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55 Tioga St. Buffalo, NY 14216 SPenaYoung@gmail.com (270) 906 - 9254 www.sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com
Award-winning composer and multimedia artist with a passionate commitment to education, scholarly pursuits, and technology. Dedicated to helping students succeed and stay motivated. Innovative and energetic, with a creative hands-on approach to arts education. Specialization in music, film/multimedia, technology, social media/marketing, arts education, and world music with over fifteen years of experience. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 2005 MASTERS OF MUSIC IN MUSIC TECHNOLOGY Florida International University 2001 BACHELORS OF MUSIC IN COMPOSITION, cum laude University of South Florida SELECT PROJECTS 2015 THE VILLAGE Composer, UK web opera collaboration. Interactive animated virtual musical world. http://www.thevillageopera.com/ 2015 SINGULARITY Director/Animator/Composer, futurist short film. Premiered in NYC and Buffalo as part of the NYC Circuit Bridges series. 2014 TED TALK Speaker, TED Talk on virtual opera, social media, and Internet collaboration as a means of new artistic expression at TEDxBuffalo. 2014 URBAN NIGHT: SOUNDS Director/Animator/Composer, jazz web concert for International Alliance for Women in Music 2015 Conference. 2014 DESTINY: EONDWYR Composer, For Malletkat/Comic Book panels for Dr. Kurt Gartner, Kansas State University. Inspired by video gameplay. 2013 LIBERTARIA: THE VIRTUAL OPERA Director, Composer, Animator “Groundbreaking” film created through Internet collaboration, social media. 2012 MONICA Film composer, Award-winning animated film by Rob Cabrera. Premired Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. 2011 CREATION ORATORIO Composer, IAWM New Genre Prize Winner. Multimedia oratorio for Women’s Choir, Afro-Cuban drumming. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001-Present COMPOSER/FILMMAKER Performances by the Florida Orchestra, Kansas State University Percussion Ensemble, Millikin University Women’s Chorus, Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, and other clients. Concerts/screenings at Beijing Conservatory, Australasian Computer Music Conference, Turkey’s Cinema for Peace, International Computer Music Conference, Miramax’s Project Greenlight, New York International Independent Film Festival, Primera en la Habana X, Art Basil Miami, Holland Animation Film Festival, Florida International Independent Film Festival. 2012-Present SPEAKER Speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2014, Hartford Women Composers Festival, Future of Music Symposium, International Alliance for Women in Music Conference 2015, and other venues on music technology, women in music, social media, music business. 2010-Present HUMANITIES INSTRUCTOR University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ (Online Instruction) Introduction to Music History, Media in American Culture and SME (Subject Matter Expert in Music) Currently teaches courses in Music History and Media in American Society. SME for ARTS 340CA “Exploration of Western Classical Music”. Implements new technologies in the online classroom, motivates students, creates an engaging challenging classroom environment. 2009-2011 MUSIC TECHNOLOGY PROFESSOR Murray State University, KY Introduction to Music Synthesis, Music Theory II, Music Theory IV, Music History, Directed Study (Commercial Music/Film Music) Restructured antiquated program by implementing new technologies, hands-on projects like writing film scores and engaging multimedia compositions, and preparing students for their career. Challenged students to excel in their expertise, including film scoring, commercial music, and music business. 2005-2008 ArtREACH PROGRAM, Young at Arts Children’s Museum, Davie, Florida Award-winning Arts program for homeless students Directed and taught music, art, theater, and film to a challenging urban population of at-risk youths from the shelter population. Implemented engaging yearlong curriculum in visual and performing arts catered to the unique needs of the inner city youth. Managed crises and behavioral issues unique to this population. In the 2007-2008 academic year directed entire program, implementing an engaging and challenging curriculum, working as a liaison between the Broward County School Board, case managers, parents, and museum director of the Young at Art Children’s Museum. 2005 MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER, Deep Listening Institute, NY Intern for composer Pauline Oliveros. Edited the DVD project Njinga The Queen-King: The Return of a Warrior, assistant camera for Pauline Oliveros’ first telematic performance between RPI, Mills, and France, recorded Deep Listening Gallery events, managed video/sound for events. 2004 MUSIC TECHNOLOGY PROFESSOR Florida International University Introduction to MIDI Technology Taught basics of MIDI Technology, web design, and composition to undergraduate and graduate students. UNIVERSITY COURSE EXPERIENCE MUS 313 Introduction to Music Synthesis This course emphasizes a study of the concepts and selected applications of computer music in a digital music studio. Course content includes computer techniques, music sequencing, sound design, sound sampling, and the use of MIDI. One or more original compositions using the technology will be performed during the semester. (NOTE: Section 2 mastered Intermediate techniques in the studio, then advanced to Directed Study). Introduction to MIDI Technology (Undergraduate/Graduate/FIU) Students learn music notation, sequencing, basic web use and design. Programs such as Finale and a basic Digital Audio Workstation are taught to cover basic music technology skills. Basic MIDI concepts are covered. Directed Study (Advanced Sound Synthesis, Film Music, Multimedia Composition/MSU) Independent work in areas of sound synthesis, music production, recording, film music, and composition designed to meet the needs and interests of individual students. HUM 186 Media Influences on American Culture (online) The course provides an introduction to the most prominent forms of media the influence and impact social, business, political, and popular culture in contemporary America. It explores the unique aspects of each medium as well as interactions across various media that combine to create rich environments for information sharing, entertainment, business, and social interaction in the United States and around the world. MUS 173 Music Theory II A continuation of MUS 170 emphasizing inversions of triads, the dominant-seventh chord, non-harmonic tones, and elementary modulations through part-writing, composition, and analysis with and without figured bass. MUS 273 Music Theory IV A continuation of MUS 270, emphasizing the Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, complex modulations, and key schemes, extreme chromaticism, and an introduction to 20th century composition and analysis. MUS 105 Introduction to Music History Understanding and appreciation of music for the beginner. Designed to acquaint the student with the place music holds in heritage through studying and listening to great musical works; to acquaint the student with composers and the influence of history on their compositions; and to create the ability to understand and enjoy music in the world around us. ARTS 340 Exploration in Western Classical Music (online) This course will introduce students to Western European music from the Baroque period through the beginning of the 20th century. The course will emphasize the history, musical development, and accomplishments of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and early 20th century periods in music, Students will learn to recognized form, style, texture, and characteristics of each period by studying a variety of composers and the representative masterpieces of each period. SELECT PRESS, PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 2015 Futurist Music Anthology:The Electroacoustic Mind of Sabrina Pena Young Album 2015 Moviestorm gets recognition at TEDx Talk by Libertaria Creator Sabrina Pena Young, Moviestorm.com 2014 TED Talk Singing Geneticists and EPIC Virtual Machinima Opera, TEDx Buffalo 2014 Opera for a New Generation, Faculty Matters Magazine 2014 Moviestorm Case Study: Libertaria, UK-Based Moviestorm 2014 Libertaria: The story behind the virtual opera, UK Moviestorm.com 2014 Virtual Opera Production: The Making of Libertaria Part 3, IAWM Music Journal 2014 Creation Electronica, Album 2014 Unravelling Music: Classic Chords Easy Ear Training, UK 2014 TedxBuffalo Announces Speakers for 2014 Event, Buffalo Rising 2013 Unravelling Music: Popular Progressions Album Published by Easy Ear Training 2013 Libertaria Soundtrack (Special Edition) Album 2013 South Florida Music Round-Up, Palm Beach Arts Paper 2013 All-Animated ‘virtual opera’ to premier in Lake Worth, Palm Beach Arts Paper 2013 5 Questions to Sabrina Pena Young on her virtual opera “Libertaria”, I Care If You Listen: A Digital Magazine 2013 Sabrina Pena Young’s Virtual Opera and Twenty-First Century Collaboration, Percussive Notes 2013 Virtual Opera Production: The Making of Libertaria Part 2, IAWM Music Journal 2013 Virtual Opera Production: The Making of Libertaria Part 1, IAWM Music Journal 2012 The Compositional Collective: Crowdsourcing and Collaboration in the Digital Age New Music Box Fall 2012 2012 Women in Sound Art: 7 Musical Micro-Portraits ,TERZ Magazine 2012 Tech Nerds: Contemporary Composition in the Digital Age, Future of Music Symposium, Oklahoma Composer’s Association 2011 Libertaria, Panpipes 2010 Unravelling Music: Introducing Intervals Published by Easy Ear Training, UK 2009 The Feminine Musique': Multimedia and Women Today (book) 2009 Soundcrawl Mainstage: Critic’s Choice, SoundCrawl, Nashville, TN 2009 Soundcrawl: Festival in a Box, SoundCrawl, Nashville, TN 2008 Origins Solo Electroacoustic Album 2008 "Intermedia: Redefining American Music at the Turn of the Third Millennium" Kapralova Society Journal 2008 Vox Novus International Mix 60x60 2006 Cinema for Peace 2003 DVD Istanbul, Turkey 2006 "US vs. Them: The Creation of a Digital Audiovisual Landscape" Percussive Notes 2002 CD Release Conversations wit de Churen 2: All My Churen Main Title/Score SELECT LIST OF WORKS/PERFORMANCES (ALPHABETICAL) Agape' (marimba quartet) Contemporary Music Festival (Tampa), University of South Florida Marimba Ensemble, 2000 University of South Florida Percussion Concert, 2000 Americana (film score), 2012, Mount Airy Productions, directed by Sean Fleck American Recall (tape), 2011 New Horizons Festival, 2014 60x60 Athena Mix at the Athena Music Festival, Murray State, 2011 60x60 International Mix 2010 American Spam (tape), 2015 60x60 Wave Farm Mix, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2015 60x60 Wave Farm Mix, WGXC 90.7FM, Brooklyn, 2015
Urban Night: Sounds, IAWM Congress on Women in Music, 2015 Unravelling Music: Popular Progressions, 2013, Easy Ear Training
Zlatko Cosic Video Collaboration, Gavle, Sweden, 2009 Zlatko Cosic Video Collaboration, Gavle, Sweden, 2008 Elektra Special, French Television Broadcast, TNA, 2008 Stimulatania Art Gallery, Strasbourg, France, 2008 CSUF Annual New Music Festival, CSU Fresno, CA, 2008 60x60 Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, 2008 Zlatko Cosic Video Collaboration, Duquesne Univ., PA, 2008 60x60 Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY 2008 60x60 University of Central Florida, FL 2007 Vox Novus 60x60 International Mix, NY, NY 2007 Collective: Unconscious New York, New York, 2007 EuCuE, Concordia Univerisity Montreal, Quebec, 2007 Arts NOW Series Raleigh, North Carolina, 2007 Danse' Amoebe (supercollider) Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 Art@Radio, University of Maryland, 2004 Florida International University Student Composer Recital 2003 IEEE and Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) conference, 2003 Danza de la Macabre (orchestra miniature), 2009, Vox Novus 60x60 Orchestra Project 2011 Desert Run (tape), 2010, Album Unravelling Music: Introducing Intervals A Doll's Wish (string orchestra), Reading by the University of South Florida Orchestra, Tampa, Florida1998 Eight Children's Songs (children's choir), Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida, 2001 Elton’s Journey (pop), Unravelling Music Album 3, 2013 (Release TBD) Endless Tunnel (multi-percussion solo) Arts and Oppression, University of South Florida Honors Installation, 1999 Sigma Alpha Iota American Musicale (Delta Chi), 1999 Enigma (video/score) Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 Australasian Computer Music Conference (Australia), 2005 SUNY Remix Sound Series, 2005 University of Texas Gamma UT Conference, 2005 X International Electroacoustic Music Festival "Primavera en la Habana 2004" (Cuba), 2004 EARS: Electroacoustic and Research Society Inaugural Video Concert (Florida International University), 2004 International Computer Music Conference, 2004 Eva Sleeps Tonight (tape), 2010, Easy Ear Training.com ETASL (tape/performance art) SYCOM Concert, Tampa, Florida, 2001 Hispanic Heritage Festival, University of South Florida, 2000 Fallen (tape) 2010, Album Unravelling Music: Introducing Intervals Final Transmission, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 Flower in the Sidewalk (director/producer) Funded by a grant from the University of South Florida Urban arts extravaganza of forty artists, 2001 A Glass of Water Lights the World (violincello) Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, Florida, 2003 Spotlight on Women Composers, Boston, 2010 Gray Woman of the Glade (percussion, tape), CCHS Time Capsule, Davie, Florida, 1995 Horizon (full orchestra) Contemporary Music Festival (Tampa), Florida Orchestra Commissioned by Sigma Alpha Iota (Delta Chi Chapter), 2000 Hot Sauce (Malletkat, machinima animation) 2015, Urban Night: Sounds, IAWM Congress 2015 Halloween Horror 3000 (HH3K) (tape) 2012, Easy Ear Training Halloween Track Home Grits (country), Unravelling Music: Popular Progressions, 2013, Easy Ear Training Innermost Thoughts of the Distorted Psyche (video/score) Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival 2007 Rochester, NY 2007 Athena Music Festival Murray State University, KY, 2007 SEAMUS National Conference Beall Micro Hall, Eugene, Oregon, 2006 IAWM International Congress Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, Florida, 2006 Women and Identity Festival, Deep Listening Institute New York, 2005 Juan Si Remix (Music Video of Juan Si Gonzalez's Patriot Games), International New Media Festival Miami, Florida, 2007 Lady Robotika (dance), Unravelling Music Album 3, 2013 (Release 2015) Libertaria: The Virtual Opera (animated opera), 2013 Science fiction animated opera starring an international cast. Includes Metal Ink, Baby Machine, Pilar of the Underground, Lullaby, Lost Confession, Lonely Mother's Cry, Absolution and many other operatic numbers for SATB, virtual choirs, tape, animation. 3rd Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts, 2015 Urban Night: Sounds, Rebellion, IAWM 2015 Congress on Women in Music Women’s Work Music Video Competition, 2014 TEDxBuffalo 2014 (presentation), 2014 Holland Animation Festival, 2014 Buffalo State, Presentation, 2014 Women in the Arts Festival Buffalo, NY, 2014 Online screenings, continuous, 2013-present Women Composer’s Festival of Hartford (presentation), 2013 University of Maryland, Opera Presentation, Anna Rubin, 2013 Buffalo State Composer Talk, 2013 Moviestorm, 2013 Classical Concerts at Calvary, World Premier, 2013 Future of Music Symposium, Opera Presentation, 2012 Future of Choirs Workshop, Perry R. Cook, 2012
Originally part of the Creation Oratorio Association of Dominican Classical Artists, (Strings,pno, voice) 2012 Future of Music Symposium (tape/video), 2012 Looking Glass I (video, score) Score only, SoundCrawl: Mainstage Critic's Choice (CD) Score only, SoundCrawl:Festival in a Box (CD) Score only, Nashville's First SoundCrawl 2009 Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 "Imagine" Exhibition, Atlas Gallery, Miami, Florida 2007 Lonely Mother’s Cry (soprano/pno/strings) 2012, Association of Dominican Classical Artists Lullaby (composite video/score) Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 University of South Florida Student Film and Video Association Annual Competition, First in Experimental Video, 2001 (w/performance art), University of South Florida Electronic Music Club Concert, 2001 (score only), Art@Radio, University of Maryland, 2004 Mermaid Song (tape), 2010, Easy Ear Training.com Metamorph (synthesizer, video, tape) Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 MNEO (video; music by Seth Keith) IEEE and Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) conference, 2003 Millieval (French Horn), Performed by Frank Kalan, Tampa, Florida, 1999 Monica (Film Score), Directed by Rob Cabrera, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2012 Morgana (tape) Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 Mr. PotatoHead's Debut (tape) Art@Radio, University of Maryland, 2004 "The Mysterious Monsters" (director, score) Video Project with ArtREACH, arts program for homeless children Young at Art Children's Museum, 2005 On the Edge of Time (for an unspecified number of sound producers) Palm Beach Atlantic Percussion Concert, Florida, 1997 Origins (debut solo electroacoustic album), 2008 Origins (video, score), 2008 Title track, Origins Album, CD Baby and i-Tunes, 2008 Score only, Women Composers Spotlight, 2010 Pink Slips and Baby Shoes (folk ballad), Unravelling Music Album 3, 2013 (Release TBD) Pleasant Morning (pop), Unravelling Music: Popular Progressions, 2013, Easy Ear Training Portrait of Urban Life (video/score) Art Miami, Miami, Florida, 2007 IEEE and Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) conference, 2003 Psychosis I: Dissociation (CG Animation/Score) Music Festival Austin, Texas 2007 Zero Gravity Exhibition, Art Basil, Miami 2006 REQUIEM (video/score) 2008 Beijing Congress on Women in Music Beijing Conservatory, China Revolution Devolution (tape), 2010 Urban Night: Sounds, IAWM Congress, 2015 Wkms, Public Radio Station. 2010
Includes works Baby Blues, Revolution Devolution, Hot Sauce, and Rebellion Untitled Walk #3 Installation (tape, performance art) Multimedia collaboration, Florida International University, 2004 US vs. Them (percussion ensemble, video, tape, performance art) Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 Millikin State University Percussion Ensemble, Albert Taylor Theater, Illinois 2008 Article "US vs. Them: The Creation of a Digital Audiovisual Landscape" (Percussive Notes), 2006 Kansas State University Percussion Ensemble, McCain Auditorium 2005 Valley of the Shadow (stop motion animation/score) Score only, Origins album, CD Baby, 2008 EARS: Electroacoustic and Research Society Inaugural Video Concert (Florida International University), 2004 Virelaan (Percussion Ensemble, Handbell Choir, Video, Tape) ercussion Ensemble, 09 Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, Albert Taylor Theater, 2012 Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, Albert Taylor Theater, 2011 Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, Albert Taylor Theater, 2008 "Voices of the Churen" (film score, main title) Directed by Kalup Linzy, New York International Independent Film Festival, NY 2002 CD Release Conversations wit de Churen 2: All My Churen, R-4U Productions, 2002 "The War" (film score) Finalist in Miramax Project Greenlight Competition, 2002 Warrior Poet (symphonic band) Contemporary Music Festival (Tampa), University of South Florida Symphonic Band, 2000 WKMS Radio (jingles) WKMS NPR Radio Station in Western Kentucky, 2009 World Goes Round and Round, Wedding Song (ballad, voice, piano, animation) Urban Night: Sounds, IAWM Congress on Women in Music, 2015 World Order #1 (dance mix) Origins Album, CD Baby, 2008 Art@Radio, University of Maryland, 2004 World Order #2 (video/score) DVD Compilation Release of Cinema for Peace 2003 Istanbul, Turkey, 2006 Cinema for Peace (Turkey), 2003 IEEE and Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) conference, 2003 World Order #4 (cello, narrator, percussion, performance artists, piano, tape, video) Florida International University New Music Ensemble Concert, Florida International New Music Ensemble, 2004 Florida International University Student Composer Concert, Florida International New Music Ensemble, 2004 World Order #5 (percussion ensemble, video, tape) University of Northern Colorado, 2009 Angel Moving Image Festival, London 2009 Murray State University New Music Concert, 2009 Feminist Theory and Music Conference 2009 at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro 2009 Kansas State University Percussion Ensemble 2008 Recipient of American Music Center CAP Grant 2008 Directory: 2015 2015 -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 2015 -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d 2015 -> Police Militarization 2015 -> Medical Radiography Program 2015 -> 2015 ihbb championships: hs history Bowl Round 4 – Prelims First Quarter 2015 -> Desk review yemen 2015 -> Wrtp/big step · 3841 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, wi 53208 2015 -> 1. naclo 2015 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 December 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Volume Ⅴ (2015) On The 2015 China Victory Day Parade Download 85.49 Kb. Share with your friends:
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