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Brooke Green is a composer, performer and music director and has wide-ranging musical interests. She is artistic director, composer and performer with Josie and the Emeralds, and writes for diverse instrumental ensembles and leading musicians. Her music has been repeatedly performed in Australia, UK, Germany, USA, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland. Several of her works have been broadcast on ABC Classic FM, Fine Music - 2MBS FM and RTE Ireland.

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.

In 2025, four of Brooke's compositions were performed in Still She Rises at the Limerick Early Music Festival. The Spirit of Daphne for solo bass viol was commissioned by Laura Vaughan who frequently includes it in solo recitals in Australia and Germany. In the UK, The Spirit of Daphne is often performed by Ibi Aziz. In 2022, Brooke collaborated with indigenous spoken word artist Nicole Brown to write Following in their Footsteps. This was performed by the Arafura Music Collective, along with several of her works at Darwin's Supreme Court. In 2023 Brooke included her own music in a solo treble viol recital at St James Church, King St, Sydney and in a recital for the University of Limerick, Ireland for their lunch time series. Brooke has written several works in reaction to the mistreatment of refugees. Reza Barati has been performed in different arrangements, featuring bass viol, cello or tenor saxophone by Camerata, Latitude 37, the Arafura Music Collective, the Yonit Kosovske baroque trio and Josie and the Emeralds. Brooke has been commissioned by The Art Gallery of NSW to write a new work and to curate, direct and perform the concert series Music in this Stillness. In 2019, Brooke collaborated with The Night Watch to give a concert of her music in Wellington, New Zealand.

The Tall Poppies CDs: The Emerald Phoenix and The Emerald Leopard feature Brooke's music. Videos can be viewed here.

As a teenager, Brooke was a prizewinning music composer but for several decades afterwards, refocussed her energies on performance and research. Brooke is a graduate of the University of Sydney Music Department where she was awarded the Donald Peart Prize for excellence in performance, composition and musicology. With a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarship, she studied baroque violin at Royal Conservatory, The Hague and in London with Micaela Comberti. For several years Brooke played baroque and classical violin with London-based ensembles such as The Hanover Band, London Baroque and The Brandenburg Consort while researching and performing music by baroque women composers such as Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. 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 her interest in composition was reignited after collaborating with Melody Eotvos to perform Eotvos' work for solo vielle: Ceptractli.

Brooke Green — current to May 2025