What's On at UWA

Nikolai Demidenkos passionate pianism is in demand worldwide. Russian born and trained, Demidenko has steadily built an international career of the highest calibre, playing concertos with many of Europes greatest orchestras and conductors, and playing a landmark series of recitals in Londons (...)

Shakespeare and Song: Depictions of Shakespearean Emotions in Arias and Song Artistry!

This exciting program draws on verse by Shakespeare presented both in spoken and sung recitation to explore early modern as well as contemporary understandings of human emotion: passion, hate, joy (...)

Emotional communication in song and speech

Professor Bill Thompson is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the area of music psychology. Together with other researchers he has demonstrated that emotional communication is a multimodal process that operates similarly in both music and (...)

Christopher Tonkin, Associate Lecturer, School of Music, UWA and a leading composer discusses some of his recent works.

Eva-Marie Middleton, PhD candidate, School of Music, UWA presents an exciting and innovative research project involving multi-methods including the evaluation of recordings made in the last 80 years.

The UWA Music Students' Society presents it's 3rd concert of the Semester. This concert will showcase works composed by students and performed by UWA Music Students.

The second concert in the series in which UWA students present the Opus 20 string quartets of Haydn

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

In this free lunchtime concert, Brett Baker performs (...)

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

Observe Brett Baker working with some of WA’s most (...)

Join Brett Baker, Principal Trombone of the Black Dyke Brass Band, and Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA in this feast of music for Trombone and Brass.

Featuring the famous Grondahl Trombone Concerto, and a special version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue arranged (...)

Every year, a magical experience is created when the outstanding ability, cohesive intensity and youthful passion of the UWA School of Music students and staff combine and celebrate the power of music.

Thanks to the generosity of the Vose family, the annual Vose Memorial Prize for Music (...)

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.