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2019
PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY
OF PERFORMING ARTS
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Welcome
I am extremely proud that Edith Welcome to the wonderful world
Cowan University has been voted of WAAPA.
No. 1 in Creative Arts in the Our productions and concerts
national Quality Indicators for are the very core of the students'
Learning and Teaching (QILT) for training. Working with the finest
2018. In large part that is due to
international and national artists,
the excellence of WAAPA.
alongside WAAPA's dedicated
I am constantly amazed and staff, our exceptional students
delighted at the quality of the produce the most tantalizing
concerts and shows which I variety of performances
regularly attend. From superb throughout the year.
recitals on historical keyboard
instruments, to sumptuous Come and see for yourself why
musicals and innovative WAAPA is considered one of the
contemporary performances held best performing arts academies in
in The Edith Spiegeltent, there is the world.
truly something to suit all tastes.
Please join me at a range of these
incredible performances. Professor Julie Warn AM
Executive Dean and Director
Professor Steve Chapman CBE
Vice-Chancellor
OPEN DAY
SUNDAY 11 AUGUST, 10.00AM – 3.00PM
You're invited to come behind the scenes at WAAPA. ECU's Open Day at the
Mount Lawley campus gives you the perfect opportunity to see our talented students
in action in rehearsals, classes and short concerts. Speak with staff members about
course options and learn about auditions. Marvel at the design work, costumes and
props on display. Check out the superbly equipped lighting and sound studios, the
music technology labs and the scenery construction workshops. Explore the campus,
2019
take a backstage tour and attend information sessions. A detailed program of events
will be posted on the WAAPA website waapa.ecu.edu.au Image: Harpsichord soundboard decoration by Bruce Kennedy 2017
Founding Pianos. Photo by Kathy Wheatley
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Program Index
Mar Apr May Jun Aug Sep Oct Nov
15-20 4 2-4 1 1 6-7 6 1-2
The Cherry Musical Fairy Tales 9 Alchemy 11 Solo Stage: Pat Metheny The Warana Prize 21 Alice Giles: Life on Earth 46
Orchard 41 Here Now 46 Songbook 16 Harp Celebration 25
11&13 3-9 10 1-3
15-21 Katie Noonan When the Rain 1 7 Postgraduate 7-10 Reason for Being 36
Romeo and Juliet 40 in Concert 9 Stops Falling 41 Double Trouble! 15 Phat Funk! 17 Research Sound Spectrum
Showcase 37 2019.2 25 2
15-21 11 3-9 14-20 8
11-12 9 Festive Strings 29
The Wonderful Fauré's Requiem 10 Machinal 41 Love Me Tender 41 Full Blown
World of Dissocia 51 Wagner 16 Songbook The Parisian 15-21
13 4-10 14-20 Sessions 20 Guitar 26
16-23 Rise 34 9 Aboriginal
Beethoven: The Misanthrope 43 11-21 10 Performance 44
Company 50 Moonlight 6-10 Mix't Mallets 16
and Pathétique 11 15-22 Tilt 47 Australian Brass 16-23
22 Sound Spectrum 11 Quintet 26
18 2019.1 11 Strictly Ballroom 52 12 Verge 35
Defying Gravity Open Day 2
Under the Stars 9 11
Hooks, Riffs 9 Indian Ocean
11 15 21
Jul
23 and Grooves Ensemble Westwards by
The Music of Iceberg to
WAAPA in the People 12 Better Git it in 12-14 Tokyo Bay 26
Your Soul 16
the Park 8 11 Radio Active
28 22 Perth 21 11-17
Mozart to Birdland 43
Sondheim 12 Massed Sax 2019: Musicá Tambor 13
Whirled Music 15 Perú 18 11-17
11-12 Too Darn Hot! 21
Romantic 23 The Hope Fault 43
Paul Cesarczyk: 13-14
Tchaikovsky 13 12-19
Guitar Artistry 18 Power.Passion.
16 Percussion 22 Cry-Baby 51
23-29
From Beatles
An Ideal Husband 42 19-21 14-19
to Bowie 12
Steve Reich's Die Fledermaus 27
18 23-29 Drumming 23
12 The Taming of 16-19
Beats 'n' Pieces
the Shrew 43 25 Really Big
22-25 Royal Over-Seas Democracy 46
The Body Politic 36 24-31 League Showcase 25
Sweet Charity 51 17
23 26 Mesdames et
WAAPA Jazz Young 27-31 Crossing Borders 37 Messieurs 28
Artists Ensemble 14 Unleash 34 27 19
Edith Cowan University 23 29-30 Passionate Strings 24 The Seven Last
acknowledges and respects its Ecstatic Waters 14 Glory! 19 Words of Christ
continuing association with the 28 on the Cross 29
24 30 Marvels and
Nyoongar people, the traditional
Eine kleine Curiosities 25 23
Radio Active
custodians of the land upon Nachtmusik 14 Albany 18 Classical Music
which its campuses stand. TBA! Accolades 29
25 31 In the Dark 36
Brassed Off 31
14 Richard Bonynge
• Aboriginal Performance Returns Gala Concert 18 Spooktacular! 29
• Acting 29-31 30-31
• Dance
• Films
Solo Stage: Reason for Being 36
Here Now 46
• Music 31
• Music Theatre 30 Life on Earth 46
• Performing Arts The World of Sergei
• Research Rachmaninoff 15
4 Program Index 5
CLASSICAL VOICE & OPERA CLASSICAL
Music
FOUNDING PIANOS SERIES
Fauré's Requiem Defying Gravity Under the Stars Beethoven: Moonlight and Pathétique
Mozart to Sondheim Musical Fairy Tales Double Trouble!
Richard Bonynge Gala Concert Hooks, Riffs and Grooves Marvels and Curiosities
Die Fledermaus Alchemy The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
From Beatles to Bowie
COMPOSITION &
Beats 'n' Pieces JAZZ
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
Romantic Tchaikovsky Katie Noonan in Concert
Sound Spectrum 2019.1
Ecstatic Waters WAAPA Jazz Young Artists Ensemble
The Music of the People
Eine kleine Nachtmusik Brassed Off Returns
Sound Spectrum 2019.2
The World of Sergei Rachmaninoff Pat Metheny Songbook
Westwards by Iceberg to Tokyo Bay
Massed Sax 2019: Whirled Music Better Git it in Your Soul
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Full Blown Wagner Phat Funk!
Mix't Mallets Musicá Tambor Perú
Radio Active (Albany & Perth)
Glory! Paul Cesarczyk: Guitar Artistry Too Darn Hot!
Songbook Sessions The Warana Prize
Indian Ocean Ensemble SPECIAL EVENTS
Power.Passion.Percussion WAAPA in the Park
Steve Reich's Drumming
Passionate Strings
Royal Over-Seas League Showcase
Alice Giles: Harp Celebration
The Parisian Guitar
Australian Brass Quintet
Mesdames et Messieurs
Classical Music Accolades
Spooktacular!
Festive Strings
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6 Glitter and Be Gay 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath 7
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Defying Gravity FREMANTLE ARTS
CENTRE
Tickets
$24 Full
Bookings now open
Tickets fac.org.au
Under the Stars 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle $15 Concession/Friends or 9432 9555
Mar
M T W T F S S
Music Director
Tim White
Performed by
Percussion virtuosi Callum Moncrieff and Pavan Kumar Hari join
Defying Gravity to create musical magic. The rapturous sounds
of ancient and modern percussion soar through the trees and
Defying Gravity gardens of the Fremantle Arts Centre in an evening of musical
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percussion ensemble masterworks. Peter Sculthorpe's How the Stars Were Made
7.00pm with Callum Moncrieff fills the air with energy and rhythm, and Astor Piazolla's Tango
and Pavan Kumar Hari Suite brings the magic of Latin American dance to life. Enjoy an
*Gates open at
6.00pm unforgettable night of beautiful music under the stars!
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 5 Feb
Musical Fairy Tales AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 12 Feb
Apr Music Director
Tim White
Performed by
A night of fairy tales, surprise and magic as WAAPA's leading
Classical Music students perform a gorgeous program of chamber
music. Myths and stories abound, as student ensembles explore a
M T W T F S S Classical Music world of musical fantasy in Claude Debussy's delightful Children's
4 students Corner and Maurice Ravel's ravishing Mother Goose Suite.
7.30pm
Katie Noonan in Concert
GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
The multi-platinum selling and five-time ARIA award-winning
singer and songwriter Katie Noonan performs the timeless music
of Lennon, McCartney and more. One of Australia's best and
most beloved performers, the angelic voice of Noonan will be
WAAPA in the Park
accompanied by WAAPA's talented Jazz students in an evening
of outstanding artistry. Katie Noonan's visit is generously
supported by Brigid and Ronald W. Woss AM of the Woss Group
of Companies.
RON STONE PARK, Mount Lawley (opposite WAAPA)
Mar
M T W T F S S
An annual tradition since 2007, WAAPA in the Park is a family-
friendly evening of fabulous music performed in Ron Stone Park.
The City of Stirling, Edith Cowan University and WAAPA proudly
Music Directors Jamie Oehlers and Victoria Newton
Performed by Katie Noonan and Jazz students
present Australia's premier performing arts academy in concert.
Apr
23 Tickets
Be wowed by the phenomenal Phat Funk Band and WAAPA's most
$39 Full
7.00pm accomplished Jazz and Contemporary musicians as they rock, bop $27 Concession/Friends
and strut their way through an awesome collection of old and new
FREE EVENT funk, soul, pop and jazz classics. Bring your picnic rug and hamper, M T W T F S S Bookings open
and enjoy an evening of exciting musical talent. 11 13 Friends 5 Feb
Public 12 Feb
Music Directors Mike Eastman, Victoria Newton, Carrie Pereira and Chris Tarr 7.30pm
Performed by Jazz and Contemporary Music students
8 WAAPA in the Park 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Photo by Cybele Malinowski
Music 9
Fauré's Requiem Beethoven: Moonlight
and Pathétique
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
Tickets
$32 Full
$26 Concession/Friends
Bookings open
Friends 5 Feb
Public 12 Feb
ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL Victoria Square, Perth
Apr Performed by
Mike Cheng-Yu Lee
The exquisite Moonlight and Pathétique sonatas headline a
program of favourite Beethoven piano masterpieces performed
Apr Renowned Australian choral conductor
Jonathan Grieves-Smith, Artistic Director of
Melbourne's Hallelujah Junction and Hamer
M T W T F S S
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by visiting guest fortepianist, Mike Cheng-Yu Lee. An avid
proponent of historical pianos, Lee will perform on WAAPA's
world-class 18th century replica Walter fortepiano to bring
M T W T F S S Singers, leads WA's finest young singers Fri 12 Apr, 7.30pm
Beethoven's scintillating music to life.
11 and orchestral players in Gabriel Fauré's Sat 13 Apr, 3.00pm
Requiem, filling St Mary's Cathedral with the
7.30pm
transcendental beauty of this sublime work.
Performed with Telemann's Concerto in E minor
Tickets
$32 Full for Two Violins and Basso Continuo, Poulenc's
$26 Concession/Friends Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence and
Elgar's They Are At Rest, this promises to be a foundingpianos.com.au
Bookings open choral highlight event of the year.
Friends 5 Feb
Public 12 Feb Music Director Hooks, Riffs and RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 5 Feb
Jonathan Grieves-Smith
Performed by
Grooves AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 12 Feb
Apr
WAAPA Symphonic Choir, Chamber Choir,
Music Director From the smallest musical ideas come some of the greatest
Classical Voice students, String Camerata and
Matt Styles music. The infectious rhythms and riffs of Steve Martland,
Stewart Smith (organ)
Performed by Moondog, Michael Nyman and Philip Glass are performed by
M T W T F S S Matt Styles with the Classical, Jazz and Contemporary Music students. Under
18 Classical, Jazz and the direction of Matt Styles, they will be joined by WAAPA's
Contemporary sensational sax band 'Phone Co. to present a night of rapturous
7.30pm Music students melodies and energising minimalism. You'll be hooked!
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 2 Apr
Alchemy AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
May Music Director
Tim White
Performed by
The legendary Michael Askill founded Synergy Percussion and
inspired generations of Australian musicians to explore the
magical possibilities of percussion. Askill powers up Defying
M T W T F S S Defying Gravity Gravity with his extraordinary musical skills and experiences in a
2 3 4 percussion super-charged, dance-inspired evening of musical entertainment
ensemble with – a joyful and profound show brimming with surprise, delight
7.30pm Michael Askill and wonder… and supreme musicianship.
Matinee
Sat 4 May, 2.00pm
Sound Spectrum SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE
2019.1 ECU Mount Lawley FREE EVENT
May Music Director
Lindsay Vickery
Performed by
WAAPA's Composition and Music Technology students and staff
break out a stunning array of original works at ECU's Spectrum
Project Space. New voices of the next generation of composers,
M T W T F S S Composition and sound artists and improvisers will perform over 10 hours of
6 7 8 10 Music Technology world premieres. The concerts feature the Listener Ensemble,
students and staff ECUatorial, the Western Australian Laptop Orchestra, Shock of
7.30pm
the New and more.
10
10 Mozarts Requiem 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 11
The Music of
the People RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT Romantic
May
M T W T F S S
Music Director
Lindsay Vickery
Performed by
Composition and
This year marks 100 years since influential American folk singer/
songwriter and political activist Pete Seeger was born. Famous
for his songs Where Have All the Flowers Gone and If I Had
a Hammer, Seeger was a powerful force in popularising protest
Tchaikovsky
9 Music Technology folk songs and civil rights anthems such as We Shall Overcome. Romantic music at its best, as trumpet virtuoso
students and staff
7.30pm
Today's folk music has found voice in numerous sub-genres. In Brent Grapes - Principal Trumpet of WASO, Head
this concert the students reshape contemporary folk music to of Brass at WAAPA, and member of the Australian
reflect the rise of a myriad of sub-genres including psych-folk, Brass Quintet - joins the WAAPA Symphony
urban folk, nu-folk, acid folk and so many more. Orchestra in a thrilling concert of orchestral
masterworks. WAAPA graduate Christopher
Dragon, Associate Conductor of the Colorado
GOVERNMENT Tickets Bookings open Symphony, conducts Tchaikovsky's passionate
HOUSE BALLROOM $32 Full Friends 2 Apr Romeo and Juliet Overture; Grapes' trumpet soars
Mozart to Sondheim St Georges Tce, Perth $26 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr with beauty and drama in Arutiunian's beloved
Trumpet Concerto, and the orchestra dazzles in
May Music Director
Emma Matthews
Performed by
The magnificent Government House Ballroom is filled with the
glorious voices of WAAPA's talented Classical Voice students
as the WAAPA Symphonic Choir and Classical Voice senior
Tchaikovsky's spectacular and exciting Symphony
No 4. Don’t miss this astonishing performance!
M T W T F S S WAAPA Symphonic students sing repertoire from Mozart to Sondheim. Featuring Music Director
11 Choir and Classical Opera Australia singing star and WAAPA's Head of Classical Christopher Dragon
Voice students with Voice Emma Matthews and renowned Australian baritone Performed by
3.00pm Emma Matthews WAAPA Symphony Orchestra with soloist Brent Grapes
Michael Lewis, this will be a concert to remember.
and Michael Lewis
May
M T W T F S S
All Saints' College Centre
for Performing Arts
All Saints' College
11 Ewing Ave, Bull Creek
From Beatles RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 2 Apr 7.30pm
to Bowie AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
May Music Directors
Jonathan Paget
Melissa Fitzgerald
WAAPA's Classical Guitar students get their groove on! The
smooth, mellow sound of the nylon-stringed guitar might be
more often associated with classical music, but this concert
May Churchlands Concert Hall
Churchlands Senior
High School
M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 20 Lucca St, Churchlands
Performed by showcases arrangements of pop and rock classics from musical
16 Classical Guitar 12
legends such as the Beatles, Gypsy Kings, David Bowie and
students with
7.30pm
much more. 3.00pm
Plectra Guitar
Ensemble
Tickets Bookings open
$32 Full Friends 2 Apr
$26 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
All ticket sales through the WAAPA Box Office.
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 2 Apr
Beats 'n' Pieces AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
May Music Directors
Gene Koshinski
Tim Broscious
Multi-award-winning Quey Percussion Duo is internationally
renowned for dynamic performances that combine classical
training with a love of global and popular music. With jaw-
M T W T F S S Performed by dropping virtuosity and a flair for the unexpected, the North
18 Quey Percussion American duo of Gene Koshinski and Tim Broscious parade
Duo (USA) their musical skills and passions in this showcase performance.
7.30pm
12 Photo by Nik Babik Music 13
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WAAPA Jazz Young The World of Sergei Tickets Bookings open
Artists Ensemble THE EDITH FREE EVENT Rachmaninoff RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
$29 Full
$24 Concession/Friends
Friends 2 Apr
Public 9 Apr
May Music Director
Jamie Oehlers
Performed by
In an exciting collaboration, WAAPA and WAYJO come together
to present a showcase of the rising stars of the jazz world.
High school students from Years 10, 11 and 12 across WA are
May Music Director
Anna Sleptsova
Performed by
Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the last great pianist-composers
in a tradition stretching back to Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt and
Brahms. His works pushed the values of the Romantic era deep
M T W T F S S Jamie Oehlers and invited to perform with this elite group and receive tutoring by M T W T F S S Classical Piano into the 20th century, and remain an essential part of today's
23 selected WA high WAAPA's own, Jamie Oehlers. The group meets for six weeks 30 students classical repertoire. WAAPA's leading piano students celebrate the
school jazz students to workshop tunes and ideas for exploration and improvisation, music of Rachmaninoff and his contemporaries in what will be a
7.00pm 7.30pm
culminating in this unique concert. night to remember.
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 2 Apr
Ecstatic Waters AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
Tickets Bookings open
May Music Director
Philip Everall
Performed by
WAAPA's Symphonic Wind Ensemble explores the extremes
of human emotion in a concert of contrasts. Stephen Bryant's
epic work Ecstatic Waters pits the expression of our young
Double Trouble!
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
$32 Full
$26 Concession/Friends
Friends 2 Apr
Public 9 Apr
M T W T F S S
7.30pm
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Symphonic Wind
Ensemble with
Michael Howell
musicians against the rigour and power of electronic sounds
– and the result is exhilarating! This concert also features the
sublime classic Concertino for Flute and Wind Ensemble by
Jun Music Director
Geoffrey Lancaster
Performed by
Join Geoffrey Lancaster and James Huntingford as they present
a celebration of music written for two fortepianos and four
hands. Enjoy a dazzling selection of 18th century sonatas and
(flute) M T W T F S S Geoffrey Lancaster duettos from JC Bach, Johann Gottfried Müthel and WA Mozart,
Cécile Chaminade, expertly performed by WAAPA's own flute
tutor, Michael Howell. 1 and James brought to life by the enticing voices of the pianos of the time.
Huntingford
3.00pm
Eine kleine RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 2 Apr
Nachtmusik AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
foundingpianos.com.au
May Music Directors
Paul Wright
Geoffrey Lancaster
Its official title might be Serenade No.13 in G Major K.525, but
everyone knows it by the nickname its brilliant composer gave
it: Eine kleine Nachtmusik. This perennial Mozart favourite is
M T W T F S S Performed by performed by the WAAPA String Camerata along with Joseph
24 String Camerata,
Paul Wright
Haydn's passionate Symphony No. 44 in E minor. An evening of Massed Sax 2019: HALE SCHOOL
Unwin Ave,
Tickets
$20 Full
Bookings open
Friends 2 Apr
7.30pm (violin) and
succulent and sublime classical music.
Whirled Music Wembley Downs $15 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
Geoffrey Lancaster
Jul
(fortepiano) Music Director Now in its seventh year, the WAAPA Massed Sax project is on
Matt Styles again! The first and still only one of its kind in Australia, this
Performed by event brings together staff and students from a number of
M T W T F S S Matt Styles, schools across WA, along with saxophone enthusiasts from
Tickets Bookings open
28 WAAPA 'Phone Co. the wider community. Led by WAAPA saxophone lecturer Matt
$20 Full Friends 2 Apr
Brassed Off Returns THE EDITH $15 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr 7.00pm
and the Massed Sax
Orchestra
Styles and WAAPA's 'Phone Co., this is an event where the
saxophone brings together jazz, classical, contemporary and
May Music Director
Jeremy Greig
Performed by
Last year's hit concert Brassed Off returns for 2019! Join
WAAPA's Jazz Brass students and special guests as they lift
the roof off The Edith Spiegeltent with favourite New Orleans
'whirled' music!
Join the 2019 Massed Sax Orchestra by registering as a
participant or be a supporter in the stands by purchasing a
M T W T F S S John Inverarity Music
Jazz Brass funk and street grooves. Be blown away by their high-energy ticket for the concert.
25 and Drama Centre
students, staff and renditions of the music of Youngblood brass band, Dirty Catfish, HALE SCHOOL See website for further details waapa.ecu.edu.au
community and many more New Orleans beats. Unwin Ave
7.30pm
Wembley Downs
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Pat Metheny Tickets
$20 Full
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Songbook THE EDITH $15 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Aug Music Director
Freddie Grigson
Performed by
American jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny is the only
musician to win Grammy Awards in 10 categories. He has
played with music greats such as Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell,
M T W T F S S Jazz Guitar Chick Corea and Michael Brecker, and his compositions have
1 students dominated the contemporary jazz, Latin and jazz-fusion genres
7.30pm
for more than four decades. WAAPA's Jazz Guitar students
honour this guitar great in a concert of music from the Metheny
songbook, spanning his exceptional career.
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 23 Jul
Full Blown Wagner AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Aug Music Directors
Brent Grapes
Philip Everall
Renowned for their mastery of orchestral colour, the treatment
of the brass and woodwinds by Richard Wagner and Richard
Strauss has left a lasting legacy on composers to this day. This
M T W T F S S Performed by concert showcases some of the greatest brass moments from
8 Brass and these late-Romantic giants, including the rich tonal tapestry of
Woodwind students Strauss' Feierlicher Einzug and The Gathering of the Armies
7.30pm
from Wagner's opera Lohengrin.
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 23 Jul
Mix't Mallets AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Aug Music Director
Paul Tanner
Performed by
Paul Tanner is one of Australia's most versatile percussionists,
performing with new music groups including Magnetic Pig,
Nova Ensemble and New York's Bang on a Can All-Stars.
M T W T F S S Paul Tanner and The core of Paul's percussion set-ups is the marimba and
9 guests vibraphone, and he features these entrancing instruments in a
Phat Funk!
7.30pm
program of his favourite solos, featuring some surprise musical
guests including the Mix't Trio.
THE EDITH
Better Git it in
Your Soul THE EDITH
Tickets
$20 Full
$15 Concession/Friends
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
Aug Get down and boogie with a choice selection of
classic soul, neo-soul, funk and R&B favourites in a
concert of sensational sounds and glorious grooves
M T W T F S S by the WAAPA Phat Funk Band. These talented
Aug Music Director
Pete Jeavons
Performed by
Charles Mingus was a firebrand bandleader, virtuoso jazz
musician and prolific composer. His music, with its rapid
shifts in mood and tempo, blurred the boundaries between
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7.30pm
student musicians will bring the house down with
their powerful performance, soaring horn section and
blistering solos.
M T W T F S S Mingus Ensemble improvisation and composition. WAAPA's Jazz students play a Tickets
15 Music Director Ben Falle
selection of Mingus' most famous works, tinged with soul, hard $20 Full
bop, gospel, free jazz and classical music, in an uplifting tribute $15 Concession/Friends Performed by Phat Funk Band with Ben Falle
7.30pm
concert to this American jazz legend.
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
16 WAAPA in the Park 2017. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 17
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Glory!
Tickets Bookings open
$20 Full Friends 23 Jul
Musicá Tambor Perú THE EDITH $15 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Aug Music Director
Daniel Susnjar
Performed by
A festive family evening of dynamic, passionate music! Be part
of a live recording of Afro-Peruvian music composed by multi
award-winning drummer/composer/educator Daniel Susnjar,
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
M T W T F S S Daniel Susnjar and who drew inspiration from overseas stints soaking up coastal
22 WAAPA Mini Big Peruvian rhythms. The outstanding WAAPA Mini Big Band gets
7.30pm
Band a Latin-beat boost from Susnjar's expert drumming skills and
standout WAAPA Percussion students performing on traditional
Peruvian instruments.
Aug Two of WAAPA's outstanding showcase choirs
come together to raise the roof with glorious choral
singing. Hear the joyful sound of young voices singing
M T W T F S S heavenly praises, with repertoire from the 16th
29 30 century through to the modern era. These two hugely
popular choirs, led by two extraordinary directors, will
7.30pm
Paul Cesarczyk: RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul Tickets
bring tears to your eyes - for all the right reasons!
Guitar Artistry AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul $29 Full Music Directors
$24 Concession/Friends Micheál McCarthy and Carrie Pereira
Aug Performed by
Paul Cesarczyk and
Jonathan Paget
Polish-born American classical guitarist Paul Cesarczyk made
his New York City debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 17. Since
then, he has built an international reputation as an exceptional
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
Performed by
Eneksis Vocal Ensemble and
WAAPA Gospel Choir
M T W T F S S soloist and brilliant teacher at Mahidol University in Thailand. In
23 this concert of classical guitar artistry, Cesarczyk performs solo
7.30pm
and is joined by WAAPA's own Jonathan Paget for duets on
19th century guitars.
ALBANY Bookings open
ENTERTAINMENT Tickets Tuesday 20 Jun
CENTRE $36 Full ticketek.com.au
Radio Active Albany 2 Toll Place, Albany $26 Concession/Friends Tel: 9844 5005
Aug Music Directors
Mike Eastman
Ric Eastman
Radio Active in residence is a unique performance presented
by the students of Albany Senior High School, Great Southern
Grammar and WAAPA. It is the culmination of a series of
M T W T F S S Carrie Pereira
workshops run over a week by the WAAPA Contemporary Music
30 Performed by staff combining secondary and tertiary students, who present a
Contemporary Music special, one-off performance in one of WA's finest theatres.
7.30pm students with
Albany Senior High The performance covers a wide musical base from pop to rock,
School and R 'n' B to soul and funk classics in a spectacularly produced
Great Southern concert with a huge cast of talented young musicians and
Grammar students singers.
Richard Bonynge RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$35 Full
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Gala Concert AUDITORIUM $29 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Aug Music Director
Emma Matthews
Performed by
WAAPA, in partnership with the West Australian Opera,
welcomes Maestro Richard Bonynge for an evening of stories
and songs. Join us for a gala concert in his honour, as rising stars
M T W T F S S Classical Voice of the Classical Voice department sing the bel canto repertoire
31 students loved by this great Australian conductor. After the concert enjoy
a complimentary glass of bubbly and hear opera stories aplenty
7.30pm
with Richard and Australia's favourite soprano, Emma Matthews.
18 Rejoice 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 19
19Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 23 Jul
The Warana Prize AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Sep Music Director
Peter Moore OAM
Performed by
A night of drama and superb musicianship as WAAPA's three
leading instrumentalists join the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra
to battle it out in the final of the prestigious 2019 Warana
M T W T F S S WAAPA Symphony Prize, as each student performs their favourite concerto
6 7 Orchestra with the movement. To round out the program, inspirational conductor
finalists for the Peter Moore leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn's evocative
7.30pm 2019 Warana Prize Hebrides Overture and Elgar's beloved Enigma Variations. A
wonderful evening of orchestral music at its best.
Indian Ocean RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Ensemble AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Sep Music Directors
Paul Wright
Tim White
WAAPA's elite student chamber ensemble dazzles in a program
of superb chamber music, including an arrangement of Richard
Strauss' tone poem Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, the musical
M T W T F S S Performed by misadventures of a German peasant, and Bohuslav Martinů's
12 Indian Ocean jazz-inspired La Revue de Cuisine, a delightful musical ballet for
Ensemble kitchen utensils. WAAPA's leading music students entertain you
7.30pm
with their imagination and virtuosity.
Tickets Bookings open
GEOFF GIBBS $37 Full Friends 23 Jul
Radio Active Perth THEATRE $27 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Songbook Sep Music Directors
Mike Eastman
Ric Eastman
Radio Active is a high-energy celebration of chart toppers from
the 50's through to today's hits. The show features a diverse
repertoire of music from pop to rock, R'n'B to soul and funk
M T W T F S S Carrie Pereira
classics in a spectacularly produced concert with a huge cast of
Sessions
7.30pm
12 13 14 Performed by
Contemporary
Music students
highly talented young musicians and singers.
THE EDITH
WAAPA's Music Artists present their fabulous original
works along with creative rearrangements of iconic
tunes from song masters of our modern times. The Tickets Bookings open
$20 Full Friends 23 Jul
performances include solo, duo, trio and band pieces
plus full vocal choir renditions.
Too Darn Hot! THE EDITH $15 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
Music Director Vinnie Crea
Performed by Music Artist students Sep Music Director
Victoria Newton
Performed by
Come and be serenaded by the WAAPA Jazz Vocal Ensemble
as they propel you into the wonderful world of close harmony,
hot jazz and blazing grooves! Cool down to the timeless classics
Sep Tickets
$20 Full
$15 Concession/Friends
M T W T F S S
7.30pm
13
Jazz Vocal
Ensemble
of Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, and Duke Ellington;
swoon to the sounds of sun-drenched samba, soul and bossa
nova; with beautifully crafted arrangements made famous by
M T W T F S S New York Voices, The Idea of North, Real Group, London Vocal
11 12 Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul Project and more.
7.30pm Public 30 Jul
20 Songbook Sessions 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 21Power.Passion.Percussion Steve Reich's Drumming
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
Sep International percussion virtuosi Fiona Digney (multi-
percussion) and Robert Oetomo (marimba and
vibraphone) dazzle with their extraordinary skills and
Sep Steve Reich's masterpiece, Drumming, is an
overwhelming and unforgettable experience. Unique,
astonishing, pioneering, enchanting and mesmerising,
M T W T F S S musicianship in a celebration of the imagination, energy, M T W T F S S Drumming sweeps audiences into another realm –
13 14 passion and power of percussion. Defying Gravity joins 19 20 21 a musical universe where time stands still, where rhythms
in to explore a mystical world of exotic instruments, shimmer with joy, and melodies unfold until they sparkle
7.30pm seductive timbres, breathtaking images, and the 7.30pm like stars in the sky.
overwhelming power of rhythm! Matinee
Tickets
$29 Full Sat 21 Sep, 2.00pm Music Directors
$24 Concession/Friends Music Director Aaron Logan, Fiona Digney and Tim White
Tickets
Bookings open Tim White $29 Full Performed by
Friends 23 Jul Performed by $23 Concession/Friends Defying Gravity
Public 30 Jul Fiona Digney and Robert Oetomo with Defying Gravity
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
22 Photo by Kathy Wheatley Music 23
23Passionate Strings Royal Over-Seas
League Showcase RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
Tickets
$24 Flat fee
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
A night of romance and passion, as Paul Wright directs WAAPA's
String Camerata in a ravishing program of music for strings. From the
Sep Music Director
Stewart Smith
Performed by
The Royal Over-Seas League assists WAAPA's most talented
music students to achieve their dreams on stage in Australia and
internationally. This concert showcases the winners of the ROSL
dynamic sounds of the Baroque through to the magical world of high M T W T F S S Winners of the prizes in Chamber Music, the Music of Bach, Improvisation, Art
romance, the String Camerata transports you to a place of dreams, 25 2019 ROSL Music Song, Early Keyboard and Composition. WAAPA is proud to
centred around the rich melodic tapestry of Joseph Suk's masterpiece, Prizes partner with the Royal Over-Seas League in recognising and
Serenade for Strings in E-flat major. Be swept away by a night of 7.30pm
supporting the stars of tomorrow.
soaring string music!
Music Director Paul Wright
Performed by String Camerata and Paul Wright
Marvels and Tickets Bookings open
Sep Tickets
$29 Full
$24 Concession/Friends
Curiosities
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
$32 Full
$26 Concession/Friends
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
M T W T F S S
27 Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Sep Music Director
Geoffrey Lancaster
Performed by
WAAPA staff and students introduce and play instruments
from WAAPA's astonishing collection of Historical Keyboard
Instruments. Square pianos, grands of varying ages and
7.30pm Public 30 Jul M T W T F S S Piano students and nationalities, harpsichord, clavichord, harmonium and antique
28 Geoffrey Lancaster synthesisers – this is a concert to fire the imagination, move
the heart and to delight the ear.
3.00pm
foundingpianos.com.au
Tickets
Alice Giles: RICHARD GILL
$30 Full
$20 Concession/Friends
Bookings open
Public 23 Jul
Harp Celebration AUDITORIUM FREE 12 years and under harpsocietywa.org.au
Oct
M T W T F S S
Music Director
Alice Giles
Performed by
In the hands of the brilliant Alice Giles AM, the sound of the
harp ignites the imagination and transports listeners to places
of exotic beauty. One of the world's leading harp soloists, the
Alice Giles and Australian-born musician leads the Perth Harp Festival in a
6 stars of the Perth celebration of exquisite harp music showcasing the talents of
Harp Festival Perth's harpists.
2.00pm
All ticket sales through The Harp Society of WA.
Sound Spectrum SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE
2019.2 ECU Mount Lawley FREE EVENT
Oct Music Director
Lindsay Vickery
Performed by
WAAPA's Composition and Music Technology students and
staff break out a stunning array of original works at ECU's
Spectrum Project Space. New voices of the next generation of
M T W T F S S
Composition and composers, sound artists and improvisers perform over 10 hours
7 8 9 10 Music Technology of world premieres. The concerts feature the Listener Ensemble,
students and staff ECUatorial, the Western Australian Laptop Orchestra, Shock of
7.30pm
the New and more.
24 Glitter and be Gay 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 25The Parisian
Guitar RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
Tickets
$29 Full
$24 Concession/Friends
Bookings open
Friends 10 Sep
Public 17 Sep Die Fledermaus
Oct Music Director
Jonathan Paget
Performed by
Join us for a celebration of the beauty, passion and romance
of the Parisian guitar. From 16th century counterpoint through
to post-modern guitar bards such Dyens and Kleynjans,
GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
Oct
M T W T F S S Created by the waltz king Johann Strauss Jr,
Classical Guitar the French have had a long love affair with the guitar. Enjoy
9 students, musical gems from this rich body of work performed by the Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is a heady mix of
Plectra Guitar Classical Guitar students and Plectra Guitar Ensemble, with sparkling music wrapped around a brilliant
7.30pm M T W T F S S farce. In this lighthearted tale of love, revenge
Ensemble and a highlight performance by WAAPA's classical guitar expert
the Indian Ocean
Jonathan Paget of Ferdinando Carulli's Petit Concerto 14 15 16 17 18 19 and mistaken identities, the madcap action
Ensemble with follows Eisenstein who would rather party than
Jonathan Paget
de Société on a period instrument, accompanied by the 7.30pm
Indian Ocean Ensemble. go to gaol; his wife Rosalinde who is keen to
teach him a lesson; and their pert maid Adele,
Tickets whose eye for the main chance is unwavering.
$45 Full
$39 Concession/Friends In this effervescent new production, Viennese
decadence is a natural match for the neurotic
Bookings open escapism of contemporary celebrity culture.
Friends 10 Sep
Public 17 Sep Director
Australian Brass RICHARD GILL
Tickets
$29 Full
Bookings open
Friends 10 Sep
Rachel McDonald
Quintet AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 17 Sep
Music Director
Burhan Güner
Performed by
Oct Performed by
Australian Brass
Quintet
Australia's most outstanding brass players dazzle in a concert
of showcase works for brass quintet. Led by David Elton, former
Head of Brass at WAAPA and now Principal Trumpet of the
Classical Voice students with the
WAAPA Symphony Orchestra
M T W T F S S
London Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Brass Quintet is a
10 who's who of Australian brass – starring Elton and Brent Grapes
7.30pm (WAAPA, WA Symphony Orchestra and Australian World
Orchestra) on trumpet, Ben Jacks (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
on horn, Scott Kinmont (Sydney Symphony Orchestra) on
trombone and Shannon Pittaway (NZ Symphony and Australian
World Orchestra) on bass trombone. This is brass at its best!
Westwards by Iceberg RICHARD GILL
to Tokyo Bay AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT
Oct Music Director
Lindsay Vickery
Performed by
In 1969, The Scratch Orchestra sprang into being in London.
Led by Cornelius Cardew, this experimental music ensemble
spent the next five years challenging the ideas of what it is to be
M T W T F S S
Composition and a composer, a musician, an audience, an amateur or an expert.
11 Music Technology This grand experiment in collective music-making allowed
students and staff anyone to join, used graphic scores, and emphasised free
7.30pm
improvisation. Fifty years on, WAAPA's Composition and Music
Technology students celebrate the zany, shape-shifting world of
The Scratch Orchestra.
26 Music 27
27Mesdames et Messieurs The Seven Last Words
of Christ on the Cross RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
Tickets
$32 Full
$26 Concession/Friends
Bookings open
Friends 10 Sep
Public 17 Sep
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
Oct Book a ticket and take a step back into time as WAAPA's
multi-talented team of pianists and the illustrious Professor
Oct Performed by
Geoffrey Lancaster
Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
is a deeply moving masterwork that serves as a meditation on
the Passion of the God-Man. Filled with gravitas, hope and the
David Tunley recreate the sophisticated and intimate M T W T F S S 'light' of redemption, Haydn regarded this work as the best that
M T W T F S S musical salons of France. These fashionable drawing rooms 19 he had composed. Originally written for orchestra, Geoffrey
17 in nineteenth-century Paris became an important feature Lancaster performs a version for solo fortepiano that was
3.00pm
7.30pm of cultural life as well as a platform to launch the careers of praised and sanctioned by the composer himself.
many musicians. Enjoy a selection of well-loved and hidden
Tickets gems from the French piano repertoire.
$29 Full
$24 Concession/Friends Mesdames et Messieurs, be our guest!
Music Director
Bookings open
Anna Sleptsova foundingpianos.com.au
Friends 10 Sep
Public 17 Sep Performed by
Classical Piano students with Master of
Ceremonies David Tunley
Classical Music RICHARD GILL Tickets
Bookings open
Friends 10 Sep
Accolades AUDITORIUM $24 Flat fee Public 17 Sep
Oct Music Director
Stewart Smith
Performed by
A night of celebration and achievement as WAAPA's Music
prizewinners showcase their extraordinary skills. Every year,
WAAPA's top classical musicians vie for a glittering series of
M T W T F S S 2019 Music performance prizes and scholarships. Tonight, the recipients of
23 Prizewinners these prizes dazzle you with their award-winning virtuosity.
7.30pm
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 10 Sep
Spooktacular! AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 17 Sep
Oct Music Director
Philip Everall
Performed by
It's on again! WAAPA's Symphonic Wind Ensemble celebrates
Halloween in style with a rip-snorter of a concert! Featuring John
Adams' modern classic A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and
M T W T F S S Symphonic Wind Jeffrey Hass' especially spooky Lost in the Funhouse, this concert
31 Ensemble will be a refreshingly fun and fiery end to the concert season.
7.30pm
Tickets Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $29 Full Friends 10 Sep
Festive Strings AUDITORIUM $24 Concession/Friends Public 17 Sep
Nov Music Director
Paul Wright
Performed by
Described as 'the most ethereal of Brahms's larger works',
the String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 is a musical love
letter to Agathe von Siebold, with whom the composer was
M T W T F S S String students romantically linked. Their relationship had ended by the
2 time Brahms completed the Sextet, giving the entire work a
7.30pm
bittersweet tone. Rounding out the program will be a selection
of beautiful solo and ensemble works guaranteed to lift the
spirits and move the soul.
28 Classical Music Accolades 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Music 29FREE LUNCHTIME
CONCERTS
CLASSICAL TUESDAYS BOX BEATS GRINDHOUSE GROOVES
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM MUSIC BOX GRINDHOUSE CAFE
1.10PM 12.30PM, JAZZ TUESDAYS 12.30PM, JAZZ and CONTEMPORARY
GRADUATION
A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime 2.30PM, CONTEMPORARY WEDNESDAYS Break for lunch and groove along with
concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests WAAPA's Jazz and Contemporary Music WAAPA's Jazz and Contemporary Music
serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry
ears!
staff and students, along with special visiting
guests, provide energetic sounds for that
afternoon pick-me-up.
students at the Grindhouse Café.
26 February Contemporary Music
RECITALS
Semester 1 5 March Contemporary Music Graduation recitals are the highlight of a music
27 February Contemporary Music student's studies and bring WAAPA's 2019
26 February Student Showcase 26 March Contemporary Music
12 March Jazz Staff music calendar to a thrilling conclusion. After
5 March Craig Dalton (piano) and 21 May Contemporary Music years of hard practice and performance the
Fiona McAndrew (voice) 13 March Contemporary Music
28 May Contemporary Music standard of these recitals is exceptional as is
12 March Mix't Trio 27 March Contemporary Music
30 July Contemporary Music the diversity on offer.
19 March Postcards from WAAPA Staff 16 April Afro Peruvian Ensemble
6 August Contemporary Music Don't miss these fabulous concerts spanning
26 March Piano Showcase 17 April Contemporary Music classical, contemporary and jazz. There is
20 August Jazz Vocal Ensemble
15 May Contemporary Music something for every type of music lover. You
2 April Symphonic Choir 17 September Contemporary Music
29 May Contemporary Music will witness outstanding ensembles of every
16 April Sound Spectrum Redux I 15 October Contemporary Music size and variation performing repertoire
30 April Defying Gravity 7 August Contemporary Music from across the spectrum as well as plenty of
14 May Warana Prize Semifinal 21 August Contemporary Music stunning original works by the Composition &
10 September Jazz Ensemble Music Technology students.
21 May Symphonic Wind Ensemble
28 May Eneksis Vocal Ensemble 25 September Contemporary Music
16 October Contemporary Music STUDIO SESSIONS Jazz and Contemporary Music
Semester 2 22 October Jazz Ensemble THE ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB
JAZZ STUDIO
30 July Edward Neeman (piano) 191 Beaufort Street, Perth
23 October Contemporary Music 1.10PM, CONTEMPORARY WEDNESDAYS
6 August Royal Over-Seas League OCTOBER – NOVEMBER
29 October Jazz Ensemble Uplifting sets of acoustic rock, folk, soul
Bach and Art Song Competitions These recitals are ticketed and bookings are
30 October Contemporary Music and pop from WAAPA's talented singer-
13 August Richard Gill Award essential via ellingtonjazz.com.au
songwriters.
20 August Guitarissimo!
20 March Contemporary Music
27 August Indian Ocean Ensemble Music Artists
10 September Royal Over-Seas League
SPIEGEL JAZZ 3 April Contemporary Music
THE EDITH
1 May Contemporary Music
Chamber Music Competition THE EDITH 14-15 NOVEMBER
22 May Contemporary Music
17 September Defying Gravity 12.30PM, JAZZ TUESDAYS
31 July Contemporary Music
24 September Sound Spectrum Redux II Put a spring in your step with these energising
15 October Piano Showcase free jazz gigs.
14 August Contemporary Music Classical Instrumental, Classical Voice
28 August Contemporary Music and Composition & Music Technology
22 October Symphonic Wind Ensemble 19 March Jazz Ensemble
29 October Eneksis Vocal Ensemble RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
2 April Blakey Ensemble
NOVEMBER
30 April Mingus Ensemble
14 May Latin Ensemble
27 August Jazz Ensemble See website one month prior to recital date for
full details waapa.ecu.edu.au
24 September Jazz Ensemble
30 Music 31Dance
Rise
Unleash
Verge
The Body Politic
In the Dark
Reason for Being
32
32 Verge 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath 33
33Rise GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
Verge GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
May WAAPA's first dance season for the year lifts off with neo-classical and
contemporary dance works created by international and award-winning Nov
M T W T F S S
On the verge of their professional careers,
WAAPA's graduating dancers celebrate their
final season as students in a dazzling display
choreographers. Sasha Janes, faculty member at Indiana University
16
of technical skill, versatility and passionate
M T W T F S S Bloomington, brings his extensive international experience as a dancer
performance. WAAPA welcomes acclaimed
4 and choreographer back home; local dance legend Claudia Alessi, 18 19 20 21 22 23
Belgium-based dancer, choreographer
6 7 8 9 10 whose multi-awarded career spans 27 years, promises an exciting mix
7.30pm and teacher Helder Seabra, founder of
of dance and physical theatre; Melbourne-based Lauren Langlois is
7.30pm HelKa vzw and former dancer with renowned
an award-winning dancer and emerging choreographer who was the Tickets dance companies Wim Vandekeybus and
recipient of the 2017 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship; and WAAPA's Classical $34 Full
Tickets Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; award-winning Australian
Dance Coordinator Kim McCarthy was principal dancer with the $29 Concession/Friends
$28 Full dancer Delia Silvan, a founding member of
$23 Concession/Friends Compañia Nacional de Danza under Nacho Duato. With such brilliant Bookings open Leigh Warren and Dancers, remounts Shimmer,
expertise and fierce creativity to guide them, WAAPA's talented Friends 10 Sep
Bookings open
which won Warren an Australian Dance Award
dancers will rise to new artistic heights. Public 17 Sep
for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography;
Friends 2 Apr
Public 9 Apr Choreographers Sasha Janes, Lauren Langlois, Claudia Alessi and Kim McCarthy Tara Soh, featured dancer with Chunky Move,
the Australian Dance Theatre and one half of
Performed by 2nd and 3rd Year Dance students
dance film collective The Samara Wives, returns
to her alma mater to choreograph an exciting
new work; and Kim McCarthy remounts scenes
Unleash
from the beloved Romantic ballet, Coppélia.
DOLPHIN THEATRE,
UWA 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley Choreographers
Helder Seabra, Leigh Warren, remounted by
Aug The graduating dancers unleash their creativity by choreographing their
own dance works, performed by their peers. To round out this student-led
season, Composition and Music Technology students compose imaginative
Delia Silvan, Tara Soh and Kim McCarthy
Performed by
2nd and 3rd Year Dance students
M T W T F S S soundscapes for these highly original performances.
27 28 29 30 31*
Choreographers 3rd Year Dance students
7.30pm Performed by WAAPA Dance students
Matinee Music composed by Composition and Music Technology students
Sat 31 Aug, 2.00pm
Tickets Bookings open
*No evening performance
$25 Full Friends 23 Jul
$20 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
34
34 Verge 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath Dance 35
35Postgraduate Research Showcase
Research
Tickets Bookings open
GEOFF GIBBS $28 Full Friends 2 Apr
The Body Politic THEATRE $23 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
May Choreographers
Niv Marinberg
Raewyn Hill
LINK kicks off its 2019 season with a triple bill of new
dance works by outstanding international and local guest
choreographers. Raewyn Hill, Artistic Director of Co3 Australia,
Sep WAAPA has a thriving postgraduate research program covering a
broad range of performing arts disciplines, with a particular strength
in practice-led research. Our strengths include interactive digital music
M T W T F S S Scott Elstermann M T W T F S S systems, performance practice on historic pianos, new directions in
remounts her 2016 piece, Carnivale; Israeli choreographer
22 23 24 25* Performed by 10 jazz, theatre-making, choreography, and much more. This free event is
and former rehearsal director of L-E-V Dance Company, Niv
LINK Dance in part a performance showcase, and in part a series of short research
7.30pm Marinberg explores the intuitive correlations between music and 7.30pm
Company presentations. It offers a rare opportunity for audiences to sample
movement; and Scott Elstermann, who in 2018 became the first
Matinee Australian and youngest-ever artist to receive the prestigious innovative arts projects in their nascent stages, and to view the ideas
FREE EVENT
Sat 25 May, 2.00pm Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography. that will transform the future of arts discourse.
*No evening performance Hosted by WAAPA Higher Degree by Research students
Bookings open
Tickets Friends 23 Jul
In the Dark TBA Public 30 Jul
Sep Choreographed by
Michael Whaites in
collaboration with
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock
Fear is a state of mind that can have physical repercussions.
Dates and location the LINK Dance
Company Devised and directed by Artistic Director Michael Whaites in
to be advised
collaboration with the LINK dancers, In the Dark examines our
Performed by
fears and explores the ghost stories of our past. This site-specific
LINK Dance
Company
performance will be devised by the Dance students in response
to a given environment that is both inspiring and challenging.
The performance location and dates will be revealed in June.
Visit the WAAPA website for further details waapa.ecu.edu.au
MSA Conference 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Reason for Being Crossing Borders LUNA CINEMAS, LEEDERVILLE
Films
Perth Cultural Centre, Roe St, Perth
Choreographer Raewyn Hill
Performed by LINK Dance Company and Co3 Australia Sep A program of short films exploring the theme, Crossing Borders, created
by the 2019 Screen Academy class of producers, writers, directors,
cinematographers, sound designers and editors. The films feature the
Continuing on from an exciting new partnership in 2018, M T W T F S S talents of WAAPA's Acting students as well as Composition, Sound,
LINK performs alongside Co3 Australia, WA's flagship 26 Costume and Design students. The WA Screen Academy is proudly
contemporary dance company, in the world premiere of 6.30pm sponsored by the Nine Network who will broadcast the films in October.
Raewyn Hill's Reason for Being at the prestigious Art Gallery For further information, ecu.edu.au/wa-screen-academy
of Western Australia. Alongside Hill's signature movement
language, architecture firm Hassell and composer
Eden Mulholland collaborate with artists from a range
of disciplines to bring the space to life. Experience this
creative response to the State Art Collection and Gallery
architecture re-interpreted through contemporary dance
and collaborative performance.
Oct
Nov
Tickets
TBA
Bookings open
M T W T F S S Ticketing co3.org.au
30 31 1 2 3
7.30pm
36
36 Co3 Katherine Gurr at AGWA. Photo by Toni Wilkinson 37
37Acting
Romeo and Juliet The Misanthrope
The Cherry Orchard The Taming of the Shrew
When the Rain Stops Falling An Ideal Husband
Machinal The Hope Fault
Love Me Tender Birdland
38 The Crucible 2018. Photo by Jon Green 39
39Tickets Bookings open
Romeo and Juliet The Cherry Orchard
PERTH COLLEGE
Judith Cottier Theatre
$28 Full
$23 Concession/Friends
Friends 5 Feb
Public 12 Feb
STATE THEATRE CENTRE
Studio Underground
A girl and a boy lock eyes at a party and
Mar
M T W T F S S
Written by
Anton Chekhov
Directed by
Chekhov's final masterpiece is a bittersweet comedy about a
once-wealthy family whose idleness and extravagence have
brought them to the brink of bankruptcy – and with it, the sale
fall madly in love. Set against a background Michael Abercromby of their estate and beloved cherry orchard. Writer/director
15 16
of feuding families, Shakespeare's timeless Performed by
Michael Abercromby, co-Artistic Director of Sydney-based
19 20
tale of star-crossed lovers is fuelled by a 2nd Year JackRabbit Theatre, returns to his alma mater to put his own
reckless passion that has devastating and fatal 7.30pm Acting students spin on one of the world's most renowned stage plays.
consequences. Renowned English actor and Matinee
director Michael Jenn returns to WAAPA to Sat 16 Mar, 2.00pm
direct one of the greatest love stories ever told.
Written by William Shakespeare 31 Lawley Crescent
Mount Lawley
Directed by Michael Jenn
Performed by 3rd Year Acting students
When the Rain Tickets Bookings open
Mar Tickets
$39 Full
Stops Falling ROUNDHOUSE
THEATRE
$36 Full
$29 Concession/Friends
Friends 2 Apr
Public 9 Apr
May
$32 Concession/Friends Written by
M T W T F S S Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands
Bookings open Andrew Bovell at the feet of Gabriel York. And it still smells of the sea. It's been
15 16
Friends 5 Feb raining for days and Gabriel knows something is wrong.
18 19* 20 21 Public 12 Feb Directed by
M T W T F S S
Peggy Shannon WAAPA is delighted to welcome Dr. Peggy Shannon from
7.30pm Tel: 6212 9292 3 4
Performed by Toronto's Ryerson University to direct this time-travelling drama
ptt.wa.gov.au 6 7* 8 9
Matinee Booking fees may apply 3rd Year that raises questions about sustainability and climate change,
Sat 16 Mar, 2.00pm 7.30pm Acting students father-son relationships and the past's ability to devour the
*Post-show discussion on Matinee future.
Tue 19 Mar 174-176 William St, Perth Sat 4 May, 2.00pm
*Post-show discussion on
Tue 7 May
Tickets Bookings open
ENRIGHT $28 Full Friends 2 Apr
Machinal STUDIO $23 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
May Written by
Sophie Treadwell
Directed by
Written in 1928 and inspired by the true story of the first woman
to be executed by electric chair in New York, Sophie Treadwell's
expressionist play Machinal is an unforgettable portrait of a
M T W T F S S Jeffrey Jay Fowler young woman suffocating at home and work. Jeffrey Jay Fowler,
3 4 Associate Director at Black Swan State Theatre Company,
Performed by
6 7 8 9 2nd Year directs this unflinching vision of claustrophobia and entrapment
Acting students that drives a young woman to commit a terrible act.
7.30pm
Tickets Bookings open
ENRIGHT $28 Full Friends 2 Apr
Love Me Tender STUDIO $23 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
Jun Written by
Tom Holloway
Directed by
In a dreamscape of an Australian backyard, the story of a father
and daughter is teased out. Inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia
in Aulis, this vision of contemporary Australia draws on modern
M T W T F S S
Katt Osborne Australian experiences from the Black Saturday bushfires to pre-
14 15 teen sexuality and domestic rituals.
Performed by
17 18 19 20
2nd Year Director/producer Katt Osborne, co-founder of The Last
7.30pm Acting students Great Hunt, brings her wealth of experience to this bold and
emotionally powerful play about love and sacrifice.
40 A Streetcar Named Desire 2018. Photo by Jon Green Acting 41Tickets Bookings open
ROUNDHOUSE $36 Full Friends 2 Apr
The Misanthrope
An Ideal
THEATRE $29 Concession/Friends Public 9 Apr
Jun Written by Is it possible to tell the truth and nothing but? Alceste despises
Husband
Moliere hypocrisy in society – yet he loves Célimène, who is the very
Directed by personification of the false morals he scorns. Moliere's comedy
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Humphrey Bower of manners asks how far one should accept the rules of the
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society in which one lives. It shouldn't surprise us that more than
ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE 17 18* 19 20 Performed by
350 years later, hypocrisy and niceties, truth and deception, are
3rd Year
7.30pm Acting students still alive and well.
Successful politician Sir Robert Chiltern has
it all – money, power and the love of his Matinee
adoring wife. But he also has a murky secret Sat 15 Jun, 2.00pm
in his past that, if revealed, will bring down all *Post-show discussion on
Tue 18 Jun
he stands for and the marriage he cherishes.
Oscar Wilde's 1889 comedy of manners
about hypocritical moralities in high-society The Taming of ENRIGHT
Tickets
$32 Full
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
London speaks to a modern generation
about the gap between political and private
the Shrew STUDIO $26 Concession/Friends Public 30 Jul
morality. Wilde questions power, politics and
love in a way that skewers the very notion of
'an ideal'.
Aug
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Written by
William
Shakespeare
Director Peter Zazzali from the University of Kansas tackles
Shakespeare's controversial battle-of-the- sexes comedy about
power and gender. Baptista has two daughters: docile, beautiful
Directed by Bianca who is much sought after by the noblemen of the town,
Written by Oscar Wilde 23 24 Peter Zazzali and ill-tempered Katherine, whose acid tongue keeps suitors at
Directed by Priscilla Jackman 26 27 28 29 bay. In the tradition of the times, Katherine – as the oldest – must
Performed by
Performed by 3rd Year Acting students 2nd Year marry first. Bianca's many suitors can't afford to wait, so in a wild
7.30pm
Acting students scheme to find a husband for Katherine, they convince the wily
Aug
Matinee
Sat 24 Aug, 2.00pm Petruchio to take on the challenge.
M T W T F S S Tickets Tickets Bookings open
$36 Full $32 Full Friends 10 Sep
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$29 Concession/Friends Birdland THE EDITH $26 Concession/Friends Public 17 Sep
7.30pm
Matinee
Bookings open
Friends 23 Jul
Public 30 Jul
Oct
M T W T F S S
Written by
Simon Stephens
Directed by
What's the price of mega-fame and limitless money? Rock star
Paul is on the final week of his sold-out world tour – and on the
verge of cracking up. He's made a Faustian pact with fame,
Sat 24 Aug, 2.00pm Andrew Lewis shifting from capricious arrogance to destructive venom as
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*Post-show discussion on Performed by
his life spirals out of control. From the Olivier Award-winning
Tue 27 Aug 14 15* 16 17
3rd Year writer of the West End hit, The Curious Incident of the Dog in
7.30pm Acting students the Night-Time, comes this funny, sad and compelling satire of
Matinee fame, celebrity and stardom in the 21st century.
Sat 12 Oct, 2.00pm
*Post-show discussion on
Tue 15 Oct
Tickets Bookings open
ENRIGHT $32 Full Friends 10 Sep
The Hope Fault STUDIO $26 Concession/Friends Public 17 Sep
Oct
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Based on the Novel by Iris's family – her ex-husband with his new wife and baby;
Tracy Farr her son, and her best friend's daughter – gather to pack up
Stage adaptation and their holiday house. They are there for one last time, one last
Directed by weekend, and one last party – but in the course of this weekend,
11 12 Andrew Hale their connections will be affirmed, and their frailties and secrets
14 15 16* 17 revealed. Adapted from Tracy Farr's novel and directed by local
Performed by
7.30pm 2nd Year actor/writer/director Andrew Hale, The Hope Fault is a story
Acting students about familial connections and fault lines, and why the debris
Matinee
Sat 12 Oct, 2.00pm of a well-lived life matters. WAAPA in conjunction with the
*Post-show discussion on
Minderoo Foundation and Fremantle Press proudly presents the
Wed 16 Oct premiere of this riveting new Western Australian play.
42 The Seagull 2018. Photo by Jon Green Acting 43You can also read
