What's On at UWA

With a thriving community of composers and celebrated staff mentoring their progress, aural portraits by some of the finest young composers in Western Australia are revealed amongst two inimitable treasures of the orchestral repertoire.

Ravel Bolero Emerging Composers Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

2 Illustrated Lectures: Baths and Bathing in the Roman World by Dr. Sandra Ottley; 2012 field trip to Jarash, Jordan by Don Boyer. 1:30pm, Saturday 25 August, Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia. Programme: 1:30pm - Baths and Bathing in the Roman World; 2:30pm - tea break ($7 for RAG Members $10 for non-members); 3:00pm - Annual General Meeting; 3:30pm - 2012 field trip to Jarash, Jordan. Please let us know of your interest by emailing Norah Cooper [email protected]. For more information on the RAG visit http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/roman-archaeology

Percussion Purity! Masterworks from the percussion and piano repertoire come together in this extraordinary performance featuring some of West Australia's finest musicians; Paul Tanner, Louise Devenish, Graeme Gilling and Emily Green-Armytage. Works include Luciano Berio's Linea, and George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmoas lll)

Responses: Tomkins

Lord’s Prayer: Stone

Canticles: Tallis Short Service

Anthem: Eslava Jesu dulcis memoria

The Winthrop Singers welcome spring from the top of Winthrop Tower at sunrise.

Includes performance with didjeridu.

Free event.

Tom Burlinson is returning to Western Australia with his latest show Now We’re Swingin’! This time he’s bringing his 8-piece band to present a montage of swing classics by Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra.

Songs include I’ve Got the World on a String, The Way You Look Tonight, I’ve Gotta Be Me, Summer Wind, For Once in my Life, the ever popular I’ve Got You Under My Skin and many, many more.

He will also pay due reverence to the current masters of swing - Harry Connick Jnr and Michael Bublé.

Special offer for UWA Staff! A reserve tickets at B reserve prices - simply quote the code word "Tom" when booking.

Book now through BOCS Ticketing - 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au

Percussion Purity! presents the first ever Marimba Orchestra assembled in Perth. WA’s most outstanding percussionists will perform a program of premieres by Nigel Westlake, Christopher Deane and Emmanuel Sejourne, followed by a massed Marimba Orchestra of 40 players. An exciting and unique event not to be missed!

Tickets available from BOCS: http://www.bocsticketing.com.au / 08 9484 1133

“There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history, and Steve Reich is one of them.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian.

Loved by audiences the world over, Reich’s mesmeric compositions embrace aspects of Western Classical music, traditional African rhythms and American jazz to create a unique minimalist sound world. Fresh from time working with Reich in the US, Louise Devenish returns to Perth to direct a collection of his works for keyboard percussion instruments.

Tickets available from BOCS: www.bocsticketing.com.au / 08 9484 1133

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER, 1 PM

This exhibition currently on show would not have been possible without the knowledge, expertise, and insight of the community that Jimmy Pike came from. Join the Curatorial Director of the Berndt Museum, Dr John Stanton and Professor Sandy Toussaint, Exhibition Coordinator, as they discuss, the importance of working together with Pike’s grandson, Terry Murray, to deliver an exhibition that is true to Jimmy Pike and his artistic heritage, as well as his artistic patrimony. The Berndt Museum has a long and well-recognised track record for its ongoing engagement with Aboriginal ‘communities of origin’: the Pike exhibition is its most recent affirmation.

A free lunchtime concert showcasing percussion works for small ensemble. Works of this size are rarely performed in Western Australia. Join artists in an exploration of this facet of the genre.

Responses: Tomkins

Canticles: Weelkes Short Service

Anthem: Stanford Beati quorum via

Savitri Goswami was only a child when she wrote her first play. It was so good that she was advised to take it to the local radio station, in her city Gorahkpur, Inspired by her first broadcast, the young Savitri took to her pen with great vigour, churning out many dramas, to the delight of her family and friends.

Organisms living in cold environments must possess enzymes which function at lower temperatures in order to survive. Humans have found uses for these enzymes in the food and processing industries, domestic products and for biotechnological applications. This, along with their potential for bioremediation and renewable energy production has driven efforts to discover novel cold adapted enzymes. At the University of Tromsø 300 km north of the Arctic circle we have access to remote cold environments, and our samples comprise a variety of marine biota and sediments collected from the polar regions. Here I will present a strategy for the discovery of new enzymes from metagenomic DNA- that is the DNA complement of a given environment rather than an individual organism. I will discuss the methods we are using to produce enzymes from this DNA giving an example of a protein that I am currently characterising. This example illustrates the complexity of investigating proteins from unknown sources, and how research often gives us answers we do not expect.

Adele Kim Williamson is a postdoctoral fellow in the MARZymes project, where her focus is the recombinant expression and structural and functional characterisation of novel enzymes from our metagenomic libraries. Currently she is working with a number of enzymes which may have functions in cell wall degradation, as well as putative DNA ligase and nitrilase proteins. Before coming to Norway, she completed a doctorate at the Research School of Biological Sciences in the Australian National University in 2007, and then worked as a post doctoral researcher at the Umeå Plant Sciences Centre in Sweden until early 2010. Her previous work involved structural and functional characterisation of subunits from the Photosystem II complex, with a particular interest in comparisons between thermophilic and mesophilic homologues. Adele is originally from New Zealand and took her BSc. in biochemistry at the University of Canterbury.

In a festival extravaganza, the 90th birthday and 10th anniversary of Xenakis’ death is celebrated in one magnificent event. This unique composer wrote music of extraordinary power and originality, and the imposing stone and space of Winthrop Hall provides the perfect architectural counterpart to this monumental music. Inspired and directed by celebrated Artist Paul Tanner, this extraordinary event promises to amaze and enthuse all ages. Joined by a host of professional percussionists on stage and around the hall, works to be performed include Xenakis’ Pleiades (movement 1) Menages, and Pleiades (movement 2) Metaux.

Tickets available from BOCS: www.bocsticketing.com.au / 08 9484 1133

Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Responses: Tomkins

Canticles: Walmisley in d minor

Anthem: Bruckner Locus iste

Sung Eucharist featuring Antoine Brumel's Et ecce terrae motus, the "Earthquake" Mass.

This is a preview of the full performance of the Mass that will take place on September 23rd at St Patrick's Basilica, Fremantle.

Dr Jon Prince, School of Psychology, Murdoch University, investigates how listeners combine pitch and time when listening to music. In his talk he will share findings from empirical research he has conducted on this topic.

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