Nina C. Young

Young was born in Nyack, New York, and raised throughout Rockland County. In 2003 she graduated from Clarkstown High School North and then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study engineering and music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007 Young received two degrees from MIT: a B.S. in ocean engineering and a B.S. in music (studying primarily with Keeril Makan). She continued to work as a research assistant to Tod Machover at the MIT Media Lab. Young attended McGill University's Schulich School of Music from 2008 to 2011, receiving a M.Mus. She studied composition with Sean Ferguson, orchestration with Jean Lesage, and mixed music with Philippe Leroux. While in Montreal, Young worked as a research assistant in CIRMMT's (the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology) Expanded Musical Practice Project{{cite web|title=CIRMMT Expanded Musical Practice Project|url=http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/EMP}} and as a studio and teaching assistant at the McGill Digital Composition Studios.{{cite web|title=Nina C. Young (bio) 2010. McGill University|url=http://www.music.mcgill.ca/dcs/collaborators/N_Young.php}} Young holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, where she studied with Brad Garton, Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Fred Lerdahl.{{cite web|title=Columbia University Department of Music|date=22 April 2016 |url=http://music.columbia.edu/people/bios/nyoung}} At Columbia, she taught electronic music at the Computer Music Center (CMC).{{cite web|title=Columbia Computer Music Center people|date=7 December 2017 |url=http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/people/}}

Young is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.{{Cite web|url=https://civitella.org/fellow/nina-young/|title=Nina Young|date=2019-06-11|website=Civitella Ranieri|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-07}} Young has held residencies at Montalvo Arts Center,{{Cite web|url=http://montalvoarts.org/participants/nina_c_young/|title=Montalvo Arts Center {{!}} Nina C. Young|website=montalvoarts.org|access-date=2017-12-28}} the Civitella Ranieri Foundation,{{cite web|title=Civitella Ranieri Fellow in Music 2019|date=11 June 2019 |url=https://civitella.org/fellow/nina-young/}} and Arts Letters and Numbers.{{Cite news|url=http://www.artslettersandnumbers.com/session/creative-music-intensive-2018|title=Creative Music Intensive {{!}} Michael Harrison & Friends|work=arts letters & numbers|access-date=2017-12-28|language=en-US}} She previously taught at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin {{Cite web|title=Composer Nina C. Young to Join Butler School of Music Faculty {{!}} Butler School of Music - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://music.utexas.edu/news/composer-nina-c-young-join-butler-school-music-faculty|website=music.utexas.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-05-11}} and in the Arts Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.{{cite web|title=Rensselaer News - Musical Metamorphosis|url=https://news.rpi.edu/content/2017/04/07/musical-metamorphosis}} She has also been a visiting composer at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.{{Cite web|url=http://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/nina-c-young/|title=Nina C. Young {{!}} Peabody Institute|website=peabody.jhu.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-28}} In 2024, Young was appointed to the composition department faculty effective in the 2024-25 academic year at the Juilliard School in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Welcoming New Composition Faculty at The Juilliard School |url=https://www.juilliard.edu/news/169081/welcoming-new-composition-faculty |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=www.juilliard.edu}}

In addition to her contributions as an educator and composer, Young is a promoter of contemporary music. She served as general manager of the composer collective and publisher APNM (The Association for the Promotion of New Music) from 2011-2015{{cite web|title=Association for the Promotion of New Music website|date=29 November 2024 |url=http://apnmmusic.org/about.html}} and is Co-Artistic Director of the new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé.{{cite web|title=Ensemble Échappé official website|url=http://www.ensemble-echappe.com}} Young's music is published by Peermusic Classical.{{cite web|title=Peermusic Classical - Nina C. Young|url=http://www.peermusicclassical.com/composers/15882}}

Young's compositions explore the intersection of instrumental and electroacoustic music.

The Boston Globe has described Young's "John Cage-like boldness in experimentation" and "complex instrumental and electronic soundscapes".{{cite news|title=Boston Globe Rise Section - Nina C. Young: A Classical Girl in a Digital World|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/09/14/nina-young-classical-girl-digital-world/mUV21DPxrCv7d5y1q5tqhK/story.html}}

WQXR-FM's Q2 named Young one of the "10 Imagination-Grabbing, Trailblazing Artists of 2014" with contributor Brad Balliett writing, "Nina's music is constantly surprising, but at the same time, seems predestined. Every event seems so well-placed and inevitable that one is left with the feeling that the piece could have gone only the way she has it mapped out. Echoes of Stravinsky and something spectral give way to an intensely personal voice cut through with an ear for color and balance."{{cite web|title=WQXR Q2 10 Imagination-Grabbing, Trailblazing Artists of 2014|url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/10-imagination-grabbing-trailblazing-artists-2014/}}

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• Tread softly (2020) for orchestra
• Out of whose womb came the ice (2020) for baritone voice, orchestra, and electronics
• Agnosco Veteris... (2015) for orchestra
• Fata Morgana (2014) version for orchestra
• Remnants (2012) for orchestra
• Adieu (2009) for orchestra

• ...Vestigia Flammae (2014) for 15 musicians
• Fata Morgana (2014) for symphonic brass ensemble
• Traced Upon Cinders (2014) for 13 musicians
• Kashchei (2011) for 9 musicians and electronics

• Touch (2020) for piano four hands
• The Glow that Illuminates, the Glare that Obscures (2019) for brass quintet and electronics
• Tarnish (2019) for saxophone quartet
• Tête-à-Tête (2017) for two toy pianos, video projection, and electronics
• Fleeting Musings and Restless Paise: A Bassoon Pocket Concerto (2015) for solo bassoon and flute, viola, contrabass, and harp
• Rising Tide (2015) for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, and cello
• Spero Lucem (2015) for piano quartet
• l'heure bleue (2013) for flute and viola
• Meditation (2013) for violin and cello
• Memento Mori - Phase I (2013) for string quartet
• Etched in Sand (2013) for percussion sextet
• Tethered Within (2013) for alto flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello
• Waltz in Sepia (2013) a theatrical work for violin, viola, and electronics
• Remains (2012) for 2 pianos and 2 percussion
• Kolokol (2010) for 2 pianos and electronics

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• Mezzanine (2020) for piano
• There had been signs, surely (2020) for violin
• Heart.throb (2019) for solo snare drum and electronics
• If You are... a liar... (2016) for harp
• À bout de souffle (2016) for piano scordatura
• Ainsi soit-il (2016) for cello
• Temenos (2016) for violin and electronics
• Metal Works (2014) for piano and electronics
• Sun Propeller (2012) for violin and electronics (2017, for version for viola)
• Chatter (2011) for trumpet and electronics

• Swan Song (2018) for soprano and piano
• Prelude (2015) from Making Tellus: An Opera for the Anthropocene for bass voice, piano, and contrabass
• Out of whose womb came the ice, Parts 1&2 (2017, 2020) for baritone voice, orchestra, and electronics
• Void (2015) for soprano, viola, and piano
• Not Waving But Drowning (2009) for viola, piano and mixed choir

• drink rain (2021)
• present perfect (2020)
• Torsion Series (2019)
• Fool's paradise 2.0 (2019)
• Fool's paradise (2018)
• Sol (2016)
• Mark As Unsent (2015)
• Bayu-bayu (2011)
• Incubus (2010)

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• 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition{{cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Announcement 2021|url=https://www.gf.org/announcement-2021/}}
• 2015 Koussevitsky Music Foundation Commission{{cite web|title=The Koussevitzky Music Foundation 2015 Commission Winners|url=http://www.koussevitzky.org/news.html}}
• 2015 Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, Italy
• 2015 American Composers Forum National Composition Contest, wild Up ensemble commission{{cite web|title=American Composers Forum National Contest 2015 Official Announcement|url=https://composersforum.org/program/2015-american-composers-forum-national-composition-contest}}
• 2014 Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Prize, orchestral commission{{cite web|title=Aspen Music Festival 2015 season announcement|url=http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/media/press-area/press-releases/aspen-music-festival-and-school-announces-2015-season/}}
• 2014 Nouvel Ensemble Moderne's 12th International Forum, Montreal, QC{{cite web|url=http://lenem.ca/les-participants-au-forum/|title=LES PARTICIPANTS SÉLECTIONNÉS | Le NEM|publisher=lenem.ca|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2014 Charles Ives Prize (Charles Ives Scholarship) American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2014 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award (Traced Upon Cinders){{cite web|url=http://camil.music.illinois.edu/CompTheory/Awards/Martirano.html|title=Salvatore Martirano Award|publisher=camil.music.illinois.edu|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2014 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Composer Institute{{cite web|url=http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/tobin/20141025-composer-institute-concert-mso.php|title=Classical Net Review - 25 October 2014 - Composer Institute Concert|publisher=classical.net|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2014 Libby Larsen Prize (Remnants) from the International Alliance for Women in Music.{{cite web|url=http://iawm.org/competitions/search-for-new-music/search-for-new-music-past-award-recipients/|title=Search for New Music Past Award Recipients|publisher=iawm.org|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2013 American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings (Remnants) Audience Choice Award{{cite web|url=http://www.americancomposers.org/rel2013040809.html|title=American Composers Orchestra: Underwood New Music Readings|publisher=americancomposers.org|accessdate=2015-05-07}}{{cite web|url=http://www.americancomposers.org/rel_unmr2013winner.html|title=AJ McCaffrey wins 2013 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission|publisher=americancomposers.org|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2011 Pauline Oliveros Prize (Kolokol) from the International Alliance for Women in Music.
• 2011 17th International Young Composers Meeting with the Orkest de ereprijs.{{cite web|url=http://www.ereprijs.nl/over-ereprijs/|title=Ereprijs Ereprijs | de ereprijs|publisher=ereprijs.nl|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
• 2010 BMI Foundation Student Composer Award (Kolokol){{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/58th_annual_bmi_student_composer_award_winners_announced|title=58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced | News | BMI.com|date=17 May 2010 |publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=2015-05-07}}

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