About this Artist
Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican–born composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes music for voices, orchestras, ensembles, and film as well as robots, toys, and plants. Negrón is known for playing with the unexpected intersection of classical and electronic music, unusual instruments, and found sounds.
Premieres during the 2025/26 season include a cello concerto to be performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and a requiem for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Recent commissions include works for Opera Philadelphia (a drag opera film in collaboration with Matthew Placek and Sasha Velour), the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Botanical Garden, Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and her Carnegie Hall debut, commissioned and performed by Sō Percussion. As a guest curator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, under the creative direction of John Adams, Negrón brings together collaborators Lido Pimienta, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Raquel Acevedo Klein, and she continues to develop a multidisciplinary work as a Lincoln Center Collider Fellow. As the recipient of the 2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Negrón composed a work synchronized to the setting sun for ensembleNewSRQ.
Negrón’s original scores include the HBO docuseries Menudo: Forever Young and the documentary You Were My First Boyfriend by filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo. Negrón regularly performs solo shows and is a founding member of the tropical electronic band Balún. She has been a teaching artist with the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program and with Lincoln Center Education.
Negrón lives in Brooklyn, where she’s always looking for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work.