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PULLMAN - Greg Yasinitsky a WSU Regents Professor in music, received double honors recently, including selection as a 2009 Artist Trust Fellowship Award in Music, and having one of his compositions, “By Chance,” chosen for inclusion in the “60×60 International Mix” series of concerts.
Artist Trust Fellowship
Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines. Since 1987 Artist Trust Fellowship awards have recognized Washington State artists’ exceptional talent and demonstrated ability, professional achievement and continuing dedication to an artistic discipline.
Fellowship recipients receive an unrestricted cash award. This year 382 Fellowship applications from artists working in music, media and literary Arts around the state were received.
Yasinitsky was one of three musicians to receive Artist Trust Fellowships. Yasinitsky is also the winner of a 2009-2010 ASCAPLUS Award for Composition from ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAPLUS is an awards program that provides recognition to established writers whose main activity is outside of broadcast media and whose catalogs have prestige value.
Yasinitsky joined the WSU faculty in 1982. He is coordinator of jazz studies and teaches saxophone and composition.
Composition gets intn’l play
In addition to the fellowship, Yasinitsky will have his composition “By Chance” performed internationally as part of the “60×60 International Mix” series of concerts.
Composers for the 60×60 series are selected by means of a juried, international selection process. In 2008, 60×60 received over 1,000 submitted compositions. The International Mix was premiered in Columbus, Ohio on Oct. 3 and will receive additional performances in the US in New York City, San Francisco, St Louis, Central Michigan University, Los Angeles Harbor College, Kansas City, and the New Music Juke Joint in Mississippi, and internationally in Strasbourg, France and Limerick, Ireland.
Many of these concerts will include 60 one-minute dances by different choreographers; others will include video. A 60×60 concert contains 60 works from 60 different composers. Each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration sequenced together to create a one hour performance. Highlighting the work of a great many composers, 60×60 testifies to the vibrancy of contemporary composition by presenting the diverse array of styles, aesthetics and techniques being used today. The 60×60 International Mix will also be released on CD on the Vox Novus label.
