BIO

Sabrina Gamboa Herrera is a storyteller...

A Mexican-American composer, arranger, producer and writer, her styles of music include contemporary concert music, musical theater, pop and rock. Sabrina’s writing style varies greatly, but is currently focused on lyric-writing, theater and other forms of fiction. She lists her main creative influences as Stephen Sondheim, Claude Debussy, Truman Capote, and Octavio Paz.

Sabrina discovered her passion for music in 2007 while attending Instituto Superior de Artes in San José, Costa Rica, while studying piano under acclaimed professors Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski and Dr. Tamara Sklioutovskaia. In 2010, at only fifteen years of age, she was a winner of a competition from the Botazzi International Musical Society and School of Music, resulting in a piano recital at Carnegie Hall (New York City). In 2013 she won second place for her poetry writing from the Premio Internacional Bachillerato Anáhuac, an international creative writing competition in Mexico City.

After finishing high school, Sabrina began to study law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, but couldn’t stay away from her two biggest passions in life: music and creative writing. She transferred to Berklee College of Music in 2018 where she graduated with a dual degree in Contemporary Writing & Production and Composition with a minor in Musical Theater Writing.

During her time at Berklee, Sabrina has been one of the winners of Berklee’s musical theater writing contest, Curtain Up!,  twice, in 2018 and 2019. During her summers, she has interned for internationally recognized nonprofit organization, Silkroad; content creation and media company + Gallo Media; classical music festival, La Rioja Festival; and impactful nonprofit organization, Beats by Girlz Boston.

Sabrina is currently working on her first symphonic piece, titled Guápiles, inspired by her memories from living in Guápiles, Costa Rica in her early teens. She is also working on a series of pieces for female choir titled Ni Una Más, a long multi-movement work dedicated to the victims of femicide in Mexico, an issue that she feels passionately about. Additionally, she is working with long time friend and collaborator, Elijah Prather, on their original musical Perfect Strangers. In her free time, she is writing her first novel, titled Divided, with her brother Sebastian.