GRANTS,  COMMISSIONS,  AWARDS . . .

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• New York State Council for the Arts:  2007/2008

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS GRANT - 2007 / 2008
$22,000 grant to support various projects and activities as Composer in Residence with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the MCO at Keuka College (upstate New York), & in New York City. Three (3) Composer in Residence appointments for the MCO:  1st residency - Finger Lakes (NY) Summer Music Festival (June 2007); Premieres of 2 new works written during the June 2007 residency for the 10 player resident chamber ensemble (The Viola the Wind Swept Away and No Child Left Behind);     2nd residency - Keuka College (July, 2007), and 3rd residency: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, NYC, November 2007. Grant also supported creation/performances of new (2006) orchestration of Struwwelpeter (1991 cycle for tenor & piano), and 5-movement Midwestfunkenmusik (2006/07), Merkin Hall, NYC, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra AND commercial recording of an all-Schelle CD (Manhattan Chamber Orchestra) of Godzilla, Struwwelpeter, The Viola the Wind Swept Away, etc. Fall, 2009, New York City

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• American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (NYC)  2006

$25,000 grant/commmission for multiple  'Composer in Residence'  residences in the state of New Mexico: 2004 - 2006.  Eight (8) extended trips/residencies, and five (5) different orchestra world premieres . . . 2004 - 2006

• Arts Council of Indianapolis:  2007/2008

$7,500  Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition, research & travel to  JAPAN  (Hiroshima, Tokyo, Miya Jima, etc.).

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COMPOSITION GRANTS, cont.

• Arts Council of Indianapolis :

$7,500 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition and film music (1999/2000)      $5,000 Individual Artist Fellowship: commission for a new orchestral work ( 1996), and       $5,000 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition (1991) 

Indiana Arts Commission  $3,000 fellowships - Individual Artist Master Fellowship Program. Statewide competition for all ARTS disciplines: Summer, 1986;  Summer, 1998

American Music Center / Rockefeller Foundation:  3 copying assistance grants

New England Foundation for the Arts  -  Guest Composer residency, Greenwich, CT

Arts Midwest / Great Lakes Arts Alliance "Meet the Composer" funding for comp residencies 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991,  1992, 1994, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009

"Meet the Composer, Inc." New York - 15 residency fundings since 1983

Barlow Endowment for Music Compositon  (Utah)  -  $5000 grant for composition

Butler / Holcomb Research Foundation  Faculty fellowship grants for composition, research and film music work: summers, 1983 - 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 . . . c. $3000 - $5000 each

MacDowell Artists Colony  Peterborough, NH.  Residencies:  Summer 1977,  Summer 1988

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Awards: annual $$ guarantee, since 1984 . . .

ASCAP Awards to Young Composers  (under age 30):  1979, 1980

ASCAP Standard Awards Panel Grants  Annual grants: 1979 - 1983.  These were member grants awarded on an annual basis (in national competition) rewarding "creative activity."  (Since January, 1984, I am a member of BMI.) 
 

Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts - Wolf Trap Foundation Grant: Composer in Residence: Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts Composer's Cottage, Vienna, VA: 1978

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ORCHESTRA

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA KREMLIN  (Moscow, Russia)  2009

MANHATTAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA  (NYC)  2006, 2007, 2008

ALBUQUERQUE YOUTH SYMPHONY (five works)  2004 - 2006

EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA  2005   Crashout

DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA  1999  Samurai,  2002  Wright Flight  

KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA   2001   Titan

KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA   The Big Night

CLEVELAND CHAMBER SYMPHONY    Rapscallion

CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (100th Anniversary)  Centennimania

INDIANA STATE ORCHESTRA CONSORTIUM (15 orchestras)   Spirits

FORT SMITH (AR) SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA   Ear Infection

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA  (X2)  Oboe Concerto, 2 Piano Concerto

INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA   Spider Baby

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA    Swashbuckler

FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC     Mayday !

GREENWICH (CT) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA   After the Meridian

SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA    Blast!

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MID-AMERICA CONFERENCE BAND DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (consortium commission for 11 MAC conference university symphonic band/wind ensemble; When Hell Freezes Over for solo bass clarinet, baritone sax, and wind ensemble)

WELSH ARTS COUNCIL (Cardiff)  Double Quartet

CAPITAL UNIVERSITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC   Guttersnipe

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON   Contraband

ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   Seven Steps from Hell

BUTLER UNIVERSITY   King Ubu, Cliffhanger, Prayer

CHAMBER MUSIC

NAGOYA IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, JAPAN:   Nagoya Spiral

NEW YORK MUSIC SOCIETY:   Buckeye Zombies

MANHATTAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Chamber Ensemble: The Viola the Wind Swept Away,  No Child Left Behind,  In Secret,  Struwwelpeter  (orchestration), Midwestfunkenmusik . . .

AMERICAN PIANISTS ASSOCIATION:  Hammerstein, the required piece for the twelve (12)  'finalists' of the 8th Biennial Competition

INTERNATIONAL PERCUSSIVE ARTS ASSOCIATION:  Cry Wolf

INDIANAPOLIS SUZUKI STRING PROGRAM

PITTSBURGH NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE:  Play Us Chastity on Your Violin

MICHAIANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE:    Kid from Alabama

HUDSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE:   Inzio

INDIANA STATE MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION:  Musica Magnetizzare

RONEN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE:  X3 (Howl, Berlin Archetype, Godzilla )

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL (Indianapolis):   original musical for children (grades 1 - 5)  Aesop Rules!

INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART / NATIONAL ENDOWMENT:  Struwwelpeter

INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S CHOIR:   Oboe Darkness,  Pipuff

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COMPOSITION AWARDS and PRIZES

NB:   No composition contests have been entered since 1990 . . .

• Music Teachers National Association:  $2,000 First Prize in national competition for new chamber works, and honored as Distinguished Composer of The Year during the MTNA National Conference. Musica Magnetizzare was selected from 50 submissions (each state submitted it's First Prize piece). Wichita, KS. 1989

• Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (Utah) - $5,000 commission prize awarded (in national competition) for a new orchestral work 1989/90.

• Symposium XII for New Band Music- Second Prize in a national competition for new band music. Seven Steps from Hell (1985) was performed by the Virginia All-State Honors Collegiate Band (composer conducting). 8 works were selected (from 75 entries) for performance at the symposium: 3 were awarded prizes. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 1987

• "Music in the Mountains" National Competition for New Orchestral Works- $1,500 First Prize and New York premiere of Masque (1979) - in the first annual national competition - New York Festival Orchestra, SUNY-New Paltz. Work selected from 75 submissions.

• Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Prize- $1,000 First Prize in a national competition for new chamber works. Music for the Last Days of Strindberg (1979) was selected from 60 entries & premiered:  Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.

• American Society of University Composers Composition Prize - First Prize in the annual ASUC Student Composers Competition: Chamber Concerto for Solo Violin and Three Players (1978) was premiered at the 1979 ASUC National Conference and published in the ASUC Journal of Music Scores, Vol XII.   University of California-San Diego:  March, 1979  

• Inter-American Music Festival Composition Prize -  $3,000 First Prize in an international competition for new orchestral works sponsored by the Pan-American Cultural Foundation / Organization of American States. Lancaster Variations for Orchestra was selected from 250 entries to receive the award & performances by Orquesta Sinfonica National, San Jose, Costa Rica: 1978.

• Delius Association Composition Prize- First Prizein a national competition (chamber division) for Second Piano Sonata (1974). Orchestral work, El Salon Medico(1977), received 'Honorable Mention' in the orchestra category for the same year. Jacksonville, FL: March, 1978

• Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival Composition Prize- One of three invited guest composers for the annual week-long festival. Lancaster Variations for Orchestra (1976) was selected from over 100 entries (in a national competition), premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Indiana State University, Terre Haute: January, 1977

• Bayles Memorial Composition Award Hartt School of Music student prize 1976

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