Dr. Michael Schelle, composer-in-residence, music theory,
composition
Dr. Schelle's Personal Jukebox
MICHAEL SCHELLE (b. 1950, Philadelphia):
raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, Schelle graduated from
Northern Highlands Regional High School where, as Captain of the
track team, he held the all-state distance records in javelin, shot
put and hammer for three years running.
Now 30 years running as Composer in Residence at Butler
University's School of Music in Indianapolis, he has been 2X a
Pulitzer Prize nominee, a finalist for the International Humour in
Poetry Competition (Paris), a published author (film music book)
and restaurant critic (Indianapolis).
Schelle's music has been performed by over 250 orchestras and
professional chamber ensembles across the US & abroad including
Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee
Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati
Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Greenwich
(CT) Orchestra & Chorus, Honolulu Symphony, Kansas City
Symphony, Alabama Symphony, New York Festival Orchestra, Missouri
Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, the principal orchestras of Albany
(NY), Baton Rouge, Birmingham, North Carolina, New Jersey, New
Mexico, Springfield (Mass), Knoxville, Evansville, Tulsa, Fort
Smith (AR) and Fort Wayne; Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, New World Chamber
Orchestra, Orkestra Projekt (IN), Columbus Pro Musica, XTET (Los
Angeles), Voices of Change (Dallas), SONOR (San Diego), ISIS
Ensemble (Austin), UQ (Urban Quartet Phoenix), Pittsburgh New Music
Ensemble, Ronen Chamber Ensemble, Indiana Opera Theatre, Eastman
School of Music New Music Group, etc. Recent critically-acclaimed
international performances of his music have included
Kammerorchester Basel (Switzerland), the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra
(Moscow), the St. Petersburg (Russia) Chamber Philharmonic,
Czestochowa Philharmonic (Poland), Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional
(Costa Rica), the Koenig Ensemble of London, the Vale of Glamorgan
Music Festival (Cardiff, Wales), the Banff Centre for the Arts
(Canada), CoMET (Contemporary Music Ensemble of Tokyo), the Kuala
Lumpur (Malaysia) Performing Arts Center Wind Symphony, 2007
Firenza International Music Festival (Italy) and in Shanghai,
Hangzhou, Ningbo, Beijing, Brussels, Berlin, Bombay, Budapest,
Bucharest, Vienna, Prague and Amsterdam.
Schelle has received composition grants from many prestigious
arts organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Rockefeller Foundation (NYC), the American Symphony Orchestra
League (NYC), the League of American Orchestras "Music Alive"
program, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Welsh Arts
Council (Cardiff, Wales, UK), the International Percussive Arts
Society, American Pianists Association, Barlow Endowment for Music
Composition (UT), the Great Lakes Arts Alliance, Arts Midwest, the
Indiana Arts Commission, ASCAP, BMI, the New England Foundation for
the Arts and the New York State Arts Council. Schelle has held
numerous extended composition residencies in the USA including the
MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire), Spoleto USA Festival (Charleston,
SC), Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts (Virginia), ICAM
(Institute of Contemporary American Music, CT), the Albuquerque
Youth Symphony Program, Inc. (two years: 2004 - 2006) and the
Finger Lakes Music Festival (upstate NY). He has been featured
Guest Composer for ALL-SCHELLEMUSIK programs, masterclasses &
lectures at many institutions including the University of
Massachusetts, University of Kansas, University of Oklahoma, Sam
Houston State University (TX), Louisiana State University, the
Catholic University of America (Washington D.C.), University of
Notre Dame, Washington State University, the Ohio State University,
California Lutheran University, Syracuse University, Eastern
Michigan University, Bowling Green State University, Capital
University (OH), the University of New Mexico, Old Dominion
University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kent State
University, USC, UCLA, NYU, SUNY and many others. Recent
international Guest Composer residencies have included: Aichi
Prefectural University (Yazako, Nagakute, Japan 2010), Nagoya
Imperial University (Japan 2009) The People's Electric Power
University School of Music (Beijing, China, 2010) and the National
University of San Jose / Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional (Costa
Rica).
Schelle holds degrees from Villanova University (theatre), the
Hartt School of Music / University of Hartford, Trinity College of
Music, London, UK, (diploma) and a Ph.D. from University of
Minnesota. His composition teachers have included Aaron Copland,
Arnold Franchetti, Eric Stokes and Dominick Argento. Schelle's
works are published by Keiser Music /Hal Leonard (New York/St.
Louis), Silman-James Press (Los Angeles, CA), Indiana University
Press, European American Music, American Composers Edition (NYC)
and commercially recorded by CRS (Philadelphia) and Albany Records
(NYC/London).
Download Dr. Schelle's "Strapping" from
Straight No Lithium for solo piano.
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(317) 940-9642
mschelle@butler.edu