Tyné Angela is a musician, researcher, and instrument technician. Since 2010, she has released seven recorded albums and published a novel. Tyné has performed around the globe, opening for artists such as Vanessa Williams and Lalah Hathaway, and singing at the Kennedy Center. She studied music at Dartmouth College, where she was named a Senior Fellow with honors.
Tyné was recently selected for the 2024-25 YoungArts Fellowship. Her Sustainable Symphony project focuses on the construction of musical instruments using sustainable materials, specifically flax fiber and a carbon fiber composite filament that contains 100% recycled material. Showcased in a culminating performance (spring 2025), the constructed instruments will highlight Tyné’s expansive practice and explore creative solutions to problems of accessibility, functionality, cost, and environmental sustainability. Her ongoing research examines sounds emitted from damaged or neglected musical objects; waste and surplus in the instrument industry; methods of curbing deforestation; and optimizing the acoustic properties of alternative build materials. Tyné is passionate about responsible stewardship and strives to bring voice to the threat-multiplying effects of climate change.
Her work has been generously supported and showcased by the National YoungArts Foundation, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Recording Academy, Dartmouth’s Reynold’s Fellowship, TEDx, and Banff Center for the Arts, among others. She enjoys working with first-year (mostly non-traditional) college students as an Adjunct Professor.
