SELECTED PRESS & REVIEWS
NEW MUSIC STUDIO: OF BIRDS AND MONUMENTS
Julie McErlain, Classic Melbourne
“What began with pianist Coady Green’s ongoing collaborations and recordings with colleague and composer Professor Linda Kouvaras, has developed into a multi-faceted artistic performance, an inspiring event given its premier performance in the splendid auditorium at the Ian Potter Southbank Centre.
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For the opening Ngargee Tree, Green’s piano captured our attention with strong, dark and assertive chords and vibrant 21st Century harmonies. With clear political statements, Waterways gave us the customary sounds and colours of trills, rising arpeggiated patterns, sparkling flowing scale patterns and movement. In Heartbeat the repetition of a gentle single pitch underpinned higher repeated patterns. In the reading for Tanderrum (a coming together), we were reminded of the Aboriginal ceremony for sharing of gifts, water, eucalyptus leaves and resources, and the history of Melbourne. It also paid tribute to a sculpture with this name, (by indigenous artist Ellen Jose) on Herring Island’s Environmental Sculpture Park. Always Coady Green’s playing showed balanced power, assertiveness and great sensitivity in imitative effervescent sounds of nature and softer bird-like trills and flutters, timed perfectly with pre-recorded soundscapes, although in the second work the Grey Ghost was determined to defy gentle pitch as it expressed its discord with threats of extinction”
LINDA KOUVARAS: PIANO MUSIC, CHAMBER WORKS AND SONGS, VOLUME 2
Heather Leviston, Classic Melbourne
“How many concerts have we attended where a fascinating new work has been played, never or seldom to be heard again? Unfortunately, far too often. Thanks to the indefatigable curator and über-talented pianist Coady Green, and Toccata Classics, we have a project that documents the output of one of Australia’s foremost composers. But Volume 2 of Linda Kouvaras’s piano music, chamber works and songs is much more than a worthy enterprise. Comprising two significant works that have immediate appeal, this volume yields even richer rewards with repeated listening.
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Coady Green displays great command of all aspects of pianism, playing with persuasive conviction within a world of shifting emotions”
LINDA KOUVARAS: CHAMBER WORKS AND SONGS, VOLUME 1
Steve Moffatt, Limelight Magazine
“[Coady Green] met [Linda Kouvaras] as a student when she was a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium, so this album should be considered definitive. It is certainly beautifully performed by Green, who is joined by saxophonist Justin Kenealy for Night Pieces: Reflections after COVID-19, five diverse, short pieces written during Melbourne’s multiple lockdowns and for me the highlight of the album.”
AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY OPERA COMPANY: DANIELLE DE NIESE
Heather Leviston, Classic Melbourne
“Apart from de Niese herself, Coady Green was the busiest person on the stage. With the exception of the final work, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, which brought all artists back onto the stage, he was the sole accompanist after interval. His ability to switch idioms and establish mood – uptempo, laid-back, jazz, contemplative, dramatic – he was there with de Niese, skilled, supportive and stylish”
DUO ECLETTICO PRESENTS: PARADE
Julie McErlain, Classic Melbourne
“Coady Green’s programming for no less than 13 concerts in the 2024 Chamber Music Festival is an exciting and remarkable achievement, with diverse and stimulating content, many world premiers, and star quality musicians and composers.
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Green and Kenealy responded with perfectly balanced solos, weaving around the dialogue and adding thoughtful questioning phrases.
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We congratulate fortyfivedownstairs and Festival Director Coady Green for this splendid program”
DUO ECLETTICO
Julie McErlain, Classic Melbourne
“How wonderful it is to see a very special contemporary performing arts venue, fortyfivedownstairs, return to live performance, with Coady Green curating a varied and exciting summer season of five recitals featuring some of Melbourne’s brightest stars in classical and contemporary music. With a limited audience, tickets sold out for this opening night, so livestreaming continues to connect us to these exciting events. The shared interest of Duo Eclettico in promoting and exploring new works for sax and piano sowed the seeds for this enticing program.
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Jongo was followed by tremendous applause after its opening bars of dark earthy shadows built to higher registers, with freedom, chromaticism and increased energy and cross-rhythms reaching climactic fullness in a highly virtuosic ending”
COMPOSE QUEER x QUEERSTORIES
Heather Leviston, Classic Melbourne
“At a time when the world is becoming an increasingly uncertain place, Compose Queer x Queerstories comes with a sense of celebration and affirmation. Just as promised, what we heard were “stories of resilience, resistance and fierce queer pride, set to music and sung in soaring harmony.
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One of the outstanding features of the evening was its variety. While several pieces were a capella and sung in close harmony, there were many solo passages and the piano was an important contributor to several”
FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025
Classic Melbourne
“Those who attended last year’s fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival know that pianist extraordinaire, Coady Green, will have curated a festival like no other. Spanning 12 days ensures there will be something for everyone, from Beethoven fans to opera tragics. Patrons have often commented that the resonant acoustic and intimacy of fortyfivedownstairs makes it the ideal space for chamber music. Renowned pianist Coady Green certainly agrees, returning to program the third annual Chamber Music Festival”
REUNITED: STACEY ALLEAUME & HADLEIGH ADAMS (AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY OPERA COMPANY)
Paul Selar, Limelight Magazine
“The evening could not have sparkled without Green’s dexterity across the Steinway grand, his ability to mine the most from the music and the comradeship on show with his artists”
DUO ECLETTICO: FROM THE FOREST
Julie McErlain, Classic Melbourne
“If there is a concert that one would describe as perfect, this one had to be in the mix. Internationally recognised Australian musicians Coady Green (piano) and Justin Kenealy (saxophones) make a perfect duo, their choice of “complex and vibrant repertoire” by valued contemporary Australian composers in a perfect acoustic venue with supportive colour enhanced staging, and a perfect audience, which was engrossed, spellbound, held in silent attention for every minute of the performance, contributed to this perfect hour of music.”