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Displaying from Sunday, July 10, 2011
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July 2011
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Sunday 10 |
Australians purchased 14 million digital cameras in the last three years. With auto-focus, auto-exposure and auto white balance, photographers should all be making superb images, but are they? Dale not only simplifies the buttons and knobs on your camera but leads you to discover the joy of (...)
Singing opera is often touted as a great mystery. How does a single voice be heard over the power of an orchestra without amplification? If you've ever wondered why and would love to be an operatic singer for day, come along and learn some technique in this group singing experience. The joy and (...)
Check out the Great Southern's amazing acoustic act, The Pepperjacks! A harmony-laden four piece celebration of some of the classic tunes from the acoustic blues, bluegrass and ragtime traditions, featuring Rod Vervest (guitar), Bob Lipinski (harmonica), Lara Norman (violin) and Craig Sinclair (slid (...)
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Monday 11 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - AAEH XXII Conference Perth : Conference on the contradictory nature of Europe in modern times
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The history of Modern Europe presents a multitude of disturbing contradictions. The Old Continent has engendered the most uplifting visions of human potential and the darkest dystopias in human experience. It has laboured to produce its colossal social, cultural and artistic heritage and has (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
A delicious luncheon at the University Club of Western Australia will be the setting for a literary discussion with author Ian Reid, who will give an insight into his bitter-beautiful historical novel The End of Longing - a thrilling and lyrical novel about a confidence trickster, a restless woman (...)
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Friday 22 |
14:00 - EVENT - Three Minute Thesis Finals : A competition to find the most engaging 3 minute presentation on a research topic
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The 10 most engaging 3 Minute Thesis presenters selected at the UWA semi-finals on 21st July, will compete for prizes and the opportunity to represent UWA at the Australia-New Zealand 3MT competition in September. Please come along to support the presenters and vote for your "People's Choice&qu (...)
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August 2011
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Tuesday 02 |
17:00 - EVENT - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Exploring the Politics of Collaboration: Bridging the Scholarly Divide in the Kyrgyz Manas Epic
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Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signaling its global importance. It sits alongside Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or the (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
Music for Cello and Piano with Guest Artists Niall Brown, cello and Isabelle Trub, piano
Following more than ten years of concerts, it has become clear that cellist Niall Brown and pianist Isabelle Trub have created something quite special in chamber music that the press have unanimously (...)
3 - 8 August 2011
A festival of old and new music for 1-12 cellos spanning 3 centuries
Old meets new in an exciting festival of music composed for the cello, ranging from baroque works written in the early 18th century through to world premier compositions by UWA resident (...)
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Thursday 04 |
Specialist performer Geoff Gartner will workshop UWA student composer pieces, as well as presenting select works from the repertoire, and give composers advice about writing for cello.
As a musicologist Gartner specializes in the American experimental scene with a particular emphasis on (...)
Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize in Composition and Pauline Steel Prize for Solo Cello
Students competing for the Pauline Steel Prize for cello will play newly composed works for solo cello by UWA student composers especially for the Old Cello/New Cello Festival in this combined lunchtime (...)
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Friday 05 |
Accompaniment with Guest Artist Isabelle Trub, piano
Trub has also been closely associated as an accompanist with the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland, Freiburg Hochschule and Villa Musica in Germany, Hindemith Foundation in Switzerland and more recently Youth Music (...)
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Monday 08 |
13:00 - EVENT - Demystify Consulting - Your questions answered by The Boston Consulting Group : The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy.
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Demystify Consulting
Your questions answered byThe Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy.
Join us in an open discussion to find out what it really means to be a Strategy Consultant.
Selected UWA cello students will perform and work with cellist Niall Brown in this public masterclass.
Niall Browns talent was recognised early on by Yehudi Menuhin. Brown has performed as soloist with the Camerata Bern, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the Link to Keyboard Improvisation
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In this Power of Music Seminar, Stewart Smith, Coordinator Classical Music, WAAPA, ECU discusses exciting historical musicology research entitled Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the
Link to Keyboard Improvisation.
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Wednesday 10 |
12:00 - WORKSHOP - Cover Letter Preparation Workshop : All too often the importance of the cover letter is overlooked when preparing written job applications.
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The cover letter is usually the first thing read by an employer and it will influence whether they read on or not! Learn how to:
Structure your letters
Create interest in your application
Prepare letters for advertised and non-advertised positions
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Thursday 11 |
Dominic Perissinotto (organ)
Sarah-Janet Brittenden (mezzo soprano)
Clare Tunney (cello)
An assortment of old favourites for organ, voice and cello.
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Composition Concert
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The UWA Music Students' Society presents a concert of works composed and performed by UWA music students.
FREE for MSS members / $10 for non-members (available at the door)
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Sunday 14 |
0:00 - EXHIBITION - Recent Past: Australian painting of the 70s and 80s : Recent Past is a vibrant selection from the University's Art Collection.
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Recent Past: Australian painting of the 70s and 80s, is an engaging exhibition of art from a period of profound change in Australian painting and culture. The exhibition traces a modern history of painting through the work of 36 artists, over half of whom worked in Western Australia. Abstraction (...)
UWA opens up the whole campus to the public.
Come and find out about the courses on offer, valuable research, community programs, and facilities...all mixed with a day full of lots of fun activities for everyone!
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