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Displaying from Thursday, August 04, 2011
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August 2011
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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 |
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
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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 (...)
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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Saturday 06 |
9:30 - SEMINAR - Stay on Your Feet Seminar & UWA Clinic Open Day
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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.
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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 (...)
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Sunday 07 |
15:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Concert: Artistry! 4 - Old Cello/New Cello Festival Concert
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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 (...)
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Monday 08 |
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.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to stack oranges in three dimensions, 24 dimensions, and beyond
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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
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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
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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
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Wednesday 10 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Theory of removing energy from tidal streams – with a focus on the UK
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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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.
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
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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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Friday 12 |
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
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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