Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican composer and performer who writes music for voices, orchestras, ensembles and film as well as robots, toys, and plants. At the intersection of classical and electronic music, she blends unusual instruments, and acoustic, electronic and found sounds “to underscore the inventive sound world that she brings to her music...” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Rooted in her experience as a Puerto Rican artist living in the diaspora, her work explores migration, absence, and belonging, evident in upcoming premieres including a cello concerto commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and The Puerto Rico Experiment, a song cycle for Roomful of Teeth and Balún commissioned by PAC NYC that examines Puerto Rico’s history as a site of political, scientific, and economic experimentation.

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Angélica has composed for Opera Philadelphia (a drag opera film with Mathew Placek and Sasha Velour), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, and for Sō Percussion who commissioned and performed her Carnegie Hall debut. A recent work for Trés Chamber Music Trio and saxophonist José Antonio Zayas Cabán, honors stories of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the Twin Cities.

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As guest curator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2025 Green Umbrella series, (Creative Director, John Adams), Angélica collaborated with Lido Pimienta, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Raquel Acevedo Klein on a program featuring Caribbean and Latin American composers. A 2026 Lincoln Center Collider Fellow, she developed multidisciplinary work with botanical artist Sophie Parker and filmmaker Claudia Calderón. 

 

The first composer-in-residence at the New York Botanical Garden, Angélica composed an outdoor immersive electronic and choral soundscape, and as the recipient of the Hermitage Greenfield Prize, a site-specific work synchronized to the sunset for EnsembleNewSRQ, as the recipient of the Hermitage Greenfield Prize. While artist-in-residence at WNYC’s The Greene Space, she created El Living Room, a multimedia television talk show.

 

Original scores include the HBO docuseries Menudo: Forever Young, the Netflix documentary Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful, and for Sesame Workshop’s Through Our Eyes. Her arrangements can be heard on Rosalía’s acclaimed 2025 album LUX (Columbia Records).

 

Angélica’s musical education began at El Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico under Alfonso Fuentes—while making waves in San Juan’s local DIY music scene—and later studied at NYU under Pedro da Silva and The Graduate Center (CUNY) under Tania León. An educator herself, Angélica was a teaching artist (NY Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program, Lincoln Center Education), guiding young artists in creative composition projects.

 

Angélica performs a solo show and is a founding member of tropical electronic band Balún, whose work appears in WNYC’s podcast La Brega. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she looks for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work.

“wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative”

                                                             - WQXR/Q2