Aaron Brown’s Early Modern in collaboration with Black Square String Quartet presents a program of new compositions based on early music sources. Ancient songs and dances are re-imagined in a novel fusion of early music, modal jazz and world music that delights the senses and blurs the boundaries between past and present.
Aaron Brown’s Early Modern ensemble
Aaron Brown • Baroque Violin / Rebec
Philip Griffin • Oud / Guitar / Rabab
Tunji Beier • Percussion
Samuel Vincent • Bass
Black Square String Quartet
Camille Barry • Violin
Eugenie Costello-Shaw • Violin
Charlotte Burbrook de Vere • Viola
Dan Curro • Cello
Australian born Aaron Brown is a performer and composer with a focus on historical instruments and repertoires, improvisation, and genre-bending new music based on historical sources. Aaron has worked extensively as a performer with many prominent artists and ensembles in Australia, the United States and Europe, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (where he is a current ensemble member), Farinelli and the King (Broadway production), New Vintage Baroque (contemporary music on period instruments), Oracle Hysterical (composers/performers collective), L’Arpeggiata, Francesco Tristano, Kinan Azmeh, Mark Morris Dance Group, Early Music New York, The Clarion Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, New Bach Players, New Juilliard Ensemble (premiering a work by Steve Reich), and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Le Poisson Rouge, National Sawdust, Rockwood Music Hall, BOZAR Brussels, Grand Teatre Luxembourg, the Arsenal in Metz, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia universities, City Recital Hall (Sydney) and the Melbourne Recital Centre. Recording credits include two solo albums, and numerous other releases on the ABC Classics, Hyperion, Naxos, CD Accord, and Lyrichord labels. Aaron is a member of ASCAP, and recordings of his compositions and arrangements have been played on Radio National and ABC Classic. In 2019 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct research in Europe in medieval and early modern performance practices and approaches to improvisation. Aaron is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Queensland, where he is a confirmed PhD candidate in music composition.
About Live at UQ Concert Series
The University of Queensland School of Music is proud to present our Concert Series for 2023. In reflecting the School's role in the broader South-East Queensland community, we have designed a diverse and exciting program. With established international and national artists performing, as well as our own emerging student artists, this year is set to be a vibrant, creative, and energetic time at the UQ School of Music. We look forward to connecting with you, as you explore this concert series, listen to our streamed and recorded concerts, and visit us at the St Lucia campus or browse through our website.