Meyers and Yap
Credit: Richard Jupe, Albert Comper
Program
To be announced.
About the artists
Rachel Meyers is a Tasmanian violinist and violist, composer, and sound artist whose work spans folk and experimental traditions, electroacoustic composition, and ecological sound practice rooted in the cold southern coastline of Lutruwita/Tasmania.
As a performer, Rachel has toured nationally and appeared at major venues and festivals including Melbourne Recital Centre, UKARIA, Powerhouse Museum, MONA FOMA, Ten Days on the Island, Dark Mofo, and most folk festivals around the country. She has collaborated on original music across a range of ensembles over more than two decades.
Rachel is a founding member of Van Diemen's Fiddles and regularly performs with Van Diemen's Band; she is also well known to Lunchbox audiences via her duo with piano accordion player Dave Macnamara - Meyers & Macnamara.
Katie Yap is known for her deeply personal performances as modern and baroque violist; and a flair for thoughtful, narrative-driven programs as a curator. She was the 2022 Freedman Fellow, a 2023-4 Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker, a 2024-5 ANAM/Ian Potter Emerging Performer Fellow, a 2025-6 Van Diemen’s Band Curation Fellow, and was the founding Artistic Director of 3MBS’ festival ‘Music, She Wrote’.
Chamber music being closest to her heart, she is a founding member of the Gryphon Baryton Trio, baroque viola/synth duo Bronzewing, and is co-artistic director of crossover folk/baroque group Wattleseed Ensemble.
She performs regularly with Australia’s top period and modern groups including Van Diemen’s Band, the Orchestra of the Antipodes and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and toured with the Australian World Orchestra.
Katie loves slipping sideways from the classical genre, in particular towards folk music. She is a member of mixed fiddle quartet Van Diemen’s Fiddles, chamber folk band Where Water Meets, and sanshin-wielding duo Honmono no Gaijin.