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Michael Schelle (pronounced Shelley), born 1950 in Philadelphia, is a composer of contemporary concert music [1]. He is also a conductor, author and teacher. Schelle grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he studied piano and conducting with Walter Schroeder. After receiving a pre-collegiate citation from the Trinity School of Music in London, he changed direction for a B.A. in theatre and philosophy from Villanova University (PA). Returning to music, with eyes now opened wide by discovering the music of Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Charles Ives, Frank Zappa and John Cage while studying theatre at Villanova, Schelle went on to receive composition degrees from the Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford, CT) and the University of Minnesota. Schelle studied composition with Arnold Franchetti, Aaron Copland, Dominick Argento, Paul Fetler and Eric Stokes.

Schelle's music has been performed by over 200 orchestras and professional chamber ensembles across the US and abroad including the Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Albany (NY) Symphony, Springfield (Mass) Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony Chamber Series, the Kansas City Symphony, the Greenwich (CT) Chorus and Orchestra, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Kammerorkester Basel (Switzerland), Czestochowa Philharmonic (Poland), Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional (Costa Rica), Vale of Glamorgan Music Festival (Cardiff, Wales), the 2007 Firenza New Music Festival (Italy), XTET (Los Angeles), ISIS (Austin, TX), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and others. Currently, a new work commissioned for the Urban Quartet (Phoenix) [2].

Schelle is the author of the 1999 film music book, The Score (Silman-James Press, Los Angeles).[3]

Schelle's 2002 Wright Flight piano concerto (recorded on Albany Records [4] with the Dayton Philharmonic, Andrew Russo, piano) was 'on tour' throughout China in January 2010 for multiple performances with the South Shore Orchestra (Chicago) in Shanghai, Beijing, Ningbo and Hangzhou.

Schelle has received composition grants and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Arts Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Welsh Arts Council (Cardiff), Arts Midwest, the Great Lakes Arts Alliance, the American Pianists Association and many other organizations.

In 2005/2006, funded by a grant from the American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (NYC), Schelle was Composer in Residence for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony organization [5], writing a new work for each of the five AYS orchestras. All five works were premiered in May 2006, at Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico.

In 2008/09. a generous Individual Artist Renewal Grant from the Arts Council of Indianapolis allowed Schelle to work with the legendary avant garde Japanese composer Hifumi Shimoyama (b. 1930) infoseek.co.jp in Tokyo.

Schelle has been the featured Guest Composer at numerous universities and new music festivals across the US and abroad, and was recently (2009) Composer in Residence at Nagoya Imperial University (Japan). 2010 finds Schelle as Composer in Residence at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan) for the Decay and Regeneration in the Arts international symposium, hosted by Nagoya Professor Fujii.

A recently commissioned work based on the writing of Vladimir Nabokov was premiered on 25 December 2009 with the Saint Petersburg Chamber Phiharmonic, Julia Kogan, soprano. It is being recorded for international commercial release in 2010.

Schelle is Composer in Residence and Founder/Director of the notorious JCFA Composers Orchestra (new music ensemble) at the School of Music, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA. [6]

Schelle's daughter, Katie, is an interior designer with Mitchell Studios in New Haven, CT. His son, Patrick, M.S.W. from NYU, is a social worker in New York City, Brooklyn and The Bronx.

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	In 2008/09. a generous ''Individual Artist Renewal Grant'' from the Arts Council of Indianapolis allowed Schelle to work with the legendary avant garde Japanese composer Hifumi Shimoyama (b. 1930) [http://www.shimoyama123.web.infoseek.co.jp/] in Tokyo.		In 2008/09. a generous ''Individual Artist Renewal Grant'' from the Arts Council of Indianapolis allowed Schelle to work with the legendary avant garde Japanese composer Hifumi Shimoyama (b. 1930) [http://www.shimoyama123.web.'''infoseek'''.co.jp] in Tokyo.