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...

Encompassed in surreal fog and the dark void of Albert Taylor Theater , surrounded by ghouls, strangely familiar characters, and faux politicians donning masks as unreal as their human counterparts, the patrons of the annual Millikin University Percussion Ensemble Halloween Concert experienced a Halloween extravaganza like no other. Musicians donning costumes both dastardly and deeply disturbing, performed an eclectic mix of works from Dr. Jeremy Brunk’s exceptional rhythmic study, " Dominican Cycles ", to works involving balloons and knives and lighters, and Sabrina Pena Young's eerie intermedia work, virelaan . Intermixed within outstanding percussion performances were interludes beckoning back to familiar horror villians such as the Joker and Saw's John Kramer. The Annual Halloween Concert is the brain child of Brian Justison , Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Percussion Studies at Millikin University. Justison directed the entire production, from th...