Podcast - Anjelica Lindsey
David Fogel Interviews Composer/Violinist Anjelica Lindsey
Anjelica Lindsey is a composer, violinist, recording artist, and enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with language revitalization, cultural reclamation, and the sonic expression of identity through contemporary classical music. She has premiered original works with her Oklahoma Woman Ensemble and produced projects through her production headquarters, Wild Mountain Studios. Her work has also been developed through private readings at Juilliard and guest engagements at institutions including the University of Tulsa.
Lindsey is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy. Her projects include the Oklahoma Woman Quartet album and GRAMMY® Award consideration campaign, as well as her Fall 2026 symphonic debut at the Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival with Houston Cougar Camerata Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, she became the first Cherokee woman composer to premiere a string quartet and was named a Public Fellow of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. She is a 2024 recipient of the Artists Creative Fund grant and a 2026 recipient of the First Peoples Fund Yéego Action grant.
Lindsey studied composition, scoring to picture, and advanced orchestration through Juilliard Extension under the mentorship of Dr. Daniel Felsenfeld. Her childhood studies with renowned Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn helped shape her artistic voice. She continues to develop new works for full orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice, and film, including REQUIEM, believed to be the first requiem composed in the Cherokee language, and Symphony No. 1, believed to be the first full-scale five-movement symphony by a Native American woman composer.
Please enjoy this long-format conversation between David Fogel (CEO, The Symphonina Foundation) and Anjelica.