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

Movement 2 "Light" from the multimedia oratorio "Creation". Premiered April 2010 by the Millikin University Women's Chorus under the direction of esteemed conductor Michael Engelhardt. It has been one busy summer. After a terrific performance of my multimedia oratorio "Creation" at Millikin University at the end of the spring semester by the University Women's Chorale, I completed an album for Easy Ear Training.com which will be coming out later this year. Right now I am composing a film score and getting ready to put out an album of tape music from "Creation" as well as finally getting around to publishing a video compilation of my best animated works, like Enigma, World Order #5, Innermost Thoughts of the Distorted Psyche', and the 3D animation from Creation. I continue writing for the IAWM Blog, Easy Ear Training.com, AC, and soon Yahoo. Gearing up for the new semester at Murray State, where I will be teaching Music Synthesis. This...

World Order #5 has been selected to be screened at the Angel Moving Festival in London , England in October 2009. The score for Looking Glass will be part of Nashville's SoundCrawl in October 2009. The multimedia oratorio, Creation , commissioned by the Millikin University Women's Chorus and conducted by talented director Michael Engelhardt, will begin rehearsals this fall for the world premier in Spring 2010. Creation is a multimedia large-scale choral work, incorporate Millikin University's 60 member Women's Chorus, a full percussion ensemble, synthesizer, electronic tape, and animated 3D video. The text is in three languages - Swahili, Spanish, and English - and is derived from the creation story in Genesis, as well as excerpts from Revelation and Psalm 139. Meant to be a juxtaposition of procreation and the creation story, the Creation incorporates a musical marriage between electronics and traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms. I also recently published The Feminine M...

This past academic year has been a busy one, with my first semester teaching Music Synthesis and Music Theory at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Recent projects include a commission from Millikin State University to compose an original oratorio for their sixty member women's chorus group, video, tape, electronic piano, and percussion. The Women's Chorus is directed by Michael Engelhardt. The oratorio is an audio visual comparison between the creation and the miracle of procreation (from conception to birth). Presented in several movements, the oratorio borrows text from Genesis, Psalms, and Revelation in the languages of English, Spanish, and Swahili. Musically, the work delves into a hybrid of traditional African rhythms and electronic synthesis. The 3D animation, created with Poser, Bryce, and Final Cut, combines familiar imagery of fetal development with the seven days of creation. The oratorio finishes with a massive chorus of joy. WKMS, the local public radio ...