Brooke Green : Associate Artist
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Photo: Stephen Reinhardt
Brooke Green has been studying and performing Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque music for many years and this is the
springboard for much of her music. As artistic director of the
soprano and viol consort Josie and the Emeralds, she
usually composes for their programs but has also arranged her
works for modern instrumental ensembles. Her music has been
frequently performed by Consortium.
Recordings include The Emerald Phoenix (Tall Poppies TP271) on
josieandtheemeralds.com
and
The Emerald Leopard (Tall Poppies TP233).
Brooke has written several works in reaction to the ill-treatment
of refugees. Reza Barati has been performed in different
arrangements, with repeat performances featuring bass viol, cello
or tenor saxophone.
Brooke is recipient of the
2023 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Fund, the
2019 Jonathan Blakeman National Composition Prize and a
winner of the Viola da Gamba Society of America's Traynor
Competition for New Viol Music.
Brooke was commissioned by The Art Gallery of NSW while curating
and performing in the concert series Music in this Stillness. In
2019, Brooke collaborated with musicians from The Night Watch to
give a concert of her music in Wellington, New Zealand. The
Spirit of Daphne for solo bass viol was commissioned by
Laura Vaughan. In 2022, Brooke was Guest Artistic Director,
performer and composer with the Arafura Music Collective, Darwin.
Brooke is published by
PRB Music
Brooke is a graduate of the University of Sydney Music Department
where she was awarded the Donald Peart Prize as an outstanding
student in musicology, composition and performance. With a Queen
Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarship, she studied baroque violin
at Royal Conservatory, The Hague and in London with Michaela
Comberti. For several years Brooke played baroque and classical
violin with London-based ensembles such as The Hanover Band and
The Brandenburg Consort while researching and performing music by
early women composers such as Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la
Guerre. In 2010, after studying viol and vielle with Wendy
Gillespie, Brooke graduated with a Masters in Early Music
Performance from the Historical Performance Institute,
Bloomington, Indiana University where she also was a performer of
contemporary music on historical instruments.
Brooke Green — current to June 2023
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Spirit of Daphne (viola da gamba as soloist) (2020) | Commissioned by Laura Vaughan. |