Adrianna Mateo

Biography

Adrianna Mateo cuts a singular profile across the music industry as a rare triple-threat artist: solo violinist, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is known for her depth, nuance, and appeal to both commercial and classical audiences. She has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, opened for Alicia Keys, concertmastered on Broadway, sung her songs for more than 40,000 people at MCU Park, and acted onstage at the Met Opera, also performing on camera for CBS, MTV, HBO, and CNN. Her 2025 credits include: performing the solo violin chair in the industry presentation of new musical "Roam" (starring Ramin Karimloo and Lorna Courtney), performing a violin concerto written for her by Mitchell McCarthy with NY-times featured contemporary classical orchestra Contemporaneous (with an original cadenza written the night before; conductor, David Bloom), premiering an original violin and vocal work onboard the Intrepid Museum with Exit12 Dance Company, and making her feature film debut in "Song Sung Blue" (starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson).

PRESS:
“A rising artist” - New York Times
“Sensational” - BroadwayWorld
“Elegant and edgy” - 25A Luxury Magazine (John Lennon cover edition)
“Triumphant” - TimeOut NY
“[H]umor, intelligence, softness, and steely will… [S]ome divine violin” - Front Row Center
“A unique triple threat artist” - Metropolitan Luxury Magazine

Other recent (since 2020) projects include: performing as a featured solo violinist to a sold-out Carnegie Hall (with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya/the Refugee Orchestra Project/Amjad Ali Khan for “India at 75”), as the solo violinist and only musical performer in a couture collaboration with Emmy-Winning fashion designer Alantude during New York Fashion Week; as the solo violinist with the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus in her West Coast debut (choral opera premiere, "Tomorrow's Memories" by Matthew Welch); as the solo violinist in the rock band for the new musical, "A Walk on the Moon" (music team included AnnMarie Milazzo and Andy Einhorn), and as a solo violinist with Met Opera assistant conductor Jonathan Cameron Kelly (Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2). She premiered an original visual single, “Love Disconnect,” on the same lineup as musical legends Alan Menken, Desmond Child, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Erika Ender, and Joshua Bell for the Kaufman Music Center’s livestream gala, co-produced and recorded an original single at Jungle City Studios with a Grammy Award-nominated team (credits span Prince, Michael Jackson, and Björk), performed a double set of her songs on voice, violin, ukulele, and keyboard at Perelman Arts Center (Park Avenue Artists’ Spotlight Series), and performed featured song sets at the Dramatists Guild Foundation's new location opening (lineup included Andrew Lippa), at Joe’s Pub on an all-AAPI lineup (hosted by Kate Rigg and Olivia Oguma), and at the Signature Theater Lobby (Musical Theater Factory’s People of Color Roundtable). As an actress, music director, composer, singer, solo violinist, and multi-instrumentalist for theater, she starred in “Hildegard, Reborn” at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium (written by Rocky Duval, directed by Alyssa Weathersby), “Primordial," a play about pregnancy and childbirth, at The Tank (written by Lillian Isabella, directed by Meghan Finn), and "Specially Processed American Me,” which was featured in the New York Times and sold out its theater five times in a row (written by Jaime Sunwoo, co-directed by Karim Muasher and J. Sunwoo).

Adrianna's pre-pandemic schedule featured: concurrent stage runs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the NYC premieres of solo violin pieces written for her, additionally wearing 1st violin and music director-curator hats for chamber music works that she commissioned) and the Met Opera (acting in a scene with soprano Anna Netrebko), her Broadway debut in "Tootsie" as the first-call concertmaster sub for Mazz Swift (M.D. Andrea Grody), performing solo violin at the Bang on a Can Summer Marathon at the Winter Garden Atrium (that year’s only solo artist on a lineup that included Meredith Monk), playing solo violin at the United Nations General Assembly (conductor, Lidiya Yankovskaya/Refugee Orchestra Project/Amjad Ali Khan), opening solo for Alicia Keys at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, recording chamber music for Philip Glass (1st violin), singing on MTV, performing her music with a full live band at Joe's Pub (Musical Theater Factory), performing her original music at MCU Park for more than 40,000 people at the Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk, performing original works at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, and performing on tour internationally (Southeast Asia, South Africa, Europe, North America). Her music, supported by composer Nico Muhly and praised by Grammy Award-winning, multiplatinum producer Bob Power, is announced first via her newsletter and is available on all major online music distributors.

Adrianna has more than ten years of teaching and conducting experience. A young faculty hire at the Kaufman Music Center, she mainly taught at Face The Music, where she coached gifted string quartets for performances at Carnegie Hall and National Sawdust (guest artists included the Kronos Quartet and ETHEL) and started and developed the songwriting program over several years (guest artists included Helen Park, Lynzy Lab, and Spencer Battiest & Doc Native). Adrianna’s formative musical experiences include performing her Carnegie Hall debut on piano at eight years old, writing new songs every day for a week at the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project, and regularly immersing herself for hours in her dad's music collection, which featured the Mateo family's Three B's: Bach, Barbra Streisand, and Billy Idol.