Composer
Angelique Poteat and Seattle Symphony Community Youth Chorus Director
Megan
McCormick share a discussion on
Dear Humanity, the piece created through a collaboration between
Poteat and the Community Youth Chorus.
Christine Siegert, Beethoven scholar and Publishing Director
at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany, will join the conversation to share her expertise.
Hosted by Seattle Symphony Vice President of Artistic Planning
Raff Wilson.
About Angelique Poteat:
Angelique Poteat is a native of the Pacific Northwest. Her music has been recorded and performed in Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary, Japan, Italy, Norway, and all over the United States by ensembles including the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, Saratoga Orchestra, Woodlands Symphony Orchestra, North Corner Chamber Orchestra, CernaBella, and the Enso Quartet. Some notable performances include Beyond Much Difference (2014), a piece commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and performed by them at their January 2015 Sonic Evolution concert with Mike McCready, Chris Cornell, and members of the bands, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, and more; Much Difference (2014) at (le) Poisson Rouge in New York; Roots of Variegation (2012) at the 2012 International Women’s Brass Conference; Reflections on a Summer (2008) at the 2012 Druskomanija festival in Lithuania; and A Perspective (2009) at the 2010 International VSA Festival. Poteat is the recipient of the 2015 American Prize in Composition for Beyond Much Difference, as well as grants from Seattle 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the Allied Arts Foundation. She is also a 2015 CityArtist from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and the 2018 Composer-in-Residence for the New Music on the Rock Festival. She is currently working on two commissions for the Seattle Symphony’s 2019-20 Masterworks Series.
About Megan McCormick:
Megan McCormick holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University, and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Central Washington University. She joined the Endolyne Children’s Choir conducting staff in February, 2018. In addition, she is the Director of Choral Activities at Bethel High School and heads the Voice Department at the Paradise Theater in Gig Harbor. She also sings in the Seattle Symphony Chorale and participates in local musical theater.
About Christine Siegert:
Christine Siegert studied music education, musicology, Romance studies and philosophy in Hanover and Amiens (France). Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service, the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Doctorate (2003) at the University of Music and Theater Hanover with a dissertation on Luigi Cherubini. Afterwards, she worked on the DFG-project "Joseph Haydns Bearbeitungen von Arien anderer Komponisten" (University of Wurzburg, Joseph Haydn-Institute in Cologne), 2006-2009 as a research associate at the Joseph Haydn-Institute in Cologne, 2009-2010 on the academia project “OPERA – Spektrum des europäischen Musiktheaters in Einzeleditionen” (University of Bayreuth), and lastly, head of the working group (she was awarded the German Prize for Musical Editions "Best Edition 2014" for the volume of Antonio Salieri's "Prima la musica e poi le parole," which she supervised). 2010-2015 junior professor at the University of the Arts Berlin, as of 2013, management of the research project "A Cosmopolitan Composer in Pre-Revolutionary Europe – Giuseppe Sarti" (in cooperation with the Hebrew University Jerusalem and financed by the Einstein Foundation Berlin). 2013-2017 vice chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for research of art and music history at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as spokeswoman of the commission on studies abroad of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung; since 2017, member of the advisory board of the society.
Since September 2015, she has been the head of the archive and the publishing house of the Beethoven-Haus. She publishes the "Schriften zur Beethoven-Forschung" (as of volume 26), and she is a co-editor of the “Bonner Beethoven-Studien” (as of volume 12) and the general editor of the "Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe" (since 2016).
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