About Angelica

Angelica is a Westchester-based women’s choral ensemble that formed in 1996, when four women in Hastings-on-Hudson began to sing madrigals weekly. As the Christmas season approached, they wanted to sing Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, so they added a few voices. Since then, Angelica has performed two or more winter and spring concerts annually, including music spanning the 1st through 21st centuries. Angelica has performed a wide range of works, including early music by Machaut, Palestrina, Dufay, Monteverdi, and others; contemporary compositions by Lili Boulanger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and John Tavener and Julie Dolphin (special commission); and unique genres including Sephardic, Balkan, American folk music and jazz. Although specializing in a cappella music, Angelica has also performed such works as Brahms’s Vier Gesänge with harp and French horns, Stravinsky’s Four Russian Peasant Songs with French horns, and Britten’s Missa Brevis and Rejoice in the Lamb with organ.

Angelica has performed in Manhattan at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel, Metro Baptist Church, and Park Avenue Methodist Church—and in several Westchester churches. Angelica also performs in the Downtown Music series at Grace Church in White Plains and the Croton Free Library’s concert series. They also participated in the 2006 International Festival of Women and Girls Choirs, hosted by Virginia Davidson and the New York Treble Singers.

Gorgeous sound, rich sonorities, transparent harmonies. Eugene Sirotkine, Assistant Chorus Master and Assistant conductor, Metropolitan Opera. 2008

The intonation was perfert. Eugene Mohr. 2007

Angelica delights and surprises the ear. Their sound is... angelic. Judith Spikes, The Enterprise. 12/16/05