12 – 15 March 2026
Make Your Entrance by Brooke Green is about body language, how performers walk on stage and celebrates important women in the time of Franz Joseph Haydn at the Esterhazy Court. The pianist Maria Anna von Genzinger was an influential correspondent with Haydn. Countess Ilona Zrinyi was a courgaeous leader of the Hungarian resistance against the Austrians. This is a playful piece that culminates with “A Toast to Papa Haydn” to make up for the many accolades he didn’t receive at this time. Commissioned by Laura Vaughan for concerts with The Gryphon Baryton Trio.
12 March – Sydney
14 March – Orange Chamber Music Festival
15 March – Bermagui
22 – 30 August 2026
Djeeban and the Moon is a new work by Brooke Green for two bass viols. Beginning with an evocation of the birth of the river, there is also an imagining/remembering of the influence of the moon with the pull of the tides. Djeeban-Port Hacking is the river of Brooke’s childhood in Gray’s Point, south of Sydney.
Djeeban is the Dharawal word for the Port Hacking River, as noted by Matthew Flinders before he named it after the convict Henry Hacking. Hacking’s legacy is mired in controversy as he is associated with violence against women and murder in the colony, including the death of the Bidijigal warrior Pemulwuy.
Djeeban and the Moon will be premiered by Laura Vaughan and Liam Byrne (Berlin) during their Liquid Threads tour of Australia.
22 August – Bundanon
23 August – The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House
25 August – Hobart
26 August – Launceston
28 August – Melbourne
30 August – Gippsland
Sunday 22 November 3pm
St Cecilia’s Day Concert 2026
Amazons Past and Present
Stories about the Amazons – a fierce and noble tribe of women warriors have long fascinated artists, writers, explorers and musicians. For St Cecilia’s Day 2026, Josie and the Emeralds present music with Amazonian themes from the Renaissance through to modern times.
The removal or binding of a breast by Amazons to enhance their archery skills has inspired many breast cancer patients. Currently, one in seven Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing an arduous regime of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and long-term medications often with difficult side-effects.
Dorothy Porter (1954 – 2008) was one of Australia’s most charismatic literary figures. After extensive treatment for breast cancer, she somewhat reluctantly identified as an Amazon. We will perform several of Brooke Green’s settings of her poetry.
In 2025 Brooke Green was diagnosed with breast cancer and for this concert, is writing music that reflects her experience of Amazonian transformation, along with a setting of Fanny Burney’s graphic description of her mastectomy in 1811.
Glebe Music Festival
Glebe Town Hall
Tickets
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