Croissants & Whiskey, a new Melbourne-based quartet pairing Baroque period instruments with new works from Australian composers, has announced its debut concert on 23 July. Made up of violone player Miranda Hill, recorder player Ryan Williams, harpsichordist Joy Lee and Baroque violist Katie Yap, the debut concert features new works written specially for the quartet by Elizabeth Younan, Louisa Trewartha and Williams. Younan’s piece, The Fertile Crescent was recorded by the group as part of the ABC Composer Commissioning Fund last year, with a recording being released later this month.
Croissants & Whiskey (clockwise from top left: Ryan Williams, Miranda Hill, Katie Yap and Joy Lee). Photo © Darren Gill.
Yap, recently named as a finalist for the Freedman Classical Music Fellowship, caught up with Limelight to discuss the ‘prog-baroque’ ensemble.
How did the ensemble come about, have you and the other musicians worked together before?
Croissants & Whiskey was a dream project that our G violone player, Miranda Hill instigated in 2021, during those long winter lockdowns in Melbourne when everyone was free, and yet no one could gather to play any...
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