What's On at UWA

School of Music Department of Vocal Studies presents: 'Brush Up your Shakespeare'

Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October, 7.30pm, Callaway Music Auditorium

An informative and entertaining journey, exploring Shakespeare's songs a set by composers from Thomas Morley to Leonard (...)

Since her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has established an international reputation as a soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. She has performed concertos with leading orchestras throughout Europe, America and Australia.

Her many recordings of Percy (...)

UWA Wind and Brass students present chamber works in this free lunchtime concert.

Presented by the UWA Music Students' Society, the final concert in this series will showcase solo performances of UWA Music students performing a wide range of repertoire on a rage of instruments and voice.

Professor Nicholas Cook is a world leading music scholar with an eclectic range of interests from aesthetics and analysis to psychology and pop. In this lecture, he examines the use of music to create affective values, constructions of identity and community.

His paper argues for a (...)

Prof Jane Edwards is a world leading music therapist and will speak on parent and infant music making.

Works for chamber clarinet.

Adam is showcasing some of his favourite contemporary repertoire along with some new works, Adam presents a lunchtime concert like no other.

Join Juniper Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul Wright as they premiere a new work by Australian composer Mary Finsterer. The beloved Trout Quintet by Schubert and the rarely heard Verkarte Nacht will also be performed in this concert which promises to delight.

The teddies of Perth unite for a festive event in the picturesque setting of the UWA Sunken Gardens. Big Teddies and passionate instrumentalists will laugh, sing, dance and explore the wonder of music.

Bring your bears, your picnic and be prepared for a fun-filled event.

Practitioner Su Hart, is a member of the Afro/Celt music group, Baka Beyond. Her own music is inspired by the music of the pygmy Baka people from the rain forests of Cameroon. In her talk she will discuss her own initiation into the Baka womens' magical singing called "Yelli" (forest (...)

Duo Mixt performs an eclectic program of works that includes cross-genre pieces as well as more traditional classical pieces.

Australian-born pianist Cameron Roberts is recognised as an artist of great distinction and originality. He performs in Australia, England, and Spain as soloist and chamber musician whilst gaining growing success as a composer and arranger. Roberts opens the Keyed Up! season with a performance of (...)

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Music student at UWA?

"A Day in the Life of a Music Student" is a great opportunity for you to discover what a typical day at university is like.

The School of Music is offering WA secondary school students the (...)

Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students

Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.

Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.