wattleseed ensemble's music is an invitation to intimacy; to the rawness of gut strings and eucalypt forest; to connection.we weave together music of the baroque period together with folk music and contemporary australian music in a confluence of styles, finding cohesion in the telling of a story. these stories always take us back to our scrappy, beautiful, astonishing aussie environment.
formed in 2020 by violist katie yap, wattleseed has performed all over victoria with musica viva australia, the port fairy spring music festival, and the melbourne recital centre (to name a few).in 2023, violinist meg cohen joined katie as co-artistic director, and together they've begun education outreach to regional victoria, and in 2025 will embark on a tour in south australia, with a new commission by jakub jankowski.