touring
south australia
february 2025
friday 14 february, 6.00pm
crafers church of the epiphany
$25/$35kids under 12 free
saturday 15 february, 7.30pm
nexus arts, adelaide
$25/$35kids under 12 free
sunday 16 february, 2.00pm
newland memorial church, victor harbor
$25/$30kids under 16 free
ensemble
violin ⥭ meg cohen (vic)
viola ⥭ katie yap (tas)
cello ⥭ david moran (sa)
program
jakub jankowski (aus) ⥭ the orchid and the wasp (world premiere)
j s bach ⥭ goldberg variations (selections)
anne cawrse (aus) ⥭ sanctuary
hildegard von bingen (arr. d nicolson) ⥭ ave generosa
missy mazzoli ⥭ lies you can believe in
bulgarian trad tunes
funding
Thanks to the Government of South Australia and Victor Harbor City Council for making this tour possible.
about
wattleseed ensemble's music is an invitation to intimacy; to the rawness of bowed strings and eucalypt forest; to connection.we weave together music of the baroque period 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.
media
sequentia/hildegard von bingen ⥭ processional of embodied souls
violin ⥭ natalia harvey
viola ⥭ katie yap
cello ⥭ lucy price
annlaug børsheim ⥭ da lounge bar
violin ⥭ natalia harvey
viola ⥭ katie yap
cello ⥭ lucy price
theorbo ⥭ nick pollock
meg cohen
co-artistic director/violin
meg is a violinist with a multi-faceted practice. she specialises in both modern and baroque violin, curating new projects and delving into chamber music.trained in sydney and now based in naarm, meg performs regularly with the melbourne chamber and Symphony orchestras, Genesis Baroque, and the Australian Haydn Ensemble. Meg has performed at all major festivals and venues across the country, and recorded with ABC Classics. She is the co-artistic director of Wattleseed Ensemble and artistic director of moirai ensemble.
katie yap
co-artistic director/viola
nipaluna/hobart-based Violist and curator Katie Yap offers a space of connection and beauty to her listeners. Her performances strive to be of the highest quality, and are presented in a down-to-earth way that allows the space to be shared freely and without airs. She presents with authenticity, and allows her audiences to come as they are.She is the 2022 Freedman Fellow, a 2023-4 Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker, a 2024-5 ANAM/Ian Potter Emerging Performer Fellow, a 2025-6 Van Diemen's Band Curation Fellow, and was the founding Artistic Director of 3MBS’ festival ‘Music, She Wrote'.Her greatest love is chamber music, and she is a founding member of the Gryphon Baryton Trio, baroque viola/synths duo Bronzewing, and is co-artistic director of Wattleseed Ensemble.She is currently apprenticed to great masters in the art of cooking Hainanese chicken rice and Dutch apple tart, and is studying diligently in those areas!
david moran
cello
David is an Australian cellist with broad musical interests specialising in the interpretation of exploratory music. Recent accolades include 5-star reviews in Limelight for Kate Neal’s, ‘While You Sleep’, at the Canberra International Music Festival, and for his performances in ‘1:1’ for the Adelaide Festival.David has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra for the 2022 and 2023 Lucerne Festivals. David recently completed a Master’s degree at Monash University under the supervision of Prof Cat Hope. His thesis, which was awarded a H1, focused on the impacts of extended cello techniques on virtuosity. David also studied at the Australian National Academy of Music under Howard Penny and completed a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours at the University of Adelaide.He has a longstanding duo with Dr Iran Sanadzadeh and is a regular casual cellist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. David has also appeared on the ABC television program, ArtWorks in a segment on extended technique.
