12 June 2026, 7:30 PM
Nightingale Gallery, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia

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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.

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Composer Meta Cohen presents an evening of music that explores moments of queer love, playfulness and resistance across time. Featuring internationally celebrated artists Jessica Aszodi (mezzo-soprano), Rachael Joyce (soprano) and Coady Green (piano), this concert includes Meta Cohen’sSword Songs, a song cycle about 17th Century bisexual sword-fighting opera singer Julie d’Aubigny. The program intersperses this major work with pieces by contemporary and historical queer composers.