, Florida State University, University of Texas-Austin, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, Ithaca College, Syracuse, University of Washington-Seattle, University of Iowa, University of North Texas, Cal Arts & many more.

Many Butler composition students have been involved in the university STUDY ABROAD program, spending a semester - or an entire academic year - away from campus, including recent Butler composers studying in Austria, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, China, Japan and many other countries.  Five (5) of my students have been awarded Fulbright Scholar awards for graduate study abroad, and awarded the prestigious 2-year Davies-Jackson Scholarship (in national competition) for study at the composition program at Oxford - Cambridge, England. Since 1995, 3 composition students have been awarded the prestigious Presser Scholarship.  After final degrees, Butler composers enjoy active careers as university teachers and professional composers across the country and abroad.


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2006 - 2008 : 

"The Estrogen Years" : seven (7) deadly female grad composers :

L to R:  Amy Dolphin (Iowa), Nicholas Liebman (Chicago), Brooks Frederickson (Ft. Wayne), Miho Sasaki (Tokyo, Japan), Tammy Harding (Maine), Kristine McKenzie (Los Angeles), Luciana Schulle (Argentina). 

Not pictured : Biljana Bozinovska (Eastern Europe), Elizabeth Skriba (Chicago)