Angélica Negrón

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).

Rooted in her experience as a Puerto Rican artist living in the diaspora, her work explores migration, memory, absence, and belonging. Recent and upcoming projects include a cello concerto commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Yo-Yo Ma and 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.

Her music has been commissioned and performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Kronos Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, and Sō Percussion. She has also created multidisciplinary projects with drag performers, filmmakers, botanical artists, and comedians.

Negrón was the first composer-in-residence at the New York Botanical Garden and has received honors including the Hermitage Greenfield Prize. Her screen credits include the HBO docuseries Menudo: Forever Young, the Netflix documentary Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful, and Through Our Eyes for Sesame Workshop. Her arrangements can be heard on Rosalía’s acclaimed 2025 album LUX (Columbia Records).

A founding member of the tropical electronic band Balún, she lives in Brooklyn, where she looks for ways to incorporate her love of drag, comedy, and the natural world into her work.