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Displaying from Thursday, August 04, 2011
 August 2011
Thursday 04
11:00 - WORKSHOP - School of Music: Old Cello / New Cello - Composition Masterclass Website | More Information
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 (...)

13:10 - CONCERT - Free Lunchtime Concert: Old Cello / New Cello Website | More Information
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 (...)
Friday 05
15:00 - SEMINAR - 'Where the rubber meets the road�: The centrality of what people decide to do during the period between awareness of threat and impact of the hazard More Information
Most of the limited research reported in Australia about community bushfire safety has focused on peoples’ intentions to prepare for bushfires. Relatively little research has focused on what people decide and do when under threat of bushfire attack. I will present findings from research following (...)

17:30 - WORKSHOP - School of Music: Old Cello / New Cello - Piano Masterclass Website | More Information
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 (...)
Saturday 06
9:30 - SEMINAR - Stay on Your Feet Seminar & UWA Clinic Open Day More Information
Presentation from Stay on Your Feet WA on the 9 steps that you can take to reduce your falls risk. 1 in 4 people over 60 will fall each year which can lead to injury and significant physical limitation. Being active and independent is a key to being able to enjoy our lives at any age. Come along (...)

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Spanish Fire : A performance of one of the great Spanish compositions in a stunning arrangement for castanets and piano. Website | More Information
Danzas Espanolas is one of Enrique Granados’ supreme achievements for keyboard.

Now there’s a rare opportunity to listen to, and watch, as two masters of their art – Deanna Blacher (castanets) & Cameron Roberts (piano) – take you into the uniquely thrilling and passionate (...)
Sunday 07
15:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Concert: Artistry! 4 - Old Cello/New Cello Festival Concert Website | More Information
In association with Tura New Music this concert can only be described as an extravaganza of music.

Bringing together international and national cellists, music for one to twelve cellos will saturate the senses in their exquisite sound.

Featuring guest artists Niall Brown (...)
Monday 08
16:00 - WORKSHOP - School of Music: Old Cello / New Cello - Cello Masterclass Website | More Information
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 (...)
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 Website | More Information
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.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to stack oranges in three dimensions, 24 dimensions, and beyond Website | More Information
A free public lecture by by Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University and 2011 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

How can we pack balls as tightly as possible?

In other words: to squeeze as many balls as possible into a limited space, what� (...)

19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Friends of the Library talk: Family life in the goldfields 1895-onwards More Information
Histories of the goldfields often focus on company histories or mining work ignoring or marginalising the lived experiences of women, children and domestic concerns. This talk will focus on the way in which families coped with the isolation, unfamiliar culture and vast distances forging through (...)

19:45 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Family life in the goldfields 1895-onwards More Information
This talk will focus on the way in which families coped with the isolation, unfamiliar culture and vast distances forging through hardship rich and sustained closed knit communities. Experiences of communities during the war will also be discussed
Wednesday 10
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Theory of removing energy from tidal streams – with a focus on the UK More Information
Tidal stream energy, which involves placing tidal turbines in locations with large tidal currents, is receiving significant attention as a potential renewable energy source in the United Kingdom. Recent estimates suggest that tidal stream energy could supply between 5-10% of the UK’s current (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Women in Science Website | More Information
Speaker: Eleanor Dodson, Professor Emeritus, York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK and 2011 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

Highly cited scientist, Professor Eleanor Dodson, will discuss the role of women and science (...)
Thursday 11
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert Website | More Information
Dominic Perissinotto (organ) Sarah-Janet Brittenden (mezzo soprano) Clare Tunney (cello)

An assortment of old favourites for organ, voice and cello.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Randomness in number theory More Information
Public lecture by the 2011 Mahler Lecturer

Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)

will speak on

Randomness in number theory

Abstract: By way of concrete examples we discuss the dichotomy that in number theory the basic phenomena are either very structured (...)

20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Composition Concert More Information
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)
Friday 12
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Great Southern, Great Science Symposium Website | More Information
The Western Australia Chief Scientist, Professor Lyn Beazley, and the University of Western Australia's Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management are hosting a symposium in Albany to showcase the excellent science taking place in the Great Southern region.

'Great Southern (...)

15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar with Art Oriente Objet : Informal open seminar with visiting French artists Benoit Mangin and Marion Laval-Jeantet Website | More Information
The duo Art Object Oriented (Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoit Mangin) aim to use an interdisciplinary approach to expand the amazing ability of art to communicate non-verbally. Through anthropological, environmental or biotechnological experiments, they try to understand the limits of their own (...)
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. Website | More Information
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 (...)


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