COMMISSIONS    .    GRANTS    .    FELLOWSHIPS    .    AWARDS


                                                   

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RECENT



  • New York State Council for the Arts

$25,000 New York State Arts Council grant to support various projects & activities as Composer in Residence with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival, NYC and upstate New York


  • League of American Orchestras, Inc.

$25,000 grant for five (5) new orchestral works as Composer in Residence for the great state of New Mexico. Michael Schelle was selected - by the League of American Orchestras - for the Music Alive: New Partnerships initiative, which fosters new relationships between composers and orchestras. Eight (8) extended trips to / residencies in New Mexico and five (5) different orchestra-commissioned world premieres during the period, sponsored by the League of American Orchestras, Inc. and MUSIC ALIVE / Meet the Composer, Inc.


  • College Band Directors National Association
2011/2012 : CONSORTIUM COMMISSION : a new work for symphonic band / symphonic wind ensemble, 'inspired' by the 2011 Japan earthquakes and tsunami, the Mayan calendar, and the Nostradamus doomsday prophecy for the end of the world on 21 December 2012. 35 CBDNA university bands participating in the consortium include Michigan, Eastman, Texas, Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Minnesota, etc.  (see NEWS page)


  • Midwest Orchestra Consortium

2012/2013 : CONSORTIUM COMMISSION : a new work for symphony orchestra : consortium orchestras include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, Missouri Symphony, the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra (Birmingham), South Shore Orchestra (Chicago), Purdue University Symphony and others . . . premieres begin in October 2012

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  • Arts Council of Indianapolis
        $7500 grant for composition, research and study in Japan : 2009


             


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           PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONS





             ORCHESTRAL

             Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

               Minnesota Orchestra

               Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

               Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

               Kansas City Symphony Orchestra

               Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

               Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

               Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

               Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra

               Indiana State Orchestra Consortium

               Culver Military Academy Orchestra

               Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

               Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

               Cleveland Chamber Symphony

               Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

               St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia)

               Kremlin Chamber Orchestra (Moscow)

               Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional (Costa Rica)




           CHAMBER MUSIC

               XTET (Los Angeles)

               American Pianists Association

               UQ (Urban Quartet of Phoenix)

               Indiana Opera Theatre

               Koenig Ensemble of London

               Eastman New Music Group

               Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

               Firenza New Music Festival (Italy)




           SYMPHONIC BAND / WIND ENSEMBLE

               World Association for Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles (WASBE)

               College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA)

               Mid-America College Band Directors Association (MAC-BDA)       




                 MANY OTHER ORCHESTRAS, CHAMBER ENSEMBLES and UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLES


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           MAJOR COMPOSITION AWARDS    (grants, prizes, awards and fellowships)


           


               National Endowment for the Arts

               American Music Center

               American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc.

               Rockefeller Foundation

               League of American Orchestras, Inc.

               The Welsh Arts Council (Cardiff, Wales)

               The Organization of American States  (OAS)

               International Percussive Arts Society

               American Composers Forum

               Eli Lilly Foundation Grant

               New York State Arts Council

               Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

               New England Foundation for the Arts

               AMC "Meet The Composer" Music Alive program

               Broadcast Music, Inc.

               Arts Midwest

               Minnesota State Arts Board

               Great Lakes Arts Alliance

               Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (Utah)

               American Pianists Association : 1998 commissioned etude for the 12 semi-finalists

               The Jerome Foundation

               Pew Charitable Trust

               Margaret Jory Fairbanks Fund

               Butler University / Holcomb Research Foundation : multiple faculty grants

               MacDowell Artists Colony, New Hampshire : extended residencies in 1977, 1989

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

               Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts (Vienna, VA) : Composer in Residence

               Music Teachers National Association Composition Prize : Composer of the Year

               Inter-American Music Festival Prize for New Orchestral Works  (Costa Rica)

               Delius Association Composition Prize

               Music in the Mountains Orchestral Composition Prize  (New York)

               Arts Council of Indianapolis :

                         $7,500 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition (2008)
                         $7,500 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition (2000)
                         $5,000 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition (1996)
                         $5,000 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition (1991)

              Indiana Arts Commission : Individual Artist Fellowship program: 1986, 1998