Angélica Negrón (born 1981)
Angélica Negrón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She studied piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico, earned a master’s degree at New York University, and is working on a doctorate in composition at City University of New York, where she has studied with composer Tania León. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Angélica Negrón has written music for orchestras, choirs, and chamber ensembles, but also for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics. She has composed music for over a dozen documentaries and founded Balún, a band variously described as “indie dream-pop” and “tropical electronic.” Here’s a sample with vocals by the composer:
Her 2020 composition Marejada for string quartet and electronics was created with COVID isolation in mind. Here it is here performed by the Kronos Quartet: