Nina C. Young composer

New York born violinist, composer, and audio engineer, Nina C. Young is currently a Masters candidate in Music Composition at McGill University's Schulich School of Music holding a research assistantship in the Expanded Musical Practice group at CIRMMT and working as a studio assistant and teaching assistant in the McGill Digital Composition Studio. She works with both acoustic and electronic music and is concentrating on ways of merging the two worlds together. Her past two commissions from McGill University include one for two pianos and electronics and one for the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble incorporating live electronics. Her latest composition Kolokol for two pianos and electronics was selected as a 2010 BMI Student Composer Awards Winner. She received undergraduate degrees in Music and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she held a research assistantship at the MIT Media Lab in Tod Machover's Hyperinstruments group. Nina C. Young has received performances of her music in the United States, Canada, France, and Brazil and has participated in festivals including the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Domaine Forget, European American Musical Alliance at the Ecole Normale in Paris, and the US State Department's Fusion Arts Exchange.