H.I.P.S.T.E.R. Online Lecture Series: Brooke Green
On Passion and Inspiration

Is all art autobiographical? How much of ourselves do we put into our work when we create or interpret? After many years as a performer on viol, vielle and baroque violin, Brooke Green returned to her childhood interest in music composition. Her music could be said to have recognisably early music sensibility within a contemporary context. In the first instance she usually composes for viols and period instruments, but lately she has been also writing for modern ensembles. Brooke is variously inspired by ancient myths and legends, outstanding female figures, brilliant performers, poets, and social justice issues, such as being outraged at Australia’s treatment of First Nations people and refugees. In this talk she introduces some of her works, explaining how these passions have inspired their creation and how she draws on historical compositional techniques.

About our guest:
Brooke Green is artistic director of the soprano and viol consort Josie and the Emeralds. In 2022 she was guest director, composer and performer with the Arafura Music Collective, Darwin. She is the recipient of 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, 2013. Published by PRB Music, Brooke is an associate composer with the Australian Music Centre. Her music can be heard on The Emerald Leopard (Tall Poppies TP233) and The Emerald Phoenix (Tall Poppies). As a graduate of the University of Sydney, Brooke was awarded the Donald Peart Prize for the most outstanding Bachelor of Music student across a range of subjects. With a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarship, she studied baroque violin at Royal Conservatory, The Hague and in London with Michaela Comberti. For several years Brooke played baroque and classical violin with London-based ensembles such as The Hanover Band and The Brandenburg Consort while researching and performing music by early women composers such as Élisabeth-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 she also was a performer of contemporary music on historical instruments.

About this event:
Bringing some of today's most innovative and thought-provoking research to a global online audience, H.I.P.S.T.E.R. presents five outstanding artists to share their recent work. Using H.I.P.S.T.E.R.'s online platform to deliver five monthly 1-hour lectures between September and November 2022 and then in February & March 2023, viewers are invited to discover new musical findings and pathways, in and around the peripheries of Early Music, Historically Informed Performance, composition, World Music, photography, and more!

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