The daughter of two musicians from her native Cleveland, Ohio, Angela is a performer and educator in New York City.
Active in the musical theater world, you can find Angela currently subbing in the Broadway pit orchestras of Sunset Boulevard, Wicked and Suffs. She’s previously played in the Broadway pit orchestras of Camelot and The Music Man, Off-Broadway with Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and with the National Touring Company of Les Miserables. Last season she played Oliver! at New York City Center as part of the Encores! season. For the past several holiday seasons, she played in the Radio City Music Hall orchestra for the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular show.
In the Fall of 2022, Angela premiered a new concerto, written for her, by composer Michael Boyman, with The Chelsea Symphony. Click here to listen.
In addition to performing regularly with TCS, Angela is a founding member of the reed trio, Reeds Amis. The International Double Reed Society invited Reeds Amis to present and perform the unpublished works of Fernande Decruck at the IDRS Conference in Tokyo in 2015 and the International Clarinet Association invited them to do the same in Dublin this coming summer. Check out their album; Reeds Amis, The Reed Trios of Fernande Decruck on YouTube Music, Apple Music, and Spotify.
You can see and hear Angela on the Golden Globe winning television series Mozart in the Jungle, including a solo passage from Messiaen's Abîme des oiseaux from the Quartet for the End of Time in Episode 7 of Season 3, which was filmed on Rikers Island. A deeply moving experience, she has since worked behind the scenes to establish a chamber music program at Rikers with The Chelsea Symphony and with the support of the NYC Department of Corrections.
A passionate music education advocate and teacher, Angela has extensive experience teaching both private and group clarinet lessons. She maintains an active clarinet studio with students of all ages as a member of In The Pocket NYC. ITPNYC is a collective of teaching musicians who have come together to help invigorate New York City’s Arts Education Community with benefit events, innovative performances, and exceptional music instruction.
Angela received a B.A. in Clarinet Performance and Music Education from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.A. in Clarinet Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she received the Performer’s Certificate, the highest prize in performance. While at Eastman, Angela also won both the Jack L. Frank Award for Excellence in Community Teaching and the Teaching Assistant Prize for her work as an educator, additionally earning an Arts Leadership Certificate.
As a freelancer, she has played with the the Billboard Music Award winning rock band AJR, Guster, and with the Japanese songwriter and producer Yoshiki. She’s also played with the American Symphony, West Point Band, Heartbeat Opera Company, Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Light Opera Company, International Opera Theatre Company of Italy, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's Chamber Ensemble and as a soloist with the Garden State Philharmonic. She has performed in such venues as La Fenice in Venice, the United Nations, the Library of Congress, David Geffen Hall, and Carnegie Hall. If you look closely, you can see her in the orchestra of the movie Bel Canto, starring Julianne Moore.
When Angela isn’t teaching or performing, she’s likely busy chasing after her three boys Matteo, Rohan, and Eddie!
