Brooke Green
Brooke Green writes and arranges for soprano and viols, folding Renaissance song into new consort music that carries Dorothy Porter, boatpeople laments and forgotten Australian histories into dark, close-voiced shimmer.
As director of Josie and the Emeralds she builds programmes where Gibbons, Dowland and Morley sit beside her own work and her reinventions of Edwards, Kats-Chernin and Pandolfo. Bone Burning Tunes sets Porter with long lines and unsettled harmony; The Shades rides a Joplin-like tread into stranger chords and took the audience prize at an international competition for new viol music. Travelling to the Question waltzes with Hildegard and harder questions. Later pieces for voice, viols and theorbo chase the phoenix theme of rising after sorrow, from Mungo Lady to detention stories and uppity women of myth, and she completes a lost Stevenson set of Misereres by restoring the missing trebles. The sound is intimate, plucked and bowed, built for late listening and for music that still wants to move the listener.
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The Way of the Seeker
Written by Larry Sitsky in 2004, played by Michael Kieran Harvey, The Way of the Seeker is a highly virtuosic piano work. It is based on thematic material derived from fragments of oriental chant.