Meta Cohen is a composer, sound designer and dramaturg with work spanning music, theatre and interdisciplinary art. Their work has been commissioned and performed in diverse venues across Australia, the UK and the US, and has been described as ‘meteoric’ (ClassikON); ‘a captivating odyssey beyond the ordinary’ (What’s On Sydney) and ‘bristling with a rich tapestry of evocative music-making’ (Australian Arts Review). Meta’s music features on album releases from the ABC, Chandos (UK) and independent labels.

In their composition work, Meta often prioritises LGBTQIA+ work where possible. In 2022, Meta was a commissioned composer on the first queer classical album in Australia's history (Spectrum: Divisi Chamber Singers) and composed a new work in partnership with Homophonic, documenting Australia's LGBTQIA+ histories in music. Meta's queer song cycle a love is a love is a love, commissioned by ABC Classic, was released in June 2023 and features on the ABC’s Women of Note, Volume 6 album. Their Delphi Songs were recently featured as part of the 2024 ChamberQUEER Festival in New York.

Other notable works include Caedo, which was awarded in the Leonardo Da Vinci International Composition Competition in Florence; Sim Shalom, which features on an album released by Chandos; and Swerve, which was a finalist in the 2023 APRA AMCOS/Australian Music Centre Art Music Awards for Work of the Year (Choral). Their piece Meteora recently premiered as part of the Sydney Chamber Choir’s 50th Anniversary program.

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Evan Bryson is a queer artist and writer of fiction, comics and poetry. They are interested in historiography, remembrance, and narrative explorations of nonfiction, and more broadly in structure, information, and decline. They live and work in Australia.

Evan has an established and successful collaboration with composer Meta Cohen in works such as Caedo (awarded in the Leonardo da Vinci International Composition Competition in Florence) and Delphi Songs, which toured to the US in 2024 with pianist Coady Green and soprano Elizabeth van Os. Their work has been published in the Australian Music Centre catalogue.

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Alyson Campbell is an award-winning director and dramaturg whose work spans a broad range of companies and venues in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 30 years. Works include Feral Queer Camp, promiscuous/cities, Cake Daddy, Colder, DFLTLX, GL RY/WHoLE, The Trouble with Harry and Catapult.

Alyson is a Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where her research, artistic practice as a director, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality, particularly queer performance and dramaturgies and contemporary representations of HIV and AIDS. She likes to write about feral pedagogies and is passionate about Feral Queer Camping.

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One of Australia’s leading concert pianists, Coady Green is acknowledged as a major talent on the international concert circuit, having been described as “accurate and exhilarating...” and “a virtuoso pianist with sensitivity, intelligence and charm”, (Musical Opinion, London) with “a strong and versatile technique capable of the most delicate coloring and tonal brilliance” (The Advertiser, South Australia). During his eleven years in London, he frequently performed at all the major UK venues and established a prominent teaching career, including teaching posts at Goldsmiths College, The University of London and at the Royal College of Music, London. He regularly performs in major concert venues and at festivals throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America and is a frequent guest lecturer at numerous leading international tertiary institutions. He is passionate about new music, and commissions several major new works from Australian composers each year.

He was the recipient of major grants from the Australia Council for the Arts for new commissions in both 2020 and 2021. He teaches and lectures at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Coady is the current Staff Chair of the University of Melbourne’s Pride in Action Network committee, the main voice for the University on issues relating to the LGBTIQ+ community. He is on the board for Melbourne’s iconic gallery and theatre, fortyfivedownstairs.

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