NEWS - October '2011

-- GEARS OF WAR 3 video game (Epic/Microsoft) – composed additional cues and supervised the score production, working with Steve Jablonsky

-- A4 fantasy video game (AniPark Studios, Korea) – composed additional cues and supervised the score production, working with Steve Jablonsky

-- TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON film -- created custom arrangements for Steve Jablonksy

-- NIGHT OVER ERZINGA, by Adriana Sevahn Nichols -- composed original theater music for this family-epic play.

Says Adriana:Your music is phenomenal, gorgeous, so full of heart and beauty, and so much more personal then I ever dreamed. MY JUBILANT and EXUBERANT THANKS!

-- MODERN DRAMA TRAILERS – composed for X-Ray Dog Music, a leading trailer music company

-- WORLD OF WARCRAFT: Mists of Pandaria (Blizzard Entertainment) – orchestrated for Neal Acree

-- STARCRAFT II: Heart of the Swarm (Blizzard Entertainment) - orchestrated for Neal Acree

-- DIABLO III (Blizzard Entertainment) – orchestrated for Neal Acree

-- TRUE BLOOD, Season 4 (HBO) – orchestrated for Nathan Barr

-- REVENGE and PERCEPTION – orchestrated on two ABC prime-time drama shows

-- orchestrated for Police's Steward Copeland on a 2-hour arena show "Ben Hur Live" produced in Europe

-- A SYMPHONY OF HOPE, benefit CD for Haiti earthquake relief - orchestrated for Nathan Barr

NEWS - July '2010

-- co-composed 2 hours of game score for "PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE FORGOTTEN SANDS" video game working alongside Steve Jablonsky. Penka is deeply grateful to Steve for this fantastic opportunity. The score has received critical acclaim and has been called "a rousing orchestrated soundtrack (the best ... heard in years)," "sweeping and exotic soundtrack." Penka is also grateful to her collaborator composer Chris Lord who produced the percussion and electronics on the POP score.

-- completing original scores for two independent films: drama-romance "ROUGH HUSTLE" and crime-mystery "REJOUER"

-- orchestrated "Admiral Nimitz Suite" for composer Justin R. Durban, a large-scale orchestral score for The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, TX

-- orchestrated on "World of WarCraft: Cataclysm" game for Blizzard's contributing composer Neal Acree

-- notated and arranged "True Blood Suite" for composer Nathan Barr for a concert performance in Ubeda, Spain

-- orchestrated the "Sims 3" game extension packets for composer Steve Jablonsky

-- orchestrated on "StarCraft II" game for Blizzard's contributing composer Neal Acree

NEWS - March '09

-- composed additional cues for TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN videogame working alongside the Transformers composer Steve Jablonsky. Penka is grateful to Steve for his musical guidance and this amazing opportunity.

-- composed rock-orchestral music for the trailer for ROUGH HUSTLE. Scoring of the this indie drama feature about card counters in Vegas will take place in 2009. Penka collaborated with rock producer-guitarist Tim Acres on the trailer and is excited to work together on the future score with Tim.

-- composed additional score cues for the sci-fi horror feature BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATIONS working alongside composer Adam Balazs

-- composed horror-supernatural trailers for X-RAY DOG's latest library of trailer music

-- Lead-orchestrated NINE, a fantasy animated feature produced by Tim Burton and scored by Deborah Lurie. Penka met Deborah at Aspen Music Festival in the early 1990's.

-- orchestrated cues on ANGELS AND DEMONS directed by Ron Howard and scored by Hans Zimmer

-- Penka was invited as an Advisor for the 2008 Sundance Composers Lab (being a Lab Fellow herself in 2001) and also was a Panelist for the Sundance Independent Producers Conference.