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

Symphony Space in New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) NYWC Music News –   Beata Moon , Victoria Bond , Faye-Ellen Silverman Duo Montagnard Seed Money Grant concert  April 15, 2016 at 7:30pm Leonard Nimoy Thalia @ Symphony Space Duo Montagnard: Matthew Slotkin guitar; Joseph Murphy saxophones, perform "Saxophone & Guitar Duos by New York City  Composers" Compositions by Beata Moon, Victoria Bond, Faye-Ellen Silverman, David Crowell, David Claman, Jonathan Elliott, Ingram Marshall, Perry Goldstein. Most of the composers will be in attendance! Leonard Nimoy Thalia @ Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, NYC Purchase tickets:  http://www. symphonyspace.org/event/8985/ Music/nyc-composers-by-duo- montagnard $20; Seniors, Students $15; Members $10; Children $5 www.duomontagnard.com

Young dons comic book makeup for Urban Night: Sounds Me, Myself, and I: The Music of S. Peña Young, Contemporary Composer I originally wrote this tongue-in-cheek article for gig asking for interviews with musicians . Seeing as I had little time to fulfill the deadline for that particular call, I opted to interview myself. I hope you enjoy this snarky music interview, and learn a little something, too. Or not. (written  July 13, 2009) Recently I had the opportunity to sit in front of a mirror and talk to S. Peña Young, contemporary electronic music composer , musician, and self-described “media artist” whose intriguingly bizarre music works have reached as far as Australia and as local as the i-Pod in your pocket. I opened up the interview with the usual professional rhetoric, “What the heck are you doing up at 3am?” Expecting some lofty answer often given to me by the classically trained musician who seems to believe that even a disdainful elitist sniff of an answe...

Help! I Married a Musician!  The Top 6 Signs that You married a Musician! Is your garage full of broken sound equipment and instruments? Does your spouse seem to speak a different language when hanging out with other music friends? Do you have more money invested in CDs than in stocks? Then read on!  When you first met your spouse, you may have been impressed with their music talent. How they played their instrument, sang, or wrote songs may have been part of their endearing qualities. Then you married your musician spouse, and you suddenly realized that entering into marriage with a musician involved more than simply nodding approvingly when he played that guitar lick at midnight or when she wrote that song that brought tears to her mother's eyes. When you marry a musician you are marrying a music addict -  someone who lives, breathes, and dies music. Music Marketing Secrets Video Here are the top six signs that you have indeed entered into marriage with...

After a few months off with the holidays, everything began to pick up again in February. Check out the latest music projects, opera updates, and concerts below! Libertaria: The Virtual Opera My contemporary opera Libertaria, an exciting animated sci-fi extavaganza about a runaway who tries to take down a genetics factory in 2139 AD, is in the middle of music production. The talented Libertaria cast, including leads Kate Sikora, Gretchen Suarez-Pena, and Gracia Gillund, has been busy like crazy recording the latest in musical mayhem from Libertaria . Recordings include excerpts from the epic march " Pilar of the Underground " and the slightly psychotic " Baby Machine " (bet you wonder what that is about?). Other cast members, including Jennifer Hermansky, who just finished her senior recital (go Jennifer!) and Matthew Meadows, who is buried in the snow during his Rango Project , are busy balancing opera fun with busy music lives. The animation and sound team from...