COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

New Music Miami Song Cycle Premier - Composer Talk - Sabrina Pena Young Award-winning Cuban American Composer Sabrina Pena Young discusses the premiere of her Libertaria Song Cycle. New Music Miami Festival in Miami Beach. Hosted by Florida International University and Dr. Orlando Garcia.

CINTAS Foundation Announces 2018-19 Fellows in  Architecture & Design, Music Composition and Visual Arts Miami, October 2018 – CINTAS Foundation Board of Directors made the announcement at the annual Awards Ceremony during a special reception held October 10th at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. The 2018-19 Fellowships were presented to: CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Architecture & Design Javier Galindo CINTAS Foundation Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition Sabrina Peña Young CINTAS-Knight Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts Tomás Esson In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Juan A. Martínez, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art & Art History at Florida International University for his contributions to Cuban art and culture. It marks the first time that CINTAS has honored and recognized an academic in the field. The reception, with sponsorships from Bacardi as well as El Carajo restaurant, was a...

Our virtual lives have a tendency to live on. Today my constant social networking stream, which gives me the latest on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn in a single overflowing column in my browser popped up a smiley face from artist Vanessa Monokian to photographer Fred Karrenberg. I don't know why I decided to click on this. I really don't. Normally the stream goes by unread like the running stock market numbers at the bottom of the nightly news show. But I decided to click on the smiley face. It's been years since I have contacted anyone from my one year studying for an MFA in New Media at Florida International University . I loved the artists and my classmates. I loved the classes and the opportunity to show my video art in Miami. But bills added up and a second MFA seemed less important than taking care of finances. I remember Fred as the hyperintellegent voice of reason, a genius professor that decided to translate his love of detail into gorgeous, tediou...

ENIGMA was the first multimedia piece I created using the rendering features of Final Cut Pro to create animation. The electronic music composed was a combination of sound synthesis using Supercollider , distorting my voice through various audio software, SoundHack , and sounds created using the tar, a hand drum. I altered the sound clips for ENIGMA by dramatically slowing the speed, creating undulating panning patterns, and adding delays and reverb, to create a constant, slowly morphing musical composition. ENIGMA has traveled extensively, with screenings in Australia, Cuba, and throughout the United States, with thousands of hits on the net through You Tube. I have to give a special thanks to Dr. Kristine H. Burns at Florida International University for her painstaking help and advice with creating ENIGMA.