Original Compositions

Compositions
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COMPOSITIONS LIST

OKLAHOMA WOMAN QUARTET - Song Cycle
11 Pieces for String Quartet & Voice – Composed & Arranged by Anjelica Lindsey

A Statement from Anjelica Lindsey on OKLAHOMA WOMAN QUARTET:

”By centering modern Indigenous narrative and song within a sophisticated, contemporary compositional framework, the work challenges historical erasure, fosters cultural visibility, and inspires a broader dialogue about identity and the evolving role of Native voices in the concert repertoire.”

REQUIEM | ANALENISGVI | ᎠᎾᎴᏂᏍᎬᎢ

I. Benedicat Nobis Transitum
Adadolisdv Unvsa Hawinaditlv Ahedohi | ᎠᏓᏙᎵᏍᏗ ᎤᏅᏌ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᎠᏁᏙᎯ

II. Lux Aeterna
Igohidv Atsvdv | ᎢᎪᎯᏛ ᎠᏨᏍᏛ

String Orchestra, SATB Choir, Pipe Organ, Harp & Percussion – Cherokee Language

Composed in 2024 by Anjelica Lindsey, the first Native American woman from the United States to write a requiem and the world’s first Requiem in the Cherokee language.

A Statement from Anjelica Lindsey on REQUIEM:

”REQUIEM (ANALENISGVI) is an audacious act of cultural reclamation, forcing the classical world to reckon with an Indigenous language from a woman composer in a space where it has never existed. As the first requiem in Cherokee, this work does preserves an at-risk language and asserts its place in the highest echelons of symphonic music, dismantling narratives that Indigenous languages belong only to history. REQUIEM is a challenge to the classical establishment, proving that Indigenous expression belongs on the grandest of stages. REQUIEM sets a precedent for the future of classical music; one where marginalized languages and cultures are no longer sidelined but take center stage in shaping its evolution.”

SYMPHONY NO. 1
I. Invocation
II. Continuum
III. Serenata
IV. Pas De Deux
V. Phantasmagoria

In Progress, 2025-2026

Symphony No. 1 by Anjelica Lindsey is a 25 minute work in five movements for symphony orchestra that reimagines the American symphony . Written in response to the Indianist movement in classical music which framed Indigenous culture through the interpretations of non-Native composers, this work is a direct reclamation of authorship from within lived experience.

Rooted in Lindsey’s Cherokee identity and the history of Oklahoma, the piece reflects on cycles of cultural persistence, particularly in response to the legacy of assimilation schools and the erasure of Indigenous voice in Oklahoma. The symphony rejects enduring stereotypes of the “stoic” or “disappearing” Native, instead asserting a living, contemporary voice grounded in romantic expression. Rather than presenting Indigenous identity as distant or historical, the work situates it firmly in the present.

Symphony No. 1 contributes to a new vision of American classical music, centering Indigenous authorship within a traditionally exclusionary form and presenting a sound world that is both contemporary and deeply rooted. Informed by modern ideals of love, the symphony stands as an act of Indigenous futurism, expressing love through contemporary symphonic language while rooted in a living Cherokee perspective. It is the first Symphony written by an Indigenous woman in the United States and the first by a Cherokee woman composer.

SINFONIETTA NO. I
A Cherokee In Paris
2026

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” - Hemingway

Inspired by Anjelica Lindsey’s travels to Paris, the piece for symphony orchestra explores the tension between a city where art, language, and cultural heritage are celebrated as central to life, and the historical experience of the Cherokee people, whose traditions have survived under constant threat in the United States. The title playfully positions a Cherokee as an artist navigating a foreign landscape where cultural continuity is assumed rather than endangered.

The piece pays a loose homage to Gershwin’s An American in Paris, adopting a similar spirit of an outsider absorbing the energy and rhythms of the city through a personal lens. Lindsey translates the impressionistic qualities of the Paris cityscape into orchestral textures that move seamlessly between whimsy, awe, and reflection. Each section functions as a vignette: bustling boulevards, intimate walks through gardens, and quiet contemplation beneath grand architectural facades, capturing the overwhelming effect of a city that centers the beauty of art, the truth in difficult history, and cultural life.

These sensory and musical explorations are framed in deliberate contrast with Lindsey’s own American and Cherokee context. Oklahoma, formerly Indian Territory, carries a layered history of forced removal, broken treaties, and cultural erasure. Against this backdrop, Paris becomes a mirror: a place where culture is openly revered and integrated into daily life, offering a vision of what a celebration of artistic and philosophical heritage could feel like. Lindsey’s motifs, orchestration, and rhythmic gestures navigate this contrast, creating spaces of reverie and wonder that underscore both loss and possibility.

Sinfonietta No. 1: A Cherokee in Paris imagines a world in which art and cultural voice can be centered and celebrated. The work asserts that personal and ancestral histories can coexist with the beauty and vibrancy of a modern city, inviting listeners to experience a dialogue between heritage and aspiration, survival and artistic joy.

PERHAPS – 12 Movements for String Quartet & Piano

Album: ABSTRACTIONS – Now streaming on Spotify and all major platforms

SPRING DANCE FOR CLARINET
Clarinet Solo – Score or recording available on request
Juilliard, March 2024

EROICA FOR WIND TRIO
Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon – Score or recording available on request
Juilliard, April 2024

Albums & SINGLES

OKLAHOMA WOMAN QUARTET – Debut March 1, 2025 with official World Premiere of the Composer’s Orchestrations on October 1, 2025, Studio Album Coming Soon
PERHAPS: ABSTRACTIONS – Now streaming on Spotify and all major platforms
SOLILOQUY FOR SOLO CELLO - Now streaming on Spotify and all major platforms, perfomed by Mitchell Lyon, recorded in New York City, April 2025
CHAMBER IN RED - Coming soon
RIVERS RISING – Coming soon