St James' Lunchtime Concert: Brooke Green

On Wednesday 16th August at 1:15pm Brooke Green plays a rare concert of solos for treble viol at St James' King Street, Sydney.

Palimpsests of Isabella - Women in Music from Medieval to Modern

Music by Tobias Hume, Martha Bishop, Brooke Green and Elena Kats-Chernin.

A palimpsest is a manuscript where the original text has been covered over by new writing – a common practice in medieval times. This recital was inspired by the notion of palimpsest in music about women, beginning with the intriguingly named Isabella from a 14th century manuscript of instrumental solos.

Brooke Green is a composer, performer and artistic director for Josie and the Emeralds.

For several years Brooke played baroque and classical violin with London-based ensembles such as The London Handel Orchestra, The Brandenburg Consort and The Hanover Band while researching and performing music by early women composers such as Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. A concert by Jordi Savall inspired her to take up the treble viol which led to study with Wendy Gillespie and a Masters in Early Music Performance at Bloomington, Indiana University. As a composer, Brooke is a 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. Her music appears on The Emerald Leopard  and The Emerald Phoenix CDs (Tall Poppies).