Angélica (Angie) Durrell
Board of Directors
Founder and CEO
Angélica (Angie) Durrell is an Ecuadorian-born violinist, educator, and social entrepreneur. She belongs to the sixth-generation of La Familia Godoy-- a family of musicians from the Chimborazo region in Ecuador, from her maternal side. Angie is the founder and CEO of INTEMPO—a Connecticut-based creative youth development organization dedicated to making music and cultures relevant, accessible and inclusive. Under her leadership, INTEMPO has grown to serve hundreds of children in the Fairfield County area. An award-winning organization, INTEMPO won the prestigious 2021 Impact Fairfield County award and the 2022 Accelerator Award from the Lewis Prize for Music, was a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award finalist, and premiered a new multimedia commission featuring the Grammy-nominated PUBLIQuartet as part of Carnegie Hall’s Music Educators workshops, hosted by the PlayUSA network.
Durrell spearheaded the advocacy efforts to establish the first Arts and Culture Commission for the City of Stamford. She received a Mayoral appointment and became the first Latina commissioner for the second largest city in Connecticut. She currently serves on the national task-force for the Arts & Economic Prosperity Study (AEP6) for Americans for the Arts.
Her leadership has been recognized by the National Assembly of Ecuador through the Immigrant Women Award. Ms. Durrell was named a cultural ambassador between the sister cities of Riobamba (Ecuador) and Norwalk (CT). Connecticut magazine recognized her in their Forty under 40 class, and she has been honored by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame.
Angie has given talks on social entrepreneurship at Princeton University and the University of Michigan, among others. She has served on local and national art grants panels including the City of Houston’s Cultural Affairs Department, the Rasmuson Foundation in Alaska, amongst others. Her TEDx talk has been acclaimed for creating institutional awareness and action towards cultural equity and representation.
Upon founding INTEMPO, she secured funding from the State Department and devised international partnerships that led to a new groundbreaking work by composer Gabriela Lena Frank for an all-native Andean instrument ensemble (Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos in Quito-Ecuador) which was captured in a PBS documentary, Compadre Huashayo. A classically-trained violinist, her artistic highlights include playing for Pope Francis during his first trip to Latin America and at the Wounded Knee memorial site. She premiered a trio piece written for her at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing arts and for the 2023 Composers Now Festival opening night, hosted by Tania León.
Ms. Durrell is an alumna of the Sphinx Performance Academy, and served as the program’s Assistant Dean at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Roosevelt University in Chicago. Sphinx Organization’s Founder Aaron Dworkin, a 2005 MacArthur Fellow and President Barack Obama’s first nominee for the National Council for the Arts, has been Durrell’s mentor since 2007.
Angie credits her career highlights to ongoing mentoring and advocacy training under the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), National Arts Strategies, American Express Leadership Academy, and the Sphinx LEAD fellowship. Durrell holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Connecticut. She is currently pursuing an MBA at Sacred Heart University. She serves as an artist ambassador for SpreadMusicNow and resides in Stamford, Connecticut.
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