Moirai
Saturday 18 April 2026, 3.30pm
Museum of the Riverina,
Historic Council Chamber
243 Baylis Street Wagga Wagga
Moirai reimagines ancient music in a contemporary setting. Heralded for their dynamic and innovative performances, this versatile trio combines folk, medieval and improvised music with a curiosity for unusual rhythms and sounds. Moirai debuted in 2023 at 3MBS’ Music, She Wrote Festival celebrating female composers. They were 2024 Bundanon Artists in Residence, collaborating on new works with composer-improviser Chloe Kim. Moirai works annually with Monash University students, workshopping and performing new music. In 2025, Moirai performed for Monash’s International Women’s Day celebrations and are awarded funding through Creative Victoria to record an EP of Kim’s work.
Meg Cohen initiates engaging and diverse musical projects. She performs with Melbourne Chamber and Symphony orchestras, Genesis Baroque, and Opera Australia, and is AD of Moirai and Wattleseed ensembles. Meg has performed at all of Australia’s major festivals and venues, recorded with ABC Classics, and was a Freedman Fellowship nominee in 2023. Internationally, she has attended academies with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Geist Quartet.
David Moran specialises in contemporary and exploratory music. In 2023, he performed with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and toured with the ULYSSES Ensemble. David is published in a Routledge volume, and nominee for the Freedman Fellowship in 2022, and Australian Art Music award in 2023. He performs with the Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.
Alexander Meagher is a dynamic percussionist who enjoys surprising audiences with unique repertoire. He incorporates text, movement, gesture, and theatre to create evocative performances. Alexander has performed in orchestras, chamber music settings, musical theatre, soundtracks for dance and film, experimental opera, and arts festivals throughout Australia.
Presented in partnership with the Museum of the Riverina.
This performance is included in the Festival Pass and the Saturday Pass.
Moirai invites you to experience COSMOS, a musical celebration of celestial bodies through style and time. Our program explores the ways in which human fascination with the cosmos has inspired song and dance throughout history. From the stars as a manifestation of the divine, the sun as a radial emblem of imperial majesty, and the moon as a cosmic feminine principle, COSMOS contemplates how humans have sought to understand the great mysteries of our existence by turning to the sky. Moirai charts a course through the history of cosmic music, from Ancient Greece to modern day Sydney via a 12th century French monastery. Not limited to music in the western classical tradition, we also present folk songs from across the world from the scarlet evening sky illuminating the Pirin mountain range in Bulgaria, to Australian indigenous sacred ceremony in praise of Barnumbirr, Venus. Through COSMOS, Moirai praises the human spirit that has gazed with wonder at the sky and the celestial bodies from time immemorial.
Morning Star – trad. Indigenous Australian
Stella Splendens (Resplendent star on the mountain) – 14th century Spain
Reel Around the Sun (Riverdance)
Hymn to the Sun – Mesomedes of Crete
Aleni Zvezdi (Scarlet stars) – trad. Bulgarian
Apollinis Eclipsatur – c.1350 Bernard de Cluny
A set of stellar folk music from England and Ireland
When the moon wears mask – Chloe Kim
Music from Ilāhī – trad. Turkish
Starman – Kym Dillon
Approximately 70 minutes, no intermission. General admission.
About the Program
History never sounded so wild – for time travellers with mischief in their hearts.
