In Residence: Lauren Tsamouras’ Another Green World

A collaboration between SIMA and The Vanguard, In Residence highlights the sound of Sydney music by presenting some of the city’s most distinctive creative voices in performance over the course of a month. Across weekly shows audiences are allowed to witness the construction, development and refinement of a musical conversation between some of the Sydney’s most iconoclastic artists. 

Lauren Tsamouras’ Another Green World explores meditative and intimate spaces to unite musicians and audience. Originally written for piano and double bass duo, she will be joined by various incredible musicians in the Sydney jazz and improvised music scene throughout her residency. Each week will feature original compositions from her debut album “Μητέρα/Mytera” and new unreleased works which will be adapted for trio and quartet formats.

Lauren Tsamouras is a pianist, composer, and improviser based in Warrang/Sydney. She leads and composes for her contemporary jazz and improvised music duo Another Green World, whose debut album Mytera was released in March 2023. In addition to her own project, Lauren performs regularly with a range of ensembles around Sydney including Pharos (led by Hannah James), Volant (led by Matt Ottignon), and Home Is (led by Hinano Fujisaki). In 2021, she was nominated for the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award, and in 2025 she became its recipient, supporting the recording of Another Green World’s forthcoming second album. She was also featured as an ABC Jazz Artist in Residence in early 2025, presenting original solo piano works alongside a selection of jazz repertoire, broadcast on the radio and social media.

Hilary Geddes is an award-winning guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land. She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader of the Hilary Geddes Quartet, and released her debut album ‘Parkside’ (ABC Jazz) with the band in 2021. ‘Parkside’ was subsequently nominated for an AIR award for Best Jazz Album, and was also ABC Jazz Feature Album of the Week.

Hailing from so-called Sydney, Australia, Jacques Emery is an artist, performer, composer and collaborator. He is known as a double bassist in Sydney’s genre-fluid experimental scene, and for crafting soundworlds as a non-virtuosic multi-instrumental solo artist. He also runs People Sound, a label devoted to exploratory instrumental music from so-called Australia.

Brendan Clark is an improvising bassist from Dharug country in NSW, Australia. He has played with musicians and artists including Bernie McGann, James Muller, Matt Keegan, Josh Pyke and Thelma Plum and leads the trio “Lisathe” alongside Ollie Thorpe and Miles Thomas. He also plays regularly and has recorded with the cross-cultural group “The Three Seas”.

Free entry with RSVP, doors 7pm.