5 June 2026, 7:00 PM
Nightingale Gallery, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia
Coady Green

Role: Composer
Piece: The Warning Never Heard
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Each June, Pride Month invites a renewed encounter with queer culture, celebrating its richness and power to shape the artistic landscape. In this spirit, Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.

Across four Friday evenings, leading Australian artists assume the role of curator-performer, each shaping a program of distinctive voice and vision. Drawing on music by LGBTQIA+ composers from Australia and abroad, these concerts traverse a wide and evocative terrain, foregrounding queer perspectives, reimagining inherited traditions, and illuminating histories too often left unheard.

Opening the festival, pianist Coady Green presents a program tracing a journey from creation to voice, and from stillness to urgent expression.

With evocative works by Inti Figgis-Vizueta and Nico Muhly, and sublime meditations by John Cage, the program also features Bryn Renard’s queer being, queer being, a deeply personal exploration of identity and transformation, and Meta Cohen’s The Warning Never Heard, a powerful new cycle of voice and testimony.

PROGRAM:

Inti Figgis-Vizueta: earthmaker (2020)

Bryn Renard: queer being, queer being (2026)

Nico Muhly: Drones and Violin (2011)

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John Cage: Dream

John Cage: In a Landscape

Meta Cohen: The Warning Never Heard:

i. one day

ii. you will know

iii. the truths

iv. she has spoken