• 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

2011/2013 : 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)

• Winner of the  2012 National Band Association Revelli Composition Prize

• Midwest Orchestra Consortium

2012/2013 : ORCHESTRA CONSORTIUM COMMISSION : The Exorcism of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Consortium orchestras include the Detroit Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, Missouri Symphony, Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, 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

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  

• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  

• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

• Kansas City Symphony Orchestra
  

• Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
  

• Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

• Nashville Symphony Orchestra

• Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
  

• Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra

• Indiana State Orchestra Consortium
  

• South Shore Orchestra (Chicago)

• Missouri Symphony Orchestra

• 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)

• Kammerorchester Basel (Switzerland)
  

• 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
       CONSORTIUM COMMISSIONS

• 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

           National Band Association  "2012 Revelli Composition Prize"

           New York State Arts Council

           Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

           New England Foundation for the Arts

           Greater Hartford Arts Council

           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 "Morton Gould Award" for Young Composers (under age 30): 1978, 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