Composers' Orchestra

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 100 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).