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Composer and sonic artist Nina C. Young creates works, ranging from orchestral concert pieces to interactive installations, that explore aural architectures, resonance, virtuosity, and ephemera. She dialogues with natural acoustic environments, instrumental performance techniques, and digital signal processing. Her music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aizuri Quartet, and the Grossman Ensemble, among others. Winner of the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Young serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School, as Slee Visiting Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, and as faculty and Composition Coordinator at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her music is published by Peermusic Classical.