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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
- 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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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 (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