Nov 15, 2019
For about a year, Seattle Symphony Principal Cellist Efe Baltacigil has been in conversation with Seattle-based composer Angelique Poteat as the two have collaborated on this week’s world premiere of Angelique’s new cello concerto. Angelique is a much admired clarinetist and composer with deep ties to the Seattle Symphony. She’s already had orchestral and chamber works performed by the players in the orchestra, and she’s participated over the years in the Seattle Symphony’s Merriman Family Young Composer Workshops. Her music has been heard not only in Seattle but throughout the United States and in Australia, Japan and across Europe. Efe Baltacigil talks with KING FM’s Dave Beck about Efe’s admiration for the craft and musicianship of this gifted young composer. Efe says Angelique has even woven Efe’s love for jazz and the art of improvisation into the new concerto.