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2020
PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY
OF PERFORMING ARTS
40 YEARS
OF WAAPA
Edith Cowan University 1
A warm
welcome
I am very much looking forward to
WAAPA’s 2020 Performance Program,
the first concerts and shows overseen by
WAAPA’s new Executive Dean, Professor
David Shirley.
David has come on board with a
passionate determination to celebrate
the work of WAAPA’s students and
graduates at every possible opportunity.
This year, for the first time ever, WAAPA
is taking its highly anticipated mid-year
musical to His Majesty’s Theatre. Also,
the superb American jazz pianist Benny
Green will be a visiting artist – just two
highlights in a program of unmissable
performances.
It is exciting to imagine that the young
musicians, singers, dancers, actors,
theatre makers and music theatre
performers you see on stage, plus all the
brilliant behind-the-scenes artists, will
40 YEARS
OF WAAPA
Edith Cowan University
go on from WAAPA to enrich the arts in
Australia and around the world.
With this in mind, I warmly invite you
to join me in celebrating the incredible
OPEN DAY
talents of our WAAPA students at this SUNDAY 9 AUGUST, 10.00AM – 3.00PM
year’s astonishing array of concerts and
performances. From music to dance You're invited to come behind the
to drama, there really is something for scenes at WAAPA. ECU's Open Day at
everyone. the Mount Lawley campus gives you the
perfect opportunity to see our talented
students in action in rehearsals, classes and
short concerts. Speak with staff members
Professor Steve Chapman CBE about course options and learn about
Vice-Chancellor auditions. Marvel at the design work,
costumes and props on display. Check out
the superbly equipped lighting and sound
studios, the music technology labs and the
scenery construction workshops. Explore
the campus, take a backstage tour and
attend information sessions. A detailed
program of events will be posted on the
WAAPA website waapa.ecu.edu.au
2 2020 3
2020
Edith Cowan
University
acknowledges
Program Index
and respects Mar May JUn Sep Oct Nov
its continuing 14 4-8 11-17 2 1-3 3-5
WAAPA in the Park 8 Sound Spectrum A Lie of the Mind 40 Beat That! 21 Wham...Bam... The Augmented 51
association with the 27
2020.1 12
12-17 3-4
Kaboom! 24
12-19
7 8
Nyoongar people, Defying Gravity
Under the Stars 9 Astronomical 12
Rise
13-18
32 Be Glad & Sing
2-5
21
Royal Over-Seas
The Low Road
12-19
42
League Showcase24
the traditional 7&9
Benny Green
Mamma Mia! 54 Arrival 35 10
Aboriginal
Performance 44
custodians of the APR Jazz Messenger 13 3
Muses of Mingus 21
Instruments of Time
and Truth 24 13-19
land upon which its
1-3
Well 35
8-9
The Warana Prize 14 JUL 9-19
TILT 49
12-16
Sound Spectrum
Spring Awakening 55
13-19
10 30
campuses stand. 2
Rejoice! 10 The German New Directions in 10-16
2020.2
13
25 Icon 33
Romantics: Peruvian Music 18 The Elephant Man 41
2-7 A Lieder Recital 12 The English
11-17 Orpheus 25
The Wild Cherry 14
Project 48 Orpheus in the 15
2-8
Hamlet 40
Starstruck
14-16
15
AUG Underworld
11-17
22
Drawing Sound 27
Drums are the 2 16-17
Parade 55
3-8 New Violins 15 Massed Sax: Beethoven
A Chorus Line 55 Homecoming 18 15-16 Celebration 26
16
5 Songbook Sessions23 17-25
4 Aurora
Raiders of the Percussion Duo 15 Sounds of Brazil 19 16-19 The Place of
Lost Art 9 Many Trees 50
21 6 The Comedy
of Errors 42 22
4 World Tour: The 'Phone Co.
Torn Edge 9 Guitar 15 With Strings 17 The World of
Attached 18 Beethoven 26
21 Postgraduate
8-9 8 Research Showcase36 24
Carnival of the WAAPA Jazz Young
Animals 11 Artists Ensemble 16 Three's Company 19 18 Fantasie Auf
Nachtmusik 27
22-23 9 Basie to Beyoncé! 24
21 28
World of Schubert 11 The Four Seasons: Open Day 2 24
Vivaldi & Piazzola 16 Classical Music
13 Reframe 37 Accolades 27
22 23
Morning Melodies: Electric Jazz 20 29
Cool Classics 12 Viennese Delights 16
21 Spooktacular! 27
23 23 Guitar Artistry:
Postgraduate Brassed Off 16 Jane Curry 20
Research Showcase36 28 21
Wine-Dark Sea 17 Radio Active
Albany 20
29
Magical Vienna 17 26-29
Generator 2020 48
27
A Soldier's Tale 21
4 5
Founding
Pianos
2020 marks a year of celebration for the
Founding Pianos, Edith Cowan University’s
internationally recognized collection of 18th,
19th and 20th century keyboard instruments.
This year, one of the Founding Pianos’ most
prized instruments comes home after extensive
restoration in the United Kingdom.
The First Fleet piano, which arrived in Australia
on board the flagship vessel HMS Sirius in 1788,
returns to WAAPA to be played once again.
This is a major milestone in Edith Cowan
University’s ongoing program to restore,
conserve, maintain and acquire keyboard
instruments of cultural significance, importance
and rarity.
These pianos have lived rich lives and with your
contribution, we can ensure the sounds of the
past are preserved, maintained and shared with
CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSITION & MUSIC future generations.
Defying Gravity Under the Stars TECHNOLOGY
We invite you to join us on this extraordinary
Rejoice! Sound Spectrum 2020.1 journey:
Torn Edge Astronomical • Collect and complete a donation form from
Carnival of the Animals Sound Spectrum 2020.2 the WAAPA Box Office
World of Schubert Drawing Sound • Sign up to receive the Founding Pianos
The Warana Prize newsletter at development@ecu.edu.au
The German Romantics: A Lieder Recital For further information or to view the
Drums are the New Violins CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
collection telephone (08) 6304 2761 or email
Aurora Percussion Duo Morning Melodies: Cool Classics
development@ecu.edu.au
World Tour: Guitar Starstruck
The Four Seasons: Vivaldi And Piazzola Radio Active Albany FOUNDING PIANOS SERIES
Viennese Delights Songbook Sessions Raiders of the Lost Art – page 9
Wine-Dark Sea Viennese Delights – page 16
Magical Vienna JAZZ Three's Company – page 19
Massed Sax: Homecoming Benny Green - Jazz Messenger Instruments of Time and Truth – page 24
The ‘Phone Co. with Strings Attached WAAPA Jazz Young Artists Ensemble
Guitar Artistry: Jane Curry Brassed Off
A Soldier's Tale New Directions in Peruvian Music
Beat That! Sounds of Brazil
Be Glad And Sing Electric Jazz
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Orpheus in the Underworld Muses of Mingus
Wham...Bam...Kaboom! Basie to Beyoncé!
Royal Over-Seas League Showcase
The English Orpheus SpECIAL EVENT
Beethoven Celebration
WAAPA in the Park
The World of Beethoven
Fantasie Auf Nachtmusik
Classical Music Accolades
Music
Spooktacular!
6 Founding Pianos. Photo by James Kilian 7
Defying Gravity FREMANTLE ARTS Tickets Bookings now open
WAAPA in Under the Stars
CENTRE
1 Finnerty St, Fremantle
$24 Full
$15 Concession/Friends
Tickets fac.org.au
or 9432 9555
the Park Mar
Music Director
Tim White
Percussion virtuoso Joshua Webster powers up Defying Gravity,
creating musical magic amidst the trees and gardens of the
Fremantle Arts Centre. The rapturous sounds of ancient and
Performed by
M T W T F S S
RON STONE PARK, Bradford Street, Mount Lawley (opposite WAAPA) Defying Gravity modern percussion fill the air with energy and rhythm, in a feast
27 percussion ensemble of music from Latin America, The Dark Knight, Pavan Kumar
Mar
with Joshua Webster
An annual tradition since 2007, WAAPA in the Park is a family- 7.00pm Hari, Stewart Copeland of The Police, and beyond. Enjoy an
(percussion)
friendly evening of fabulous music performed in Ron Stone Park. *Gates open at
unforgettable night of beautiful music under the stars!
The City of Stirling, Edith Cowan University and WAAPA proudly 6.00pm
M T W T F S S present Australia's premier performing arts academy in concert.
14 Be wowed by the outstanding Latin Ensemble and WAAPA's most
accomplished Jazz and Contemporary musicians as they rock,
7.00pm
bop and strut their way through an awesome collection of old
and new funk, soul, pop and jazz classics. Bring your picnic rug
FREE EVENT
and hamper, and enjoy an evening of exciting musical talent and
showmanship.
Music Directors Mike Eastman, Victoria Newton, Carrie Pereira and Chris Tarr Tickets
$32 Full
Performed by Jazz and Contemporary Music students RAIDERS OF THE RICHARD GILL $27 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 18 Feb
LOST ART AUDITORIUM $25 Friends Public 25 Feb
Apr
Performed by Join Geoffrey Lancaster and Paul Wright for this mid-afternoon
Geoffrey Lancaster concert as they perform three of Mozart’s sonatas for fortepiano
(fortepiano) and violin. Works of elegiac beauty and unparalleled depth and
Paul Wright (violin)
M T W T F S S mastery, the Sonatas in E-minor (KV 304), E-flat (KV 481), B-flat
4 (KV 454) afford a glimpse into Mozart’s soul.
3.00pm
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Tickets
$30 Full Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 18 Feb
TORN EDGE AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 25 Feb
Apr
Music Directors Whether you listen to classical orchestras, jazz, pop, rock or
Matt Styles Eastern-European folk music, this show will spin, twist and fuse
Jazmin Ealden the music you love to create an extraordinary palette of musical
Sean Hayes
M T W T F S S worlds. Co-directed by WAAPA postgraduate students Sean
4 Performed by Hayes and Jazmin Ealden, this show invites you to challenge
Matt Styles with your senses, broaden your musical horizons, and discover music
7.30pm Classical, Jazz you'll want to hear again and again!
and Contemporary
Music students,
featuring the Sax
Studio
8 WAAPA in the Park 2019. Photo by Stephen Heath 9
Tickets
$30 Full
Carnival of the Bookings open
Rejoice! Animals
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
$25 Concession
$23 Friends
Friends 18 Feb
Public 25 Feb
Apr
Music Director Chamber music at its best! WAAPA’s elite Indian Ocean
ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL Victoria Square, Perth Tim White Ensemble performs one of the world’s most-loved works,
Performed by bringing to life Camille Saint-Saëns’ lively and charming Carnival
Apr The WAAPA Chorale and soloists, brass, strings and
organ entwine in St Mary’s Cathedral as we continue
our tradition of presenting the greatest choral music
M T W T F S S
8 9
Indian Ocean
Ensemble
of the Animals accompanied by Nick Enright’s witty home-grown
poetry. String, wind, brass and percussion students join in to
entertain you with their own favourite chamber music works
M T W T F S S performed by the finest young performers. Featuring 7.30pm
– including a vibrant new creation from WAAPA’s Seven Seas
2 Allegri’s haunting Miserere, Schubert’s beloved Mass world music ensemble.
in G with legendary organist Stewart Smith, and
7.30pm culminating in Mascagni’s Easter Hymn from Cavalleria
Tickets
Rusticana with Australia’s opera sensation and WAAPA $30 Full
Tickets
$34 Full Classical Voice lecturer Nicole Youl, this concert will world of RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 18 Feb
$29 Concession move and delight you. schubert AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 25 Feb
$27 Friends
Apr
Music Directors West Australian Symphony Orchestra CEO Mark Coughlan
Bookings open Music Director Mark Coughlan and selected WASO instrumentalists join WAAPA lecturers
Friends 18 Feb Kristin Bowtell Anna Sleptsova Anna Sleptsova and Emily Green-Armytage, acclaimed Opera
Public 25 Feb Performed by M T W T F S S Performed by Australia soprano Emma Matthews, and Philip Everall in a
WAAPA Chorale, Classical Voice students, String Camerata,
21 Anna Sleptsova celebration of the music of Franz Schubert. The program
WAAPA Brass Ensemble, Stewart Smith (organ) with special (piano), Emily Green- features a selection of Schubert’s most profound music,
guest Nicole Youl (mezzo soprano) 7.30pm Armytage (piano), including the F minor Fantasy for piano duet and the very best
Emma Matthews
of the piano chamber music.
(soprano) and Philip
Everall (clarinet)
with Mark Coughlan
(piano) and WASO
instrumentalists
10 Mozart's Requiem 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath 11
MORNING Tickets
MELODIES: $30* Full Bookings now open
$20* Child (Ages 4-15) Tel: 6212 9292
BENNY GREEN
HIS MAJESTY'S
Cool Classics THEATRE $24* Groups (8+) or ptt.wa.gov.au
Apr
Music Director
Mike Eastman
Join this spectacular seven-piece band as they take you back
in time with vibrant pop hits from the 60s and 70s. Performing
jazz Messenger
Performed by songs from a diverse range of genres, such as Joni Mitchell's GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
M T W T F S S Contemporary Big Yellow Taxi, The Supremes' You Can't Hurry Love, Simon
22 Music students and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Aretha Benny Green has been hailed as the most exciting, hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever
Franklin's Natural Woman as well as hits from Carole King, emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Benny has recorded, performed and collaborated
11.00am
David Bowie and The Beatles, Morning Melodies is sure to get with celebrated artists including Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Freddie Hubbard and Oscar Peterson.
your feet tapping! In this special concert, Benny will share his outstanding artistry accompanied by WAAPA’s
*Handling fees per transaction, please refer to ptt.wa.gov.au talented instrumentalists and vocalists in an evening of exceptional swing and groove. Benny
825 Hay St, Perth
will lead us through jazz’s roots and offshoots - including the blues, bebop, hard-bop and more
modern styles.
Sound Benny Green’s visit is generously supported by Brigid and Ronald W. Woss AM
Spectrum of the Woss Group of Companies.
2020.1 ENRIGHT STUDIO FREE EVENT Music Directors Jeremy Greig and Chris Tarr
Performed by Benny Green (USA) and Jazz students
May
Music Director New voices and new sounds – enjoy a fabulous week of world
May
Lindsay Vickery premieres by Composition and Music Technology students
Performed by and staff. Concerts include the Listener Ensemble, ECUatorial
M T W T F S S Composition and Composers’ Orchestra, EGO (Electric Guitar Orchestra), the
4 5 6 8 Music Technology Western Australian Laptop Orchestra, Shock of the New, and M T W T F S S
students and staff spatial music performances. Don’t miss this explosion of creative 7 9
7.30pm
energy featuring new music by over 50 young composers!
7.30pm
Tickets
$40 Full
$35 Concession
RICHARD GILL $33 Friends
astronomical AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT
Bookings open
Friends 18 Feb
May
Music Director In the 100 years since its premiere, Gustav Holst's influential Public 25 Feb
Lindsay Vickery orchestral work The Planets has shaped the way we imagine the
Performed by sound of space. Composers as diverse as Cage, Ross Edwards,
M T W T F S S Composition and Hindemith, Hovhannes, Ives and Saariaho, and popular artists
7 Music Technology Jewel, Pink Floyd, Rush, Moody Blues, Blur and Indigo Girls
students and staff have all reflected our curiosity with the cosmos in their music.
7.30pm
In this concert, students from the Composition and Music
Technology program have chosen their own heavenly bodies as
musical inspiration.
The German Tickets
$32 Full
Romantics: A GOVERNMENT HOUSE
BALLROOM $27 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 18 Feb
Lieder Recital St Georges Tce, Perth $25 Friends Public 25 Feb
May
Music Directors Come on a journey through the romantic Lieder repertoire with
Emma Matthews music by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Wolf and Brahms.
Anna Sleptsova Performed by Classical Voice and Piano students, this mid-
M T W T F S S Performed by afternoon concert in the beautiful Government House Ballroom
10 Classical Voice and also features Head of Classical Voice, Emma Matthews, and
Piano students Head of Piano Studies, Anna Sleptsova.
3.00pm
12 Photo by Ron Jones 13
Tickets
$20 Full Bookings open
the warana prize Starstruck THE EDITH
$15 Concession
$13 Friends
Friends 14 Apr
Public 21 Apr
May
WAAPA’s three leading instrumentalists join the WAAPA Symphony Music Director WAAPA's Music Artists present their fabulous original works
Orchestra to battle it out in the final of the prestigious 2020 Warana Prize. Vinnie Crea along with creative rearrangements of iconic tunes from
Each student performs their favourite concerto movement in a night of Performed by song masters of our modern times. Prepare to be wowed by
drama and superb musicianship. Internationally-renowned conductor M T W T F S S Music Artist students performances including solo, duo, trio and band pieces plus full
Jessica Gethin also leads the orchestra though Hector Berlioz’ ravishing 14 vocal choir renditions. Don't miss this incredibly talented group of
Roman Carnival Overture and Jean Sibelius’ soaring and electrifying Fifth 7.30pm
students as they raise the roof of WAAPA's Spiegeltent.
Symphony. A wonderful evening of virtuoso soloists and orchestral music at
its best.
Music Director Jessica Gethin
Performed by WAAPA Symphony Orchestra with finalists of the 2020 Warana Prize
Tickets
May
M T W T F S S
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
Tickets
$30 Full
$25 Concession
$23 Friends
drums are the
new violins
RICHARD GILL
AUDITORIUM
$30 Full
$25 Concession
$23 Friends
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Public 21 Apr
May
8 Music Director Sparks fly as the amazing Chinese percussionist Le Yu leads
Bookings open Tim White
Friends 18 Feb
Defying Gravity into a magical world of sound, rhythm and
7.30pm Performed by groove, using marimbas, vibraphones and a kaleidoscope of
Public 25 Feb
All Saints' College Centre M T W T F S S gorgeous and exotic percussion instruments. You’ll also hear
May
Defying Gravity
for Performing Arts All ticket sales through the 14 15 16* percussion percussion classics by Edgard Varèse, Stewart Copeland of
All Saints' College WAAPA Box Office. ensemble with Le Yu The Police, Brazilian samba, and Riverdance in an electrifying
7.30pm (percussion)
Ewing Ave, Bull Creek celebration of the art of percussion!
M T W T F S S Matinee
9 Sat 16 May, 3.00pm
*No evening performance
7.30pm
Tickets
$30 Full
Aurora RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Percussion Duo AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr
May
Performed by Described as ‘superb’ by the Financial Times and ‘extraordinary’
Le Yu by Classical Source, Aurora Percussion Duo produce adrenaline-
Delia Stevens fueled concert performances which are visually spectacular,
M T W T F S S (percussion)
physically demanding and presented with the artistry of dedicated
16 chamber musicians. Aurora performs music spanning centuries
from Bach to the present day, whilst exploring instruments from
7.30pm
the five-octave marimba to the humble egg shaker.
Tickets
$30 Full
World Tour: RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Guitar AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr
May
Music Directors Transcending its Spanish origins, the music of the guitar adapts
Jonathan Paget itself, chameleon-like, to diverse cultures across the globe. The
Melissa Fitzgerald guitar is a global phenomenon, popular from Europe to the
M T W T F S S Performed by Americas, from South-East Asia to Africa. Join us on a world
21 Classical Guitar tour showcasing the diverse and delectable riches of the guitar,
students with staff including selections from China, Japan, Australia, Latin America,
7.30pm
Spain, and more.
14 Romantic Tchaikovsky 2019, photo by Stephen Heath 15
WAAPA JAZZ YOUNG
ARTISTS ENSEMBLE THE EDITH FREE EVENT
May
Music Director WAAPA is proud to welcome back this exciting showcase of the
Jamie Oehlers rising talent of the Western Australian jazz world. High school
Performed by students from years 10, 11 and 12 across WA are invited to
M T W T F S S Jamie Oehlers and perform with this elite group and receive tutoring by WAAPA's
21 selected WA high Head of Jazz, Jamie Oehlers. The group meets for six weeks to
school jazz students workshop tunes and ideas for exploration and improvisation,
7.00pm
culminating in this unique free concert.
The Four Tickets
$30 Full
Seasons: Vivaldi RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
and Piazzola AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr
May
Music Director Two legendary composers who lived centuries apart interpret
Paul Wright the four seasons. The exhilarating music of Antonio Vivaldi and
Performed by Astor Piazzola merges to provide inspiring material for WAAPA's
M T W T F S S String Camerata wonderful String Camerata, lead by Head of Strings Paul Wright.
22 23 with Paul Wright
(violin)
7.30pm
Tickets
VIENNESE $32 Full Bookings open Tickets
RICHARD GILL $27 Concession Friends 14 Apr $30 Full Bookings open
DELIGHTS AUDITORIUM $25 Friends Public 21 Apr RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 14 Apr
wine-dark sea AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr
May
Performed by During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Viennese
May
Kemp English home was the focus of family, intellectual and musical life. Music Director American composer John Mackey’s 2014 symphony for
(fortepiano) and From New Zealand, visiting guest artists Kemp English and Philip Everall band was inspired by Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey,
M T W T F S S Yuka Eguchi (violin)
Yuka Eguchi play a dazzling recital program of Viennese salon Performed by the thrilling adventures of Odysseus as he journeys through
23 masterworks that symbolise not only an era, but also the M T W T F S S Symphonic Wind the Mediterranean following the fall of Troy. This bold
essence of the Viennese spirit. 28 Ensemble and compelling piece combines the full force of WAAPA’s
3.00pm
7.30pm
Symphonic Wind Ensemble, one of WAAPA's biggest and most
spectacular performance groups, with percussion, prepared
pianos and harps.
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Tickets Tickets
$20 Full Bookings open $30 Full Bookings open
$15 Concession Friends 14 Apr RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 14 Apr
BRASSED OFF THE EDITH $13 Friends Public 21 Apr MAGICAL VIENNA AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr
May May
Music Director Brassed Off returns for 2020 with an exciting foray into New Music Directors Magical Vienna – the home of schnitzel, strudel, chocolate
Jeremy Greig Orleans funk. This concert showcases contemporary pop Stewart Smith and coffee – was also, for several hundred years, the epicentre
songs with a funky brass flavour that is guaranteed to get you Anna Sleptsova of European music making. From the life-affirming music of
Performed by
M T W T F S S Jazz Brass students, moving. Featuring the full gamut of brass instruments, from M T W T F S S Performed by Mozart and Beethoven to the expressionist, questioning music
23 staff and community sousaphone to pocket trumpet, this will be an epic adventure - 29 Piano students of Schoenberg and Webern, join WAAPA’s piano students in
don't miss out! and staff, student a vivid exploration of the music inspired by this magical city.
7.30pm 7.30pm chamber musicians, Illuminating the music will be readings from the letters of Mozart
and Bachelor of
and the case notes of Sigmund Freud.
Performing Arts
students
16 17
Tickets
NEW DIRECTIONS IN
PERUVIAN MUSIC THE EDITH
$20 Full
$15 Concession
$13 Friends
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Public 21 Apr
sounds of brazil
THE EDITH
Jul
Music Director
Aug
This exciting musical experience puts the stirring emotional
Daniel Susnjar power and rhythmic grooves of Peruvian jazz centre stage. Led WAAPA'S Brazilian Ensemble performs music from the
Performed by by Afro-Peruvian jazz specialist and award-winning drummer most influential Brazilian artists of the last 50 years,
M T W T F S S
WAAPA Afro- Daniel Susnjar, WAAPA’s jazz and percussion students perform including Sergio Mendes, Milton Nascimento, Djavan,
30 Peruvian Ensemble new compositions and arrangements that showcase this M T W T F S S
Elis Regina and 'The Master' Antonio Carlos Jobim. If
positive, inclusive, life-affirming music. It’s guaranteed to put a 5
7.30pm your only experience of Brazilian music is The Girl from
smile on your face and a syncopated spring in your step! 7.30pm Ipanema, then it's time to broaden your horizons and
experience the incredible variety of rhythms and sounds
Tickets
$20 Full from this exciting, dynamic part of the world.
$15 Concession
$13 Friends Music Director Chris Tarr
Performed by The Brazilian Ensemble
Bookings open
Tickets Friends 14 Apr
$20 Full
Massed Sax: GEOFF GIBBS $15 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Public 21 Apr
HOMECOMING THEATRE $13 Friends Public 21 Apr
Aug
Music Director The Massed Sax project returns to WAAPA in 2020 with award-
Matt Styles winning UK composer, saxophonist and Massed Sax patron,
Performed by Andy Scott. Still the biggest saxophone event of its kind in
M T W T F S S Matt Styles, The Australia, Massed Sax brings together saxophone players
2 'Phone Co., Massed from every corner of Western Australia (and beyond) to join in
Sax Orchestra a celebration of the world’s most versatile instrument. Led by
7.00pm with Andy Scott WAAPA saxophone lecturer Matt Styles, visiting artist Andy
(saxophone)
Scott and The 'Phone Co., this is an event where the saxophone
brings together jazz, classical, contemporary and world music!
To register as a participant, go to waapa.ecu.edu.au/explore
Audience members may purchase tickets to the 7.00pm concert,
refer to details above.
WAAPA thanks the generous support of Selmer Paris, D’Addario,
Zenith Music, Concept Music and BMS Education in making this
event possible.
The 'Phone Co. Tickets WAAPA in the Park 2018. Photo by Stephen Heath
$30 Full
with Strings RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr Tickets
Attached AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 21 Apr $32 Full
Three's RICHARD GILL $27 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr
Aug Company...
Music Directors The extraordinary UK-based duo of Andy Scott and Lauren AUDITORIUM $25 Friends Public 21 Apr
Matt Styles Scott have revolutionised the world of saxophone and harp
Aug
Andy Scott performance. This concert brings these virtuoso musicians Performed by Mozart composed his Piano Trio in C major (KV 548) at the peak
Lauren Scott Geoffrey Lancaster
M T W T F S S together with harpist Catherine Ashley and WAAPA’s most of his creative powers. In this concert, Mozart’s masterpiece
Performed by (fortepiano),
6 outstanding saxophone and harp students in a concert filled keeps company with Beethoven’s first and last piano trios; three
Paul Wright (violin)
The 'Phone Co., with reeds, strings, melody, imagination and groove! M T W T F S S pinnacles from the piano trio repertoire, including Beethoven’s
7.30pm WAAPA Harp and Miranda Murray-
8 Yong (cello) monumental Archduke Trio – the most beautiful of his ground-
Ensemble with
breaking piano trios – clothed in the luminous sonorities of
Andy Scott 3.00pm Classical era instruments, including WAAPA’s new Graf (1819)
(saxophone),
Lauren Scott (harp) fortepiano.
and Catherine
Ashley (harp)
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18 19Tickets Tickets
$20 Full Bookings open $30 Full Bookings open
$15 Concession Friends 21 Jul RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 21 Jul
ELECTRIC JAZZ THE EDITH $13 Friends Public 28 Jul A Soldier's Tale AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul
Aug Aug
Music Director When jazz decided to plug in during the late 1960s, the fusion Music Director The devil tricks a soldier into giving up his violin in return for
Ben Falle of jazz improvisation and strong drum grooves was pioneered Tim White a book that tells the future… Igor Stravinsky brings to life the
Performed by by influential artists such as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Performed by famous Russian folktale about the value of human spirit in the
M T W T F S S Phat Funk Band Corea and Tony Williams. Iconic fusion bands Return to Forever, M T W T F S S Indian Ocean face of greed and materialism. WAAPA’s Executive Dean David
13 Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report have morphed into 27 Ensemble with Shirley joins the Indian Ocean Ensemble and students from
modern incarnations like Tribal Tech and Hiromi. Electric jazz David Shirley WAAPA’s Performance Making course to revel in one of the most
7.30pm also jumped genres into rock, with Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell 7.30pm and Bachelor of influential and dramatic works of the past century. The Seven
and progressive metal groups enshrining their own versions in Performing Arts
Seas world music ensemble also performs a new work filled with
music history. WAAPA’s Jazz students take us on an experimental students
imagination and virtuosity.
journey of jazz fusion’s most famous works, combined with rock,
electric instruments, and plenty of grooves.
Tickets
$30 Full Bookings open
RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 21 Jul
beat that! AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul
Sep
Performed by Polish percussion virtuoso Aleksander Wnuk specialises in the
Aleksander Wnuk most dramatic and exciting of percussion music: works for
(percussion) multi-percussion and percussion theatre. His performances
Tickets
$30 Full M T W T F S S thrill, challenge, excite and mesmerise. Be astonished by the
Guitar Artistry: RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul 2 skill and imagination shown in Wnuk’s showcase performance of
Jane Curry AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul percussion masterworks!
7.30pm
Aug
Performed by From New Zealand, award-winning classical guitarist Jane
Jane Curry (guitar) Curry brings her technical virtuosity and superb musicianship
to WAAPA for a concert of exceptional guitar music. The Tickets
M T W T F S S UK-born, US-trained musician balances international concert $20 Full Bookings open
engagements and CD recordings with the coordination of New $15 Concession Friends 21 Jul
21
Zealand’s largest classical guitar program at Victoria University
MUSES OF MINGUS THE EDITH $13 Friends Public 28 Jul
7.30pm
Sep
in Wellington. Highly sought-after as a soloist, chamber Music Director Charles Mingus was a firebrand bandleader, virtuoso jazz
musician and teacher, she is a member of the renowned New Pete Jeavons musician and prolific composer. He also wrote music for and
Zealand Guitar Quartet, the trio Archi d’Amore Zelanda and
Performed by inspired by other musicians – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat for Lester
Linkwood Guitar Duo. Don't miss this outstanding artist in a
M T W T F S S Mingus Ensemble Young, O.P. for Oscar Pettiford, So Long Eric for Eric Dolphy, and
brilliant solo performance.
3 there are no prizes for guessing who Duke Ellington’s Sound of
Love was written for. WAAPA's Jazz students will play selections
7.30pm of these famous works, tinged with the blues, hard bop, gospel,
free jazz and classical music, in an uplifting tribute concert to this
American jazz legend and his musical muses.
ALBANY Bookings open
Tuesday 21 Jul
Radio Active ENTERTAINMENT
CENTRE
Tickets
$35 Full ticketek.com.au Tickets
Albany 2 Toll Place, Albany $30 Concession Tel: 9844 5005 $30 Full
be glad and RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
Aug sing
Music Directors Radio Active Albany is a unique performance presented by AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul
Mike Eastman the students of Albany Senior High School, Great Southern
Sep
Ric Eastman Grammar and WAAPA Contemporary Music. A week-long Music Directors Following on from last year’s sold-out choral concert with Eneksis
Carrie Pereira Micheál McCarthy Vocal Ensemble and the WAAPA Gospel Choir, the WAAPA Jazz
M T W T F S S series of workshops run by the WAAPA Contemporary Music
Performed by Matt Allen Choir joins the party to raise the roof yet again with glorious
21 staff combining secondary and tertiary students culminates in a Victoria Newton
Contemporary Music choral singing. Hear the joyful sounds of young voices singing
special, one-off performance in one of WA's finest theatres. The M T W T F S S
7.30pm students with Albany Performed by
performance covers a wide musical base from pop to rock, R'n'B 3 4 heavenly harmonies, with repertoire from the 16th century
Senior High School Eneksis Vocal
and Great Southern to soul and funk classics in a spectacularly produced concert through to the modern era, from songs of praise and gospel
with a huge cast of talented young musicians and singers. 7.30pm Ensemble, WAAPA music to jazz standards. WAAPA’s three showcase choirs, led by
Grammar students Gospel Choir and
three extraordinary directors, will bring tears to your eyes – for all
WAAPA Jazz Choir
the right reasons!
20 21Orpheus in the SONGBOOK
underworld SESSIONS
GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE
THE EDITH
Paris, 1889… The perfect meeting point for high society and high fashion. The ideal
rendezvous for God-like men and beautiful women. At a time when public opinion demands From the course that has given the contemporary music
strict morals of all Parisians, how is it the artists of the Moulin Rouge can celebrate their world such exceptional talents as Dulcie, Blake Rose and
liberté, égalité and fraternité with wild abandon? Come with us as we peel back the layers of The Hunting Birds, Songbook Sessions showcases WAAPA’s
French society and descend into the cabaret underworld of the 'city of love'. fabulously creative Music Artists performing great original
songs, classic rearrangements, and a combo of acoustic and
Sep
Director Nicole Stinton
band-driven entertainment. Be prepared for a night of delights
Music Director Vincent Colagiuri
Performed by Classical Voice students as you soak up the musical vibes of the stars of tomorrow in
with the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra WAAPA’s beautiful Spiegeltent. This concert presents unique
M T W T F S S
performances that highlight the WAAPA Music Artist journey.
11 12 Tickets
14 15 16 17 $50 Full Music Director Vinnie Crea
$45 Concession Performed by Music Artists students
7.30pm $43 Friends
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
Public 28 Jul
Sep Tickets
$20 Full
$15 Concession
$13 Friends
M T W T F S S
15 16 Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
7.30pm Public 28 Jul
22 Songbook Sessions 2019 Photo by Stephen Heath 23Tickets
$20 Full
BASIE TO $15 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
BEYONCÉ! THE EDITH $13 Friends Public 28 Jul
Sep
Music Directors From the swinging sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie,
Victoria Newton to the smash hits of pop and R&B powerhouse Beyoncé, the
Jeremy Greig WAAPA Jazz Vocalists and Big Band take you on a journey into
M T W T F S S Performed by the timeless world of vocal big band classics and beyond! Sing
18 WAAPA Jazz along to all-time favourites from Sinatra to The Andrew Sisters; CIY OF PERTH
Vocalists and be wooed by lush vocal arrangements from acclaimed ensembles OPERA IN THE PARK STAR NAVIGATOR ELIJAH
7.30pm Big Band such as New York Voices; and be amazed by roof-raising HANSEL AND GRETEL 28 MARCH 8, 9, 10 MAY
SUPPORTED BY LOTTERYWEST PERTH CONCERT HALL WINTHROP HALL
interpretations of our most outstanding pop and soul divas!
Tickets
$30 Full
Wham...bam... RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
Kaboom! AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul
Oct
Music Director Kaboom Percussion's music videos have been viewed over
Tim White 80 million times – and they join Defying Gravity for a super-
Performed by charged evening of percussive entertainment. It’s a program
M T W T F S S Defying Gravity with brimming with magic, mystery and fun – and a bunch of amazing CAV & PAG THE NIGHTINGALE COSI FAN TUTTE
1 2 3* Kaboom Percussion instruments you’ve never seen before! Music from The Dark 18 - 25 JULY 3 - 4 OCTOBER 24 - 31 OCTOBER
7.30pm
Knight meets voodoo ritual and John Cage, while Defying HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
Gravity explores the cool, fun and funky universe of 1950s
Matinee West Australian Opera is proud to work with Western Australia’s Young Singers and
Sat 3 Oct, 3.00pm bachelor pad music in Jon Newman’s Stereo Action. It’s a hyper-
groovy evening filled with the joy of music! Emma Matthews as Patron of the Wesfarmers Arts Young Artist Program
*No evening performance
Tickets
$30 Full
Royal Over-Seas RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
Sound Spectrum
League Showcase AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 28 Jul 2020.2 ENRIGHT STUDIO FREE EVENT
Oct Oct
Music Director The Royal Over-Seas League assists WAAPA’s most talented Music Director Be amazed by the imaginative, innovative and creative energy
Stewart Smith music students to achieve their dreams on stage in Australia and Lindsay Vickery of the next generation of composers, sound artists and
Performed by internationally. This concert showcases the winners of the ROSL Performed by improvisors, as WAAPA’s Composition and Music Technology
M T W T F S S Winners of the 2020 prizes in Chamber Music, the music of Bach, Improvisation, Art M T W T F S S Composition and students and their lecturers treat you to a week of original
8 ROSL Music Prizes Song, Early Keyboard and Composition. WAAPA is proud to 12 13 14 16 Music Technology works. Enjoy an exciting range of concerts featuring the
partner with the Royal Over-Seas League in recognising and students and staff Listener Ensemble, ECUatorial Composers’ Orchestra, EGO
7.30pm 7.30pm
supporting the stars of tomorrow. (Electric Guitar Orchestra), the Western Australian Laptop
Orchestra, Shock of the New, and spatial music performances.
Tickets Tickets
$32 Full $30 Full
Instruments of RICHARD GILL $27 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 21 Jul
The English RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 1 Sep
time and truth AUDITORIUM $25 Friends Public 28 Jul Orpheus AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 8 Sep
Oct Oct
Performed by WAAPA students and lecturers introduce and play rare and Music Directors Once thought to be musically inferior, the riches of the English
Piano students important harpsichords and pianos from our astonishing, Jonathan Paget musical tradition were rediscovered through musicians such as
and staff growing and extensive store of extraordinary historical keyboard Emma Matthews tenor Peter Pears and virtuoso classical guitarist Julian Bream.
M T W T F S S instruments – this is a concert to delight the ear, move the heart M T W T F S S Melissa Fitzgerald
Pears and Bream premiered new works by modern masters such
10 and fire the imagination. 13 Performed by as Britten, Tippet and Berkeley, while also bringing to light the
Classical Guitar, glories of the lute music of the Elizabethan golden age. Join
3.00pm 7.30pm
Classical Voice us for a celebration of the English Orpheus across the ages, in
students and staff
a musical journey showcasing the best of English songs and
foundingpianos.com.au madrigals, and English music for classical guitar.
24 25drawing RICHARD GILL
sound AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT
Oct
Music Director In 1957, electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram invented a
Lindsay Vickery
BEETHOVEN
drawn sound technique called Oramics that allowed shapes
Performed by to be drawn on film to control the sound produced. The link
M T W T F S S
CELEBRATION
Composition and between sound and vision she created has become increasingly
15 Music Technology important for modern composers. The ground-breaking Oram
students and staff was also the first to create a wholly electronic score at the BBC,
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM 7.30pm
the first to combine acoustic orchestration with live electronic
manipulation (Still Point 1949), the first Studio Manager of
Oct The WAAPA Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 250th anniversary
of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth in style, performing some of the
most dynamic and beautiful music of all time. WAAPA's Head of
the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the first woman to set
up an independent electronic music studio. In this concert,
Composition and Music Technology students pay tribute to this
M T W T F S S
Strings Paul Wright directs the orchestra in Beethoven's gorgeous musical innovator by exploring invented tuning systems and
16 17
Pastoral Symphony, inspired by the composer's legendary love of instruments to create a zany new world of imaginative sound.
7.30pm nature. You’ll also hear Mozart's exquisite Violin Concerto No 5
Tickets
performed by Paul Wright. It’s a 250th birthday party like no other! Tickets
$30 Full
$30 Full "I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven." – Richard Wagner Fantasie auf RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 1 Sep
$25 Concession
$23 Friends "Paul Wright is a national treasure." – Neville Cohn Nachtmusik AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 8 Sep
The West Australian
Oct
Bookings open Music Directors Legendary Australian pianist/composer Joe Chindamo joins
Friends 1 Sep Music Director Paul Wright Joe Chindamo
Public 8 Sep Performed by WAAPA Symphony Orchestra with
violinist Paul Wright and the String Camerata for an extraordinary
Paul Wright program of music, featuring Chindamo's celebrated reimagining
Paul Wright (violin)
M T W T F S S Performed by of Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik. It's a gorgeous
24 Paul Wright (violin) evening of chamber music for strings.
and the String
7.30pm
Camerata with
Joe Chindamo
THE WORLD OF (piano)
BEETHOVEN Tickets
$30 Full
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
Classical Music RICHARD GILL $25 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 1 Sep
Accolades AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 8 Sep
Oct From the light and playful to the
passionate and dramatic, Ludwig
van Beethoven’s piano music is Oct
Music Directors
Stewart Smith
Tim White
A night of celebration and achievement as WAAPA’s music
prizewinners showcase their extraordinary skills. Every year,
WAAPA’s top classical musicians vie for a glittering series of
M T W T F S S beloved repertoire for performers and M T W T F S S Performed by performance prizes and scholarships. Tonight, the recipients of
22 enduringly popular with audiences. 28 2020 Music these prizes dazzle you with their award-winning virtuosity.
Much of Beethoven’s piano music is
7.30pm Prizewinners
expressed through his sonatas, with 7.30pm
Tickets plenty of magnificent works that are
$30 Full timeless classics. To commemorate
$25 Concession the 250th anniversary since this
$23 Friends Tickets
musical genius was born, WAAPA's
$30 Full Bookings open
Bookings open piano students and staff invite you
RICHARD GILL $25 Concession Friends 1 Sep
Friends 1 Sep
Public 8 Sep
to immerse yourself in the world of SPOOKTACULAR! AUDITORIUM $23 Friends Public 8 Sep
Beethoven's magical piano music.
Oct
Music Director It’s the end of the year and time to let our hair down! The
Music Director Anna Sleptsova
Philip Everall Symphonic Wind Ensemble performs a fun selection of fresh
Performed by Piano students and staff
Performed by and frivolous music with a few twists on seasonal classics, paired
M T W T F S S Symphonic Wind beautifully with a modern wind orchestra classic: Johann de
29 Ensemble with Meij’s Symphony No 1, The Lord of the Rings. Renowned cross-
Matt Styles genre saxophonist, Matt Styles, performs the Australian premiere
7.30pm
of a Three Colombian Scenes Concertino for Alto Saxophone
and Band by Victoriano Valencia. Prizes for most ghoulishly
dressed audience member!
26 27FREE LUNCHTIME GRADUATION
CONCERTS RECITALS
CLASSICAL TUESDAYS JAZZ TUESDAYS Graduation recitals are the highlight JAZZ CLASSICAL
of a music student's studies and THE ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB INSTRUMENTAL,
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM 12.30PM bring WAAPA's 2020 music calendar
191 Beaufort Street, Perth CLASSICAL VOICE AND
1.10PM to a thrilling conclusion. After years
WAAPA's Jazz students and staff, along with
of hard practice and performance OCTOBER – NOVEMBER COMPOSITION & MUSIC
special guest artists, provide energetic sounds
A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime
for that afternoon pick-me-up. the standard of these recitals is These recitals are ticketed TECHNOLOGY
concerts featuring students, staff and visiting
exceptional as is the diversity on offer. and bookings are essential via RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
guest artists serving up sumptuous musical 10 March Alfresco
treats for hungry ears! Don't miss these fabulous concerts ellingtonjazz.com.au
17 March Alfresco NOVEMBER
spanning classical, contemporary
Semester 1 31 March Alfresco and jazz. There is something for MUSIC ARTISTS
25 February Student Showcase 21 April The Edith every type of music lover. You will THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL See website one month prior
3 March Postcards from WAAPA Staff 28 April The Edith witness outstanding ensembles of 459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth to recital date for full details
every size and variation performing waapa.ecu.edu.au
10 March Warana Prize Semi-final, Part 1 12 May The Edith NOVEMBER
repertoire from across the spectrum
17 March Warana Prize Semi-final, Part 2 18 August Jazz Studio
as well as plenty of stunning original CONTEMPORARY
24 March Student and Staff Smörgåsbord 25 August Jazz Studio works by the Composition and Music MUSIC
7 April Piano Showcase 1 1 September The Edith Technology students.
THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL
21 April Sound Spectrum Redux I 29 September Jazz Studio
459 Fitzgerald St, North Perth
28 April Symphonic Wind Ensemble 1 20 October The Edith
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER
12 May Defying Gravity 1 27 October Alfresco
19 May String Chamber Music
26 May Eneksis Vocal Ensemble 1
Semester 2
CONTEMPORARY WEDNESDAYS
28 July Richard Gill Award 1.10PM or 2.30PM
4 August Royal Over-Seas League Break for lunch and groove along with
Bach and Art Song WAAPA's Contemporary Music students.
Competitions 26 Feb, 2.30pm Music Box
11 August Indian Ocean Ensemble 11 Mar, 2.30pm Music Box
18 August Guitarissimo! 18 Mar, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
25 August Royal Over-Seas League 25 Mar, 2.30pm Music Box
Chamber Music Competition 1
1 Apr, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
1 September Royal Over-Seas League
Chamber Music Competition 2 22 Apr, 2.30pm Music Box
15 September Sound Spectrum Redux II 29 Apr, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
29 September Defying Gravity 2 13 May, 2.30pm Music Box
6 October Symphonic Wind Ensemble 2 20 May, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
20 October Piano Showcase 2 27 May, 2.30pm Music Box
27 October Eneksis Vocal Ensemble 2 29 Jul, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
5 Aug, 2.30pm Music Box
12 Aug, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
19 Aug, 2.30pm Music Box
26 Aug, 1.10pm Jazz Studio
30 Sep, 2.30pm Music Box
7 Oct, 2.30pm Music Box
21 Oct, 2.30pm Music Box
28 Oct, 2.30pm Music Box
28 29Rise
ICON
WELL
ARRIVAL
30
30 Verge 2019. Photo by Stephen Heath
dance
31Rise GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE ICON AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT
Jun WAAPA’s talented dance students rise to new artistic heights in four Pina Bausch is one of the most important choreographers of the 20th century.
imaginative and entertaining dance works. Visiting international artist In an international first, the Minderoo Foundation supports the remount of Pina Bausch’s Tannhäuser
Niv Marinberg remounts Girls & Boys, an exploration of gender and Bacchanal*. Danced by WAAPA students, this is the first time Tannhäuser Bacchanal will be performed
M T W T F S S community by Israeli choreographer Roy Assaf, while Sue Peacock outside of Germany and the first-ever performance of Pina Bausch's work in Perth. Widely considered to
12 13 remounts Australian choreographer Graeme Watson’s stunning piece, be the precursor to Bausch's famous The Rite of Spring, Tannhäuser Bacchanal will be taught by leading
15 16 17 Bodyline, created in 1987 for Nederlands Dans Theatre 2. Local dancer, artist-in-residence Barbara Kaufmann supported by Marigia Maggipinto, both long-standing members
choreographer, film maker and WAAPA alumna Laura Boynes will of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. The Minderoo Foundation is proud to partner with WAAPA to bring these
7.30pm
create an exciting original contemporary piece while Jane Smeulders, world-class arts practitioners to Perth as part of the Visiting Artist program.
Matinee formerly West Australian Ballet principal artist and now a WAAPA
Nov Pina bausch
Sat 13 Jun, 2.00pm dance lecturer, will choreograph a beautiful new classical ballet.
Tickets Tannhäuser Bacchanal
Choreographers Roy Assaf, remounted by Niv Marinberg; Graeme Watson,
$30 Full Icon celebrates the enormous influence of German choreographer Pina Bausch on
remounted by Sue Peacock; new works by Laura Boynes and Jayne Smeulders M T W T F S S
$25 Concession generations of dance makers and performers around the world. WAAPA is delighted
$23 Friends Performed by 2nd and 3rd Year Dance students 13 14 to welcome two artists from Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal to remount Bausch’s
16 17 18 19 Tannhäuser Bacchanal, in which 23 dancers perform to Wagner’s romantic, restless music.
Bookings open
*Tannhäuser Bacchanal is remounted with kind permission and support from the
Friends 14 Apr 7.30pm
Public 21 Apr Pina Bausch Foundation/Wuppertal.
Venue
Geoff Gibbs
Theatre Meryl Tankard Chants de Mariage
Tickets Meryl Tankard is one of Australia’s finest contemporary dancers and an international artist
$35 Full in her own right. Tankard, a former Pina Bausch company member from 1978 to 1984, will
$30 Concession remount her Chants de Mariage with assistance from award-winning local choreographer
$28 Friends Paige Gordon. This 1991 work for an all-female cast is a dialogue about ritual, secrets,
Bookings open deception and sacred vows.
Friends 1 Sep
Public 8 Sep
Performed by
Michael whaites Things That Remain
2nd and 3rd Year Michael Whaites, artistic director of LINK Dance Company and a former company member
Dance students of Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal, will remount Things That Remain. Whaites created
this nostalgic, gentle and beautiful remembrance in 2009 soon after Pina Bausch’s passing.
Kim Mccarthy
Icon is rounded out by a new work from Kim McCarthy, formerly principal dancer with
Nacho Duato’s Compañia Nacional de Danza and now WAAPA’s Head of Classical Dance.
FEEL
SOMETHING
YOU’VE NEVER
FELT BEFORE
PRINCIPAL
PARTNER
West Australian Ballet, proudly working with WAAPA.
32 Photo by Stephen Heath 33
33Bookings open
Tickets Friends 4 Feb
STATE THEATRE $30 Full Public 11 Feb
CENTRE $25 Concession Tel: 6212 9292
WELL Studio Underground $23 Friends ptt.wa.gov.au
Apr
Choreographers WAAPA’s LINK Dance Company goes underground and
Rainer Behr presents a stunning double bill of contemporary dance works
Michael Whaites
at the State Theatre Centre. Visiting guest artist Rainer Behr,
Sue Peacock
M T W T F S S long-standing member of Pina Bausch’s renowned dance
Performed by
1 2 3 company Tanztheater Wuppertal, choreographs a site-
LINK Dance
responsive new work on the LINK dancers. The program also
7.30pm Company
features the second collaboration between LINK’s artistic
Matinee director Michael Whaites, a Pina Bausch company member
Sat 4 Apr, 2.00pm from 1995 to 2000, and WAAPA’s Head of Dance Sue Peacock.
Well promises an imaginative, dynamic and arresting evening
Booking fees may apply
for lovers of contemporary dance.
174-176 William St, Perth Tickets
$25 Full Bookings open
ENRIGHT $20 Concession Friends 21 July
ARRIVAL STUDIO $18 Friends Public 28 July
Sep Choreographed by
Niharika Senepati
James Welsby
Two rising Melbourne-based
choreographers create dynamic
new contemporary works on the
M T W T F S S LINK Dance Company for their final
Performed by
2 3 4 5 2020 season. WAAPA welcomes
LINK Dance
Company alumna Niharika Senepati, who
7.30pm
since 2012 has worked closely with
Matinee Chunky Move’s artistic director
Sat 5 Sep, 2.00pm Anouk van Dijk as a dancer and
choreographic assistant. Senepati’s
own work incorporates movement,
sound and text to create a holistic
experience. Joining Senepati on the
Arrival program is James Welsby,
a performer, choreographer and
producer of dance, cabaret and
queer performance. A VCA graduate,
he co-founded independent dance
collective Phantom Limbs, toured
Australia in 2015 with his full-length
show Hex, and is the founding
artistic director of festival favourite
cabaret show, Yummy. Expect the
unexpected as these up-and-coming
choreographers weave their magic on
the talented LINK dancers.
34 The Body Politic 2019. Photo by Stephen Heath 35Postgraduate
Research Showcase
RICHARD GILL AUDITORIUM
Apr WAAPA has a thriving postgraduate research program
covering a broad range of performing arts disciplines, with
a particular strength in practice-led research. Our strengths
M T W T F S S include interactive digital music systems, performance
23 practices on historic piano, new directions in jazz,
physiological analysis of human movement, theatre-making,
7.30pm choreography, and much more. The WAAPA Postgraduate
Research Showcase is in part a performance event, and in
FREE EVENT part a series of short research presentations. It offers a rare
opportunity for audiences to sample innovative arts projects
Sep
in their nascent stages, and to view the ideas that will
transform the future of arts discourse.
M T W T F S S Hosted by WAAPA Higher Degree by Research students
17
7.30pm
FREE EVENT
REFRAME
LUNA CINEMAS, LEEDERVILLE
Sep The 2020 WA Screen Academy class of producers, writers, directors,
cinematographers, sound designers and editors present an exciting program
of short original films exploring the theme, Reframe. The films feature the
M T W T F S S talents of WAAPA's Acting students as well as Composition, Sound, Costume
24 and Design students.
6.30pm For further information: ecu.edu.au/wa-screen-academy
Research
36
Films 37HAMLET
THE
ELEPHANT
MAN
A LIE OF THE MIND
THE COMEDY
OF ERRORS
the low road
38 The Cherry Orchard 2019. Photo by Stephen Heath
Acting
39HAMLET
ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE
Actor and director Sean O’Shea returns to his alma
mater to direct William Shakespeare's definitive THE
ELEPHANT
revenge tragedy. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is called
home from university to find his life turned upside
down. His uncle Claudius has murdered his father
MAN
and taken the throne; his mother has married the
usurper. Hamlet’s mission to expose the truth and
avenge his father’s brutal death is a perilous journey
of murder, madness and lost love that has devastating
consequences for his family and the kingdom. DOLPHIN THEATRE
UWA, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Written by William Shakespeare Written by Bernard Pomerance
Directed by Sean O'Shea Directed by Andrew Lewis
Performed by 3rd Year Acting students Performed by 3rd Year Acting students
Apr
M T W T F S S
Tickets
$37 Full
$32 Concession
$30 Friends
2 3 4
6 7 8 Bookings open
Friends 18 Feb
7.30pm Public 25 Feb
Matinee
Sat 4 Apr, 2.00pm
Spurned by society, a horribly deformed young man is a freak attraction
in a travelling sideshow. But when a famous young doctor befriends
him, John Merrick changes from an object of pity to an urbane and witty
favourite of the aristocracy and literati. Can the Elephant Man achieve
normality? And does he even want it? Based on the real-life story of
Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man is a powerful and poignant look
at what it is to be different. Join WAAPA’s graduating actors as they
present Bernard Pomerance’s multi-award-winning play in the intimate
Photo by Kathy Wheatley space of UWA’s Dolphin Theatre.
Tickets
$37 Full
Sep
A LIE OF THE ROUNDHOUSE $32 Concession
Bookings open
Friends 14 Apr M T W T F S S Tickets
$37 Full
MIND THEATRE $30 Friends Public 21 Apr 10 11 12
$32 Concession
14 15 16 $30 Friends
Jun
Written by From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, A Lie of
Sam Shepard the Mind probes the decay at the heart of the American dream. 7.30pm Bookings open
Directed by Two families are linked by marriage but set apart by jealousies Matinee Friends 21 Jul
M T W T F S S Sat 12 Sep, 2.00pm Public 28 Jul
Claudia Barrie and distrust. Jake has battered his wife Beth, yet still yearns
11 12 13 for her while being tended by his incestuously adoring mother.
15 16 17 Performed by
3rd Year Jake’s brother Frankie tracks the brain-damaged Beth to the
7.30pm Acting students home of her crazed Montana parents, only to be shot in the leg
by her gun-toting father. So begins this tale of dysfunctional
Matinee
Sat 13 Jun, 2.00pm families and the American myth gone awry.
40 41
41Tickets
$30 Full
THE COMEDY OF Bookings open
BLACK SWAN IS PROUD
ENRIGHT $25 Concession Friends 21 Jul
ERRORS STUDIO $23 Friends Public 28 Jul
Sep Imagine arriving somewhere new, only to find that everyone
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