New York Foundation for the Arts Shelley Pinz Professional Development Grant

Introducing | Shelley Pinz Grant Recipients

NYFA is delighted to congratulate the recipients of the 2017 Shelley Pinz Professional Development Grants!

The Shelley Pinz Professional Development Grants are awarded to NYFA-affiliated audio and music composers who have received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, were project directors of a fiscally sponsored project or system, and/or participated in the Immigrant Artist Program. With diverse backgrounds in experimental music, moving-picture show scores, and installations, the following grouping of composers received grants to take advantage of unique opportunities to continue to evolve their artistic practices.

John Morton (Sponsored Project, Swain in Music Limerick, '02, '06)

Equally a composer, installation, and audio creative person, John Morton has been creating big-calibration, site-specific installations for the past 10 years. Encouraging public participation, his permanent installation in downtown Yonkers,Sound Bridge, invites visitors to interact and dispense sound constructed with field recordings, and is deputed by the Hudson River Museum.

With the Shelley Pinz Grant, John Morton will take on studies with creative programmer and electronic musician, Mike Sperone. Sperone has previously worked with Morton on Audio Bridge and will exist teaching the grantee how to employ Pure Data in time to come projects and his newest sound twelve-aqueduct installation, Fever Songs. Fever Songs is currentlya NYFA fiscally sponsored project and volition be exhibited at ODETTA Gallery in Brooklyn in 2018.

Mihoko Suzuki (Beau in Music/Sound '13)

Mihoko Suzuki is a multi-disciplinary composer, conceiving of works for the opera, ballet, flick, and sound-art installations. Mihoko'southward dramatic works investigate the circuitous and oft contradictory relationship between humans and the natural world. In 2011, Mihoko created a musical setting of Alice Walker'south poem We Take  Beautiful Mother for the the memorial ceremony of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

The setting, And the Hummingbird Says…, is an interlinked song-cycle based on the words and life of Maathai and five classical Buddhist Japanese elements. The Shelley Pinz Grant will help to produce and principal an audio CD recording for both publicity and distribution. And the Hummingbird Says… is planned to be performed beyond the world, including places similar New York, London, and Kenya.

Qasim Naqvi (Fellow in Music/Sound '16)

Qasim Naqvi is a drummer; composer for moving picture, trip the light fantastic toe, theater, and bedroom ensembles; and a member of the group Dawn of Midi. His soundtracks and arrangements take appeared on HBO, NBC, PBS, The Tribeca Film Festival, and The New York Times. He has received fellowships and awards from Chamber Music America, Harvest Works, and Art OMI.

Qasim is currently underway with a new recording project called Soundtracks (working title). Soundtracks is comprised of two analog electronic scores created for Naeem Moumeen'southward films, Tripoli Cancelled and Two Meetings and a Funeral, which were exhibited at dOCUMENTA 14 in Athens and Kassel. The Shelley Pinz grant will aid cover finishing expenses, including the album'southward final mixing.

Sarah Hennies (Swain in Music/Sound '13)

A composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, NY, Sarah Hennies'due south often grueling, endurance-based work is a destructive examination of psychoacoustics, queer identity, and expressionistic absurdity. Her work has been presented in many contexts, including Café Oto in London, cave12 in Geneva, and Festival Cable in Nantes.

Sarah's new major work, Contralto, will exist premiered at Result Project Room in New York Urban center. Contralto, a piece that exists between the spaces of abstruse experimental music and documentary, volition feature transgender women speaking, singing, and performing vocal exercises forth with operation of various sound-making actions using "non-musical" instruments. The Shelley Pinz Grant will assist in travel fees for musicians who will be carrying the prove at Issue Project Room.

Satoshi Kanazawa (Fellow in Music/Sound '13)

A composer of classical and gimmicky music, Satoshi Kanazawa creates compositions that encompasses styles from tonal music to atonalism. He won the Thou Prize in The 2nd Lin Yao Ji International Competition in 2014 and the Hirosaki Sakurano Sono Composition Competition in 2015.

For Wind of Tsugaru at Carnegie Hall in 2018-2019, Satoshi volition be composing original music featuring traditional Japanese instruments such equally the Tsagaru-bue and Tsugaru shamisen. As this projection volition crave inquiry to understand the instruments' unique annotation system, the Shelley Pinz Grant volition help fund his travel costs to Nihon to learn more than about them from bamboo flute master, Mr. Bunta Sato.

The NYSCA/NYFA Creative person Fellowship Programme awards $7,000 grants to individual artists living and working in New York State. Click here to learn more most previous and current NYFA fellows and future award cycles.

NYFA'southward Fiscal Sponsorship program enhances the fundraising capabilities of private artists and emerging arts organizations. Its adjacent quarterly no-fee application deadline is September 30. Click here to learn more about the program, currently fiscally sponsored projects, and to apply.

The Immigrant Artist Mentoring Programme pairs immigrant artists from all disciplines with artist mentors who guide them to achieve specific goals and provide a broader access to the New York cultural world through an exchange of ideas, resources, and experiences. Click here to learn more about the program.

Images from superlative to lesser: Josephine Halvorson (Fellow in Painting 'x), Organ, 2009, oil on linen; John Morton, Photo Credit: unknown; Mihoko Suzuki, Photo Credit: Mick Cantarella; Qasim Naqvi, Photo Credit: Emily Keegin; Sarah Hennies, Photograph Credit: Mara Baldwin; Satoshi Kanazawa, Photo Credit: unknown.

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