What's On at UWA

Clint Bracknell - Songs from the South: The Wirlomin Project and Southern Noongar Song

Aboriginal people, language and song inform a rich sense of place in Australia. Wirlomin Noongar people from the southwest are in the process of claiming, consolidating, enhancing and sharing their endangered cultural heritage. In this context, I will examine the value of community-driven Aboriginal language revitalisation and the potential function of local Aboriginal song idioms in broader cultural sustainability activities.

Makoto Takao - Glocal Emotion: Performative Practices of Jesuit Conversion in Early Modern Japan

This thesis will explore Jesuit conversion policy in Japan during the Christian Century (1540-1650). It will specifically analyse the means by which performative practices were employed as a way of fostering faith through the use of music, drama, and visual arts. These modes of communication embody inherent emotive potency, and the measure of their success can be best identified as degrees of affectivity amongst the converted.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

PLEASE BE ADVISED: - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Louise Devenish (DMA candidate)

Service for the Council of Christians and Jews. Featuring Hebrew choral works: - Arr. Singer's Hine Matov - Salmone Rossi's Halelluia (Psalm 47) - Lewandowski's' Enosh - Bernstein's Adonai roi (Chichester Psalms)

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Eva-Marie Middleton: Choral Performances of the Past

The archive of recorded music available for academic study now extends back for over a century. One of the avenues of study provided by this resource is a stark portrayal of differences in performance style over that period. This seminar will look specifically at changes in the performance practice of early choral music. Six recordings of Tudor music made in the 1920s will be analysed for their stylistic features and contrasted with the performance approaches of today's choirs.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

Choral Evensong with the Winthrop Singers. Feat. Gabrieli's Magnificat, Holst's Nunc Dimitus and Monteverdi's Beatus Vir.

In celebration of the University’s centenary, UWA School of Music joins with UWA Choral society for an extravagant evening of sound. As part of the celebration, an orchestra of over 170 will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on it’s 100th anniversary before being joined on stage by the combined forces of the UWA Symphonic Chorus, UWA Choral Society and soloists for the exuberant Rachmaninoff composition, The Bells. This is a concert of epic proportions. For tickets, please visit: https://www.music.uwa.edu.au/concerts/artistry

Victoria Rogers: John Blacking, Composer

John Blacking (1928–90) made his mark as an ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist and his enduring reputation stems from his work in these areas. Yet his interests were more far reaching and included cognition and language, dance and movement, the biology of music making, music psychology, and – perhaps surprisingly – composition. The very existence of Blacking’s compositions raises a number of enticing questions. What was the nature of his musical language? What might a study of his compositions tell us about his ethnomusicology? What might his ethnomusicology tell us about his compositions? These questions give rise to the central focus of this article: the intersection of Blacking’s composition and ethnomusicology. The article concludes that Blacking’s conceptualisation of music as an expression of social processes and cultural values extended beyond non-Western musics, infusing the compositions which he himself created within the musical paradigm of his own culture.

Two world-renowned maestros of Indian classical music – Pundit Kumar Bose (tabla) and Pundit Debojyoti Bose (sarod) – will present a workshop at the UWA School of Music.

This is an amazing opportunity to see some fantastic music from two of India’s best musicians.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

Choral Evensong with the Winthrop Singers. Feat. Mereno's Te Deum; choir member Cardell-Oliver's Nunc Dimittis; Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia.

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Join DMA candidate Karen-Elizabeth Sekararum on Monday 24 June 2013 - 5pm in the Tunley Lecture Theatre, School of Music, UWA

An Exploration of English Language Sung Poetry as presented in the Recital Srimaya's FAll from the Demon's Circle

DMA Lecture-Demonstration

As part of the WinterARTS Festival and in celebration of the magnificent exhibition ORIENTing on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, join Western Australian guitarist Christine Yeong for an intimate performance and evening viewing of works. Yeong, brings her passionate, energetic, and unique style of classical guitar playing to the stage with an exciting program featuring Spanish, Latin American, English, and Australian compositions, as well as her own arrangements.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm