Andrea Young

Andrea Young is a performer-composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, specializing in a sound-controlling voice enabled through feature extraction and data-driven live electronics. Andrea is currently a Faculty member in the Electroacoustic Studies Department, Concordia University, Montreal QC.

Her scores, recordings and articles have been published by Redshift Records, The Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press USA), Éditions Musique Sisyphe (Moncton NB, Canada), EXOENDONOISE (Canada/USA), and La Camera Verde (IT). Recent commissions have been for No Hay Banda, Architek Percussion, Quatuor Bozzini and Array Music. She is a member of Phth (experimental vocal ensemble), S[ILK]S (duo with Jennifer Thiessen), and Teo Dora An Drea (duo with Teodora Stepančić). Andrea has been working with poet Donato Mancini, cinematographer Van Royko and post-disciplinary artists Electronic Countermeasures (Emery Martin and Kerstin Hovland).

Compositions have been presented in Canada by The Music Gallery, Array music, No Hay Banda, Vancouver New Music, Calgary New Works, Open Space New Music and Innovations en Concert. She has performed her work internationally for REDCAT and Automata (Los Angeles), eavesdropping (London UK), and ICMC (Athens, Greece).

Andrea studied vocal performance and composition at The University of Victoria (2001), electronic music at The Institute of Sonology, The Hague (2007), and completed the Performer-Composer DMA from The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2014). Her creative work, travel and studies have been enabled by several awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts du Quebec, the BC Arts Council and The Herb Alpert School of Music.