Jordan College of Fine Arts
School of Music

JCFA Composers' Orchestra

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Winter/Spring 2012 Composers' Orchestra Concerts

Date Event Time Location
2/9 JCFA Composers' Orchestra
featuring music by Caltabiano, Schelle, Ashbaugh, Janz, Trachsel, and Monds
8:00 p.m. LH 112
3/8 JCFA Composers' Orchestra 8:00 p.m. EDRH
4/12 JCFA Composers' Orchestra 8:00 p.m. LH 112
4/26 JCFA Composers' Orchestra 1:00 p.m. EDRH
**Check back frequently for updates to the schedule.

Coming soon: watch for a revamped "Composition at Butler" page with audio, video, and photos from the composers' orchestra! In the meantime, please visit Dr. Schelle's page with lots of photos and more information.

Founded in 1985 by Butler University Composer-in-Residence Michael Schelle, the JCFA Composers' Orchestra ("New Music Ensemble") is dedicated to the preservation (and presentation) of music by "not-dead-yet" composers.

The versatile, energetic, action-packed JCFACO programs (nearly 250 concerts on and off campus since the mid-1980s) consist of new works by many JCFA student composers as well as twentieth-century/avant garde classics and experimental new music by highly-respected contemporary composers from across the US and abroad. Featured guest composers with the JCFACO over the past two decades have included George Crumb, John Adams, Chinary Ung, Christopher Young (film composer of Species, Hellraiser, etc.), Paul Chihara, David Stock, Dinos Constantinides, Karel Husa, Jim Fox, Elliott Schwartz, James Mobberley, Henry Gwiazda, Rocky Reuter, Masao Honma (Tokyo) and Aleksander Vujik (Prague).

Watch the Butler Beat video about the JCFA Composers' Orchestra.

Fire of Desire! From November 9-14, 2011, JCFA was proud to host an "east meets west" symposium with guest composers and artists from around the world presenting their music and research. Here, our distinguished panel looks on as guest composer Kazuaki Shiota speaks.

Fire Meets Desire