2018 PERFORMANCE PROGRAM WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS

1 ABORIGINAL PERFORMANCE ACTING ARTS MANAGEMENT CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSITION & MUSIC TECHNOLOGY WEEdith Cowan UniversityL is proud toCOME be Today’s WAAPA students are the CONTEMPORARY MUSIC the home of the Western Australian stars of tomorrow. Our graduates can COSTUME Academy of Performing Arts. What be found on stage and behind the DANCE other university can boast that it scenes all over the world. They are owns both a unique collection of performers, musicians, technicians, DESIGN historical keyboard instruments and creators, administrators, composers, JAZZ a magnificent Spiegeltent? Or that its producers, promotors, educators and LIGHTING students, staff and visiting guest artists more. The list is virtually endless. We MUSIC THEATRE will be presenting such an astonishing are so proud of them and, just think, OPERA array of performances in 2018. they all started their journey here PERFORMING ARTS Come and join me in sampling the at WAAPA, at ECU, in Perth. You can PROPS & SCENERY riches on offer throughout the year. catch the current crop of students RESEARCH There will be Drama … and singing in action by attending performances SCREEN PERFORMANCE and dancing and music! You will be and by doing so you are supporting SOUND entertained and enlightened and you the future of the arts. STAGE MANAGEMENT will be proud that ECU and WAAPA can produce such talent. Professor Julie Warn AM Executive Dean Professor Steve Chapman CBE Vice-Chancellor

OPEN DAY SUNDAY 12 AUGUST, 10.00AM – 3.00PM The WAAPA / ECU Open Day is a perfect opportunity to explore behind the scenes. Come and see students in action in rehearsals, classes and short concerts. Speak with staff members about course options and find out about auditions. See 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 The Secret Project: Dispatch 2017. Photo Stephen Heath 20183 PROGRAM INDEX May 3-5 Sep Cirque du Rhythm 12 1 Oct Jun Sunday In The Park 4-10 2 1 & 2 Aug With George Royal Over-Seas League: Mar 47 The Seagull 36 From Music Hall Music Scholarships 10 To Cabaret 8 16 Mingus Ah-Um 1 Showcase 22 Piano Wars 8 4-10 18 Unleash Nov The Importance Of 30 Being Earnest 4 & 5 1 16 Apr 37 8 9 Bach & The New Kids Spooktacular! Starstruck: Defying Strings Bravura! Serenade From 1 26 5-6 17 Salzburg The Music Of Meta On The Block Gravity With Miquel 5-11 18 22 Bernat Stradivarius & Friends 10 Overman & 8 Rise 9 33 2 3 30 4 & 5 The Trial All At C 17 12 The Songbook Sessions 42 16-22 12 7-11 Open Day 1-8 22 Mozart's Requiem 2 Tilt Atlas 11 Sound Spectrum 2018.1 43 16-22 36 13 13 8-12 From Marathon To Guitar Heroes 16 Sound Spectrum 2018.2 Waterloo, In Order 9 17 Phat Funk! 6 23 16-22 12-14 18 Songs From The Coast Categorical The Crucible Havana Nights With The A Different Kind 20 26 36 Rodriguez Brothers of 'B' Line 15-21 10 13 Ajax If Afghanistan 24 10 37 Chrystian Dozza: 7 & 8 The Guitar in Dance 16-22 16-22 Faith Court Orchestra: And Dream Aboriginal The Arabian Nights 9-12 My Brazil 23 Performance 47 26 Solo Stage: Alchemy 15-21 19 The Warana Prize & 40 Original Blends 42 A Streetcar Named Beethoven's Fifth 12 24 20 10-13 17-24 10 Desire 37 The House On The HIll 17-24 In The Heights Radio Active (Albany) 42 Verge 46 29 Kid A 13 19 6-9 31 An Afternoon With 16-23 Postgraduate Research 11 Emma Matthews Carousel 24-30 Showcase In The Field - Soundscape 21 12 11-13 48 Stuff Happens 33 Gospel Carnaval Glitter And Be Gay 38 Recording 8 14 23 12-16 12 24-30 WA Dance Makers 12-18 24 Brassed Off Two Gentlemen Of WAAPA In The Park 13 Project Bullies 39 9 Verona 38 32 17 Dec 29 Pacific Rim Art 13-15 12-18 25 Radio Active (Perth) A Midsummer Night's 6-9 An Intimate Evening Song Project Violin Xtreme 20 Dream Musicological Society With Schubert & 15 Jul 19 39 of Australia 2018 Schumann 10 19 16-20 13-15 National Conference 33 25-31 Thunderstruck 13-20 Come And Sing Keys In The City Sunday In The Park 20 Rock Of Ages With Mary KIng 17 With George 47 15 47 16 15-20 23-26 & Saxophone 29 30 Extravaganza Cinderella 24 Equal Different Rejoice! 32 19 21 18 24 19 Love Is In The Air WAAPA Jazz Young 28-31 Sentimental Moods 25 Artists Ensemble Unleash 30 And Soulful Attitudes 15 21 24 Classical Music 24 29-31 20 Forward, March! Tilt Baroque Harpsichord Accolades 15 43 21 25 30 31 27 Frédéric Chopin: The Music Of Meta 27 Mad About • Aboriginal Performance Poet Of The Piano Uncharted Territory Mozart 16 Overman 39 25 • Acting 33 • Dance 31 31 • Films Landscapes Of The Salut d'Amour Australian Guitar 25 • Music 16 • Music Theatre 31 • Performing Arts From Music Hall To • Research Cabaret 4 16 Program Index 5 Music CLASSICAL VOICE & OPERA CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORICAL PIANO SERIES AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH STARSTRUCK: DEFYING GRAVITY WITH MIQUEL BERNAT PIANO WARS SCHUBERT & SCHUMANN STRADIVARIUS & FRIENDS ALL AT C MOZART'S REQUIEM ORIGINAL BLENDS BAROQUE HARPSICHORD AN AFTERNOON WITH EMMA MATTHEWS CIRQUE DU RHYTHM GLITTER AND BE GAY MAD ABOUT MOZART PACIFIC RIM ART SONG PROJECT A DIFFERENT KIND OF 'B' LINE COME AND SING WITH MARY KING! FORWARD, MARCH! JAZZ FROM MUSIC HALL TO CABARET FREDERIC CHOPIN: POET OF THE PIANO GOSPEL CARNAVAL REJOICE! LANDSCAPES OF THE AUSTRALIAN GUITAR CINDERELLA STRINGS BRAVURA! HAVANA NIGHTS WITH THE RODRIGUEZ BROTHERS FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO, SERENADE FROM SALZBURG BRASSED OFF IN ORDER CATEGORICAL CHRYSTIAN DOZZA: MY BRAZIL WAAPA JAZZ YOUNG ARTISTS ENSEMBLE GUITAR HEROS COMPOSITION & MUSIC VIOLIN EXTREME FAITH COURT ORCHESTRA: THE WARANA PRIZE MINGUS AH-UM TECHNOLOGY & BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH PHAT FUNK! SOUND SPECTRUM 2018.1 THUNDERSTRUCK SONGS FROM THE COAST KID A SAXOPHONE EXTRAVAGANZA SENTIMENTAL MOODS AND SOULFUL ATTITUDES SOUND SPECTRUM 2018.2 ROYAL OVER-SEAS LEAGUE: IN THE FIELD – SOUNDSCAPE RECORDING MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS SHOWCASE SPECIAL EVENTS BACH & THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK WAAPA IN THE PARK THE GUITAR IN DANCE AND DREAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC KEYS IN THE CITY 2018 LOVE IS IN THE AIR RADIO ACTIVE (ALBANY & PERTH) CLASSICAL MUSIC ACCOLADES THE SONGBOOK SESSIONS SALUT D'AMOUR SPOOKTACULAR!

6 Megan Washington in Concert 2017. Photo Kathy Wheatley 7 Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 6 Feb Piano Wars MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Performed by During the 1790s, Joseph Haydn was the most important Geoffrey Lancaster Viennese composer to visit England. Whilst in London, he Mar encountered the English-style piano, an instrument vastly M T W T F S S different in sound, touch and design from the pianos used in 10 Vienna. Four of Haydn’s finest keyboard sonatas will be played 3.00pm by acclaimed fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster on some of the Viennese and English pianos available at WAAPA – hear Haydn’s intoxicating and effervescently life-affirming thoughts as revealed by instruments of his time.

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Starstruck: Defying Gravity With FREMANTLE ARTS Tickets Bookings now open CENTRE $24 Full Tickets fac.org.au Miquel Bernat 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle $15 Students/Concession or 9432 9555

Music Director Spanish percussion superstar Miquel Bernat entrances listeners Tim White with beauty and virtuosity, as the rapturous sounds of ancient Mar Performed by and modern percussion soar through the trees and gardens of M T W T F S S Defying Gravity the Fremantle Arts Centre. WAAPA’s award-winning Defying 16 percussion ensemble Gravity percussion ensemble presents a magical evening of 7.00pm with Miquel Bernat musical masterworks: Vincent Plush’s Summoning of the Sun glistens with the radiance of the sun; Marc Mellit’s Gravity fills the air with energy and rhythm; and Peter Sculthorpe’s From Jabiru Dreaming brings the glory of Kakadu to life. Enjoy an unforgettable night of beautiful music under the stars!

FREMANTLE ARTS Tickets Bookings now open CENTRE $24 Full Tickets fac.org.au Gospel Carnaval 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle $15 Students/Concession or 9432 9555 WAAPA in the Park Music Directors This much-loved family friendly night of entertainment under RON STONE PARK, Mount Lawley (opposite WAAPA) Chris Tarr the stars features some of the most talented musicians and Mar Matthew Allen performers from WAAPA's Jazz and Contemporary music streams. WAAPA in the Park is now in its 11th year of fantastic free family entertainment. M T W T F S S Performed by The WAAPA Gospel Choir performs songs inspired by traditional The City of Stirling, Edith Cowan University and WAAPA proudly present Australia’s 21 WAAPA Brazilian African American gospel and will feature songs by artists Kirk Mar premier performing arts academy in concert. Be wowed by the phenomenal Phat Ensemble and M T W T F S S 7.00pm Franklin, Trey McLaughlin and the Harlem Gospel Choir. Funk Band and WAAPA’s most accomplished Jazz and Contemporary musicians as Gospel Choir 24 they rock, bop and strut their way through an awesome collection of old and new The fun continues with the infectious rhythms of carnival and 7.00pm funk, soul, pop and jazz classics. samba as the Brazilian Ensemble showcases a range of Latin music from composers Antonio Carlos Jobim, Egberto Gismonte, FREE EVENT Music Directors Chris Tarr, Ben Falle, Ric Eastman and Mike Eastman Toninho Horta, Milton Nascimento and more. Performed by Jazz and Contemporary students

8 WAAPA in the Park 2017. Photo Stephen Heath Music 9 An Intimate Evening Tickets Bookings open With Schubert & $28 Full Friends 6 Feb Schumann MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Music Director Some of the world's oldest stories persist in popular memory David Wickham and in great songs not least. From the heroic myths of Egypt, Mar Performed by Greece and Rome to the magical depths of German forests and M T W T F S S Classical Vocal the heights of mountains, Schubert, Schumann and their poets 29 students have musically painted vivid, breathtaking scenes. WAAPA's 7.30pm postgraduate singers are mentored by the equally legendary Emma Matthews and accompanied by piano shaman David Wickham. Mozart's Requiem Tickets Bookings open ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL Stradivarius & $28 Full Friends 6 Feb Victoria Square, Perth Friends MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Mozart's extraordinary final work - the uplifting, passionate and Performed by Witness Alexandre Da Costa’s WAAPA musical dream: teaming up deeply moving - fills the beautiful St Mary's Cathedral Alexandre Da Costa with friends and colleagues to play different styles of repertoire. Apr Requiem Apr and WAAPA Music Alexandre, armed with his 1701 Stradivarius, will play Bach as WA's finest young singers and orchestral players, led by Paul M T W T F S S M T W T F S S staff with Stewart Smith, Brahms with Anna Sleptsova, Jarrett with Wright, join forces in music that will leave you spellbound. 12 5 6 David Wickham, and works by the late Graham Wood with Tom Coupled with Renaissance works for choir and brass by Gabrieli 7.30pm O’Halloran. Come and feel the energy of this tremendous artistic 7.30pm and the astounding choral music of the UK's most successful line-up in a program of many different styles: from the Baroque composer, James MacMillan, this is one of the choral events of era to modern times, from classical to jazz. Tickets $32 Full the year. $27 Concession/Friends Music Director Kristin Bowtell Bookings open Performed by Classical Vocal students and Faith Court Orchestra Friends 6 Feb Havana Nights With Public 13 Feb The Rodriguez Brothers

GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE Music Directors Jeremy Greig and Chris Tarr Apr Performed by Rodriguez Brothers and Jazz students M T W T F S S 12 13 14 Grammy Award nominated, Latin jazz artists, The Rodriguez Brothers are pianist/composer Robert and trumpeter/composer 7.30pm Michael. Born into a musical family in NYC and raised in Miami, Tickets the Rodriguez Brothers studied throughout high school at the $33 Full New World School of the Arts. Having worked with the biggest $25 Concession/Friends names in Jazz; Roy Haynes, Charlie Haden, Wynton Marsalis, Bookings open Harry Connick Jr., Richard Bona and Quincy Jones, it is with great Friends 6 Feb Public 13 Feb excitement we welcome them to WAAPA for this celebration of Afro-Cuban music in New York. From the Mambo craze of the '40s and the Salsa of the '70s through to the current sounds of Timba and Latin influenced Jazz.

10 Transcendental Voices 2017. Photo Stephen Heath Music 11 Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 6 Feb Sound Spectrum MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE Original Blends 2018.1 ECU Mount Lawley FREE EVENT Music Director Discovering just what makes music individual and original has Music Director This festival of new sounds features WAAPA’s Composition Matt Styles been the constant source of inspiration for composers and Lindsay Vickery and Music Technology students and staff performing five Apr Performed by musicians. Leonard Bernstein (Prelude Fugue and Riffs), Steve May Performed by M T W T F S S nights of original music at ECU's Spectrum Project Space. Hear WAAPA Music Martland (Beat the Retreat) and Bill Ryan (Original Blends) M T W T F S S Composition and experimental acoustic and electronic music performances, 26 students and staff are three of a multitude of composers who have painstakingly 7 8 9 11 Music Technology installations, audio visual works, DJ artists and world premieres 7.30pm students and staff searched for originality and found that ‘special something’. Staff 7.30pm from Aletheia, Certifiable, Ecuatorial 1 and 3, Shock Of The New and students from Classical, Jazz and Contemporary Music join and more. together to present an event where classical, jazz, minimalism and funk collide, collude and collaborate to produce some truly ‘original blends’. Tickets Bookings open A Different Kind $30 Full Friends 3 Apr An Afternoon With Tickets Bookings open MUSIC AUDITORIUM $25 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr GOVERNMENT $35 Full Friends 6 Feb Of 'B' Line $30 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Emma Matthews HOUSE BALLROOM Performed by The great composers Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are often Music Director The wonderful Emma Matthews, Australia’s favourite soprano Thomas Hecht referred to as 'the 'Three B’s'. Pianist Thomas Hecht follows Emma Matthews and WAAPA’s new Head of Classical Voice, shares with us May pathways from the Old World to the New, drawing parallels M T W T F S S Apr Performed by some of her personal favourites in a delightful afternoon of to a modern American 'B' – the neoclassic composer Samuel 9 M T W T F S S Emma Matthews, song ranging from Schubert and Fauré, to Bellini and Jerome Barber, whose piano writing owes as much to the pithy sonatas 29 Classical Vocal Kern. Joining her will be WAAPA's postgraduate Classical Vocal 7.30pm of Beethoven as it does to the enriched sonorities of Brahms. 4.00pm students, students. Finally the whole Classical Vocal department joins Thomas Hecht’s dynamic program will feature Beethoven's Six David Wickham and voices to sing Bellini's epic Casta Diva and the thrilling Si ridesta Bagatelles Opus 126, the hauntingFour Ballades Opus 10 of the WAAPA Opera in ciel … Sempre libera from Verdi’s La Traviata. Brahms, and Barber’s Ballade (1977) and Sonata (1949), a 20th Chorus century tour de force.

Tickets Bookings open Cirque du Rhythm $28 Full Friends 6 Feb Kid A MUSIC AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb MUSIC AUDITORIUM Music Director Twenty years ago, following the release of their album Ok Lindsay Vickery All the fun of the circus! Percussion virtuoso Marcus Perrozzi returns to WAAPA Computer, the English alternative rock band Radiohead were at May Performed by the height of their fame. In what has been called 'the greatest after 1300 performances and five globe-trotting years with Cirque du Soleil’s M T W T F S S May show to power up Defying Gravity with his extraordinary musical skills and Composition and about-face ever accomplished by a guitar band', they then Dralion 10 M T W T F S S Music Technology began developing the twin albums Kid A and Amnesiac, which experiences. It’s a super-charged circus-inspired evening of musical entertainment, students 3 4 5 a joy-filled show brimming with surprise, delight and wonder… and supreme 7.30pm incorporated influences and techniques from electronica, free jazz, acousmatic and Avant Garde Art music. This concert 7.30pm musicianship. features works by WAAPA Composition and Music Technology Matinee Music Director Tim White students responding to this key moment that mainstreamed the Sat 5 May, 2.00pm Performed by Defying Gravity with Marcus Perrozzi and friends aesthetics and techniques of alternative musical exploration.

Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Brassed Off MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Music Director Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for some serious Jeremy Greig funky good times as WAAPA's talented Jazz musicians, special May Performed by guests from the West Australian music community, WAYJO and M T W T F S S Jazz Brass students selected schools, present this interactive performance of New 12 and special guests Orleans modern jazz and funk. 7.30pm 12 13 Defying Gravity. Photo Jon Green Music Tickets Bookings open Pacific Rim $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Art Song Project MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Music Director The song is still the most vivid, profound and intimate of Glitter David Wickham expressive tools. Composers from Australia, New Zealand, May Performed by Japan and the United States have contributed new songs M T W T F S S Kevin Hanrahan, for outstanding American tenor Kevin Hanrahan and WAAPA And Be 17 David Wickham singers. David Wickham and WAAPA pianists accompany this Gay and Classical Vocal 7.30pm inspiring and moving program. students

Come And Sing With Registration fees Register $95 Full waapa.ecu.edu.au/ Mary King! THE EDITH $65 Concession/Friends performances Music Director Keen singers, shy singers, bathroom singers and stage animals Mary King of all kinds are invited to our Spiegeltent, The Edith, for a day of May Performed by sheer joy with the inspiring Mary King (UK). Mary will lead you M T W T F S S You! on an exciting exploration of music ranging from musical theatre 19 hits such as Oh, I Can't Sit Down from Porgy and Bess to the 10.00am - 5.00pm most popular opera chorus of all time, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco. Places are limited – please refer to the WAAPA website for details. No preparation is necessary and Music Director Peter Moore OAM participants will be given a copy of the music on arrival. Performed by Faith Court Orchestra with soloist Emma Matthews

Superstar Emma Matthews, Australia’s renowned All Saints’ College Centre international opera star, returns to Perth as WAAPA’s May For Performing Arts new Head of Classical Voice. Emma’s voice soars with All Saints’ College WAAPA Jazz Young M T W T F S S Ewing Ave, Bull Creek passion, beauty and drama in ravishing songs and 11 THE EDITH FREE EVENT spectacular arias by Rossini, Duparc and Bernstein Artists Ensemble – while Peter Moore OAM directs the Faith Court 7.30pm Music Director In an exciting collaboration, WAAPA and WAYJO come together Orchestra in beloved orchestral masterworks by Tom O’Halloran to present a showcase of the rising stars of the jazz world in Claude Debussy and Leonard Bernstein. Don’t miss May Performed by the WAAPA Jazz Young Artists Ensemble. Year 12 students from Judith Cottier Theatre M T W T F S S Jazz students, this astonishing performance! Perth College across WA are invited to perform with this elite group, being 24 WAYJO and invited “A glittering coloratura voice combining strength, May 31 Lawley Crescent tutored by WAAPA’s Tom O’Halloran. M T W T F S S Year 12 students control, agility and a vast expressive range, Emma Mount Lawley 7.00pm 12 from across the Matthews is not so much vocalist as instrument: a state whole-of-body conduit for ideas and emotions.” 7.30pm - Eamonn Kelly, The Australian Churchlands Concert Hall Program: Tickets Bookings open May Churchlands Senior $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Songs and arias by Rossini, Duparc and Bernstein High School MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr M T W T F S S 20 Lucca St, Churchlands Forward, March! Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 13 Music Director Giacomo Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville The WAAPA Symphonic Wind Ensemble shines its boots and 3.00pm Dale Pointon marches into 2018 with a program celebrating the military band Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West May Performed by tradition. Join us as we present Morton Gould’s modern classic Side Story M T W T F S S Symphonic Wind West Point Symphony, alongside a collection of works for, and Tickets Bookings open 24 $35 Full Friends 6 Feb Ensemble inspired by, history’s greatest military bands by Bizet, Walton, $27 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Courtesy Opera Australia. Photo Ken Leanfore 7.30pm and Australia’s Percy Grainger. All ticket sales through the WAAPA Box Office 14 Music 15 Tickets Bookings open Frédéric Chopin: Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 3 Apr $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Strings Bravura! MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Poet Of The Piano MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Music Director WAAPA’s leading string students parade their skills in a Music Director WAAPA's talented piano students present this celebration of Alexandre Da Costa performance of works by legendary composers, from Bach Anna Sleptsova Chopin’s beloved piano music. Showcasing the composer's Jun Performed by to Prokofiev. Come and hear impressive virtuosity as well as May Performed by lavish collection of Ballades, favourites with pianists and M T W T F S S String students and enchanting melodies. Alexandre Da Costa joins his students to M T W T F S S Classical Piano audiences alike, this program also features the monumental 8 Alexandre Da Costa perform one of his signature pieces in a concert that overflows 30 students with Anna Sonata for Piano and Cello in G minor, Opus 65 – a rare treat for Sleptsova (piano) 7.30pm with charm, energy and virtuosity… music at its most dazzling 7.30pm the audience! and Louise MacKay and irresistible. (cello)

Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Landscapes Of The Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 3 Apr All At C MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Australian Guitar Music Director Join fortepianists Geoffrey Lancaster and James Huntingford as Music Director The guitar in Australia has experienced a renaissance of Geoffrey Lancaster they present three of Beethoven’s most popular and revolutionary Jonathan Paget popularity. In this explosion of exciting musical activity, many Jun Performed by piano sonatas – works in C, each of which were deemed in the May Performed by composers look to the landscape for inspiration. Special guest M T W T F S S Geoffrey Lancaster composer’s lifetime as heinous and incomprehensible musical M T W T F S S Classical Guitar Australian guitarist Ken Murray joins WAAPA's guitar students 9 and James crimes. Revel in Beethoven’s world of musical thought, emotion 31 Huntingford students with for a fascinating musical journey into the Australian outback, 3.00pm and inexhaustible inventiveness, as brought to light by the special guest artist 7.00pm from the musically iconic to the arcane. enthralling voices of the pianos of his time. Ken Murray

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Tickets Bookings open From Music Hall $31 Full Friends 3 Apr Tickets Bookings open To Cabaret THE EDITH $26 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Guitar Heroes THE EDITH $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Music Director Mary King Performed by Classical Vocal students Music Director WAAPA guitar lecturer, Freddie Grigson, leads the incredibly May Freddie Grigson For all amusement seekers everywhere, we propose an evening of delights talented jazz guitar students through a diverse range of music Jun Performed by prodigious and fantastical, celebrating the music hall of London (where, featuring the king of the string instruments (according to Jun M T W T F S S Jazz Guitar students them!). Expect anything from Wes Montgomery to Jimi Hendrix as Charles Dickens said, "nothing comes foreign to the proprietor"), the M T W T F S S 13 and everything in between. cafe concerts of gay Paris and the dangerous satire of Berlin at its bleakest, 31 1 2 7.30pm culminating in the glamour of Hollywood! 7.30pm Matinee Sat 2 Jun, 2.00pm

CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY Keys In The City 2018 573 Hay St, Perth FREE EVENT Hosted by This incarnation of Keys In The City sees four of Western Stewart Smith Australia’s greatest keyboard instrumentalists take visitors on Jul Geoffrey Lancaster a journey of sound across an assortment of rare and historical M T W T F S S James Huntingford keyboard instruments in the beautiful City of Perth Library. 16 17 18 19 20 Cecilia Sun

Tour times: 9.30am – 11.30am 12.30pm – 2.30pm

16 17 Come and Sing with Mary King 2017. Photo Stephen Heath Music Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Chrystian Dozza: $30 Full Friends 24 Jul Mingus Ah-Um THE EDITH $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul My Brazil MUSIC AUDITORIUM $25 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Music Director Affectionately known as “The Angry Man of Jazz,” Charles Performed by One of the most exciting Brazilian classical guitarists on the Pete Jeavons Mingus’ compositions of the '50s and '60s still push the Chrystian Dozza international scene, Chrystian Dozza came to prominence Aug Performed by boundaries today. His explosive personality and refusal to Aug and Classical Guitar as a member of the internationally-acclaimed Quarternaglia M T W T F S S Jazz students compromise musically has placed him in history as one of M T W T F S S students Guitar Quartet. He is renowned for his delectable musical 8 America’s absolute greats. This high-energy ensemble will pay 24 compositions that elegantly encapsulate the spirit of modern 7.30pm tribute to this legend, playing an assortment of Mingus’ most 7.30pm Brazil – combining folk and jazz influences, poetic classical famous works tinged with soul, hard bop, gospel, free jazz and sophistication and eye-popping guitar virtuosity. Chrystian will classical music. perform a stunning selection of his solo guitar music and will be joined by WAAPA guitar students for special performances of Tickets Bookings open some of his larger works. $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Phat Funk! THE EDITH $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul ALBANY Bookings open Music Director Come and witness the sensational sounds and glorious ENTERTAINMENT Tickets Tuesday 20 Jun Ben Falle grooves of the WAAPA Phat Funk Band in a one-off musical CENTRE $36 Full ticketek.com.au $26 Concession/Friends Tel: 9844 5005 Aug Performed by extravaganza. Get down and boogie with all the classic soul, Radio Active Albany 2 Toll Place, Albany M T W T F S S Phat Funk Band neo-soul, funk and R&B favourites. These talented WAAPA Music Directors Radioactive in residence is a unique performance presented 16 musicians will bring the house down with their powerful Mike Eastman by the students of Great Southern Grammar, Albany Senior 7.30pm performance, soaring horn section and burning solos. Aug Ric Eastman High School and WAAPA. It is the culmination of a series of M T W T F S S Matt Allen workshops run over a week by the WAAPA Contemporary 24 Performed by Music staff combining secondary and tertiary students to Contemporary Music 7.30pm present a special, one-off performance in one of the state’s students with finest theatres. Serenade From Salzburg Aug Albany Senior High MUSIC AUDITORIUM School and M T W T F S S Great Southern Join WAAPA’s superb wind chamber ensemble as they perform the sublime 9 Grammar students Gran Partita by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The program also features the 7.30pm acclaimed WAAPA brass ensemble performing the music of Giovanni Gabrieli Tickets Bookings open and the exquisite Mutations on Bach by American composer Samuel Barber. Tickets $35 Full Friends 24 Jul $28 Full Violin Xtreme MUSIC AUDITORIUM $27 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Music Directors Philip Everall and Brent Grapes $23 Concession/Friends Music Director Performed by Wind and Brass students Bookings open WAAPA's Alexandre Da Costa, presents a stunning program Friends 24 Jul Alexandre Da Costa which he describes as ‘the Olympic Games for the violin’. Public 31 Jul Aug Performed by Showcasing the instrument’s most popular repertoire, this is a M T W T F S S Alexandre Da Costa, chance to hear one of the world’s finest virtuosos in full flight 25 Anna Sleptsova and on a stunning Stradivarius violin. Joined by WAAPA's acclaimed friends 7.30pm pianist Anna Sleptsova, this will be a thrilling, edge-of-your Matinee seat concert. Sat 25 Aug, 2.00pm

Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Rejoice! MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Music Directors Two of WAAPA’s outstanding showcase choirs come together to Micheál McCarthy raise the roof with glorious choral singing. Hear the joyful sound Aug Matthew Allen of young voices singing heavenly praises, with repertoire from M T W T F S S Performed by the 16th century through to the modern era. These two hugely 29 30 Eneksis Vocal popular choirs, led by two extraordinary directors, will bring Ensemble and tears to your eyes - for all the right reasons! 7.30pm WAAPA Gospel Choir 18 19 18 Alexandre Da Costa Plays Beethoven 2017. Photo Kathy Wheatley Music Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open Songs From $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Saxophone PERTH COLLEGE $28 Full Friends 24 Jul The Coast THE EDITH $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Extravaganza Judith Cottier Theatre $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Music Director The WAAPA Afro-Peruvian ensemble showcases high-level Music Director Come and be blown away with the sound of 130 saxophones. Daniel Susnjar WAAPA music students from all year groups collaborating Matt Styles The saxophone has proved itself time and again as the Sep Performed by to perform original music combining Afro-Peruvian and jazz Sep Performed by instrument that can travel the world engendering and M T W T F S S Daniel Susnjar and musical elements. Founded by award-winning drummer/ M T W T F S S Classical Saxophone promoting the spirit of collaboration and ‘community’. Now in 6 Jazz students composer Daniel Susnjar, this group also makes use of 16 students and the its sixth year this concert presents the culmination of rehearsals WA community of 7.30pm traditional percussion instruments unique to Peru. 7.00pm and workshops by this rich and varied ensemble of musicians saxophonists from WA's primary and high schools, students and staff from WAAPA and seasoned professionals. Don't miss this spectacular PERTH COLLEGE homage to the wonderful saxophone. Faith Court Orchestra: 31 Lawley Crescent Tickets Bookings open Mount Lawley The Warana Prize & $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Beethoven's Fifth MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Music Director A night of drama and superb musicianship as WAAPA’s three Tickets Bookings open Sentimental Moods And $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Christopher Dragon leading instrumentalists join the Faith Court Orchestra to battle Soulful Attitudes THE EDITH $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Sep Performed by it out in the final of the prestigious 2018 Warana Prize, as M T W T F S S Faith Court each student performs their favourite concerto movement. To Music Director The Jazz Vocal Ensemble will take you on an eclectic musical 7 8 Orchestra with the round out the program, internationally-renowned conductor Victoria Newton journey encompassing hits by jazz greats Duke Ellington and finalists for the Sep Performed by 7.30pm Christopher Dragon conducts the Faith Court Orchestra in Hoagy Carmichael and exciting and innovative choral works by 2018 Warana Prize Dimitry Kabalevky’s dazzling Colas Breugnon Overture, and M T W T F S S Jazz Vocal Ensemble Bobby McFerrin. They’ll have you grooving in your seats to soul Ludwig van Beethoven’s majestic and beloved Fifth Symphony. 19 classics with lush vocal harmonies in abundance. A wonderful evening of orchestral music at its best. 7.00pm

Tickets Bookings open GEOFF GIBBS $37 Full Friends 24 Jul Radio Active THEATRE $27 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Baroque Harpsichord Sep Music Directors Radio Active is a high-energy celebration of chart toppers from MUSIC AUDITORIUM M T W T F S S Mike Eastman every decade from the '50s through to today's hits. The show 20 Sep Ric Eastman features a diverse repertoire of music from pop to rock, R&B to WAAPA is the proud owner of a specially commissioned harpsichord by Bruce 7.30pm M T W T F S S Matt Allen soul and funk classics in a spectacularly produced concert with Kennedy, one the world’s greatest craftsmen. Stewart Smith will officially 13 14 15 Performed by a huge cast of highly talented young musicians and singers. launch this instrument in a program featuring the music of JS Bach and his Contemporary Music contemporaries. Joining him will be virtuoso violinist, Paul Wright and select 7.30pm students string students in a performance of Georg Muffat’s ravishing G Major Suite from Armonico Tributo. www.foundingpianos.com.au Music Director Stewart Smith Tickets Bookings open Performed by Stewart Smith, Paul Wright and Classical Music students Tickets $28 Full Friends 24 Jul $28 Full Thunderstruck MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul $23 Concession/Friends Music Director Rapturous and exotic, gorgeous and romantic, passionate and Bookings open Tim White Friends 24 Jul powerful: an ace team of percussion magicians joins Defying Public 31 Jul Sep Performed by Gravity to create musical alchemy in a heavenly world made M T W T F S S Defying Gravity entirely of sound. The winners of Triple J’s 2017 Listen Out 13 14 15 with special guests: competition, Feels is a dynamic WA-based duo blending high- 7.30pm ‘Feels’: Rosie Taylor energy percussion with funky melodies and ravishing electronic and Elise Reitze beats. Virtuoso percussionist Pavan Kumar Hari, introduces Matinee and Pavan Kumar dancers and musicians from WA’s Temple of Fine Arts, revealing Sat 15 Sep, 2.00pm Hari and the Temple of Fine Arts Dancers a mystical world of exotic instruments, seductive timbres, breathtaking images and the overwhelming power of rhythm! 20 The Bach Connection 2017. Photo Stephen Heath Music 21

Bookings open Sound Spectrum Royal Over-Seas League: Tickets Friends 11 Sep SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE Music Scholarships Showcase MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Flat fee Public 18 Sep 2018.2 ECU Mount Lawley FREE EVENT Performed by The Royal Over-Seas League helps WAAPA’s most talented Music Director Fresh from the oven, a week of new music by WAAPA’s Scholarship winners music students achieve their dreams on stage in Australia and Lindsay Vickery Composition and Music Technology students and staff at ECU's Oct internationally. The 2018 ROSL Scholars perform alongside the Oct Performed by Spectrum Project Space. New voices of the next generation of M T W T F S S winners of the inaugural ROSL prizes in: Chamber Music; the M T W T F S S Composition and composers, sound artists and improvisers will perform over 10 8 9 10 12 2 Music of Bach; Improvisation; Art Song and Early Keyboard. Music Technology hours of world premieres. The concerts feature Ecuatorial 2 and students and staff 7.30pm WAAPA are proud to partner with the Royal Over-Seas League in 7.30pm 4, Spatial Music, the Western Australian Laptop Orchestra and recognising and supporting the stars of tomorrow. Shock of the New.

Tickets Bookings open Bach & The New $28 Full Friends 11 Sep Kids On The Block MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep Music Director The WAAPA Camerata presents an evening of Baroque beauty Alexandre Da Costa with a full spread of romantic and modern vision. Bach, Vivaldi, The Guitar In Tickets Bookings open Oct Performed by Corelli, Albinoni and other Baroque heroes revisited by modern $28 Full Friends 11 Sep M T W T F S S String Camerata and composers in transcriptions for string ensemble. Bach would Dance And Dream MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep 4 5 Alexandre Da Costa probably disapprove, but he would secretly love it! Music Director The guitar has always belonged to the people; across its history 7.30pm Jonathan Paget of many centuries, the guitar has continued to occupy the space Oct Performed by between both popular and elite. Much of its music is rooted in M T W T F S S Classical Guitar popular song and dance, but developed by its exponents with 10 students, with unusual artistry. A soft instrument, it cajoles us with its intimate special guest artists 7.30pm tones, drawing us into its own interior dream world with its 'six Silver Sands Guitar silver moonbeams'. The Songbook Trio Sessions THE EDITH

WAAPA’s Music Artist students present their fabulous original works along with some creative rearrangements of iconic songs from song masters of our modern times. The performances include solo, duo, trio and band pieces plus full vocal choir In The Field – renditions. Soundscape Recording MUSIC AUDITORIUM FREE EVENT Music Director Vinnie Crea Music Director Following the publication of modern foundational texts such as Performed by Music Artist students Lindsay Vickery Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring and Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Oct Performed by Bomb, the late 1960s saw the ideological resurgence of the Tickets M T W T F S S Composition and environmental movement. Canadian composer R. Murray Oct $25 Full 11 Music Technology Schafer coined the term “soundscape” to describe recordings $20 Concession/Friends students M T W T F S S 7.30pm of natural sounds made in the field and together with Hildegard 4 5 Bookings open Westerkamp and Barry Truax created the Vancouver World Friends 11 Sep 7.30pm Public 18 Sep Soundscape Project, identifying field recordings as artworks in and of themselves. In this concert WAAPA Composition and Music Technology students explore recordings made 'in the field' and projected into the concert hall both with and without acoustic instruments.

22 Songbook Sessions 2017. Photo James Kilian Music 23 Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 11 Sep Love Is In The Air MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep Music Director The nineteenth-century piano miniature is the ultimate love Cinderella Anna Sleptsova letter from the past. Fall in love again with Anna Sleptsova and GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE Oct Performed by the WAAPA piano students in an evening of elation, heartbreak, M T W T F S S Classical Piano yearning and passion. Come hear the music Brahms and Massenet’s sumptuous Cinderella story comes to WAAPA in a witty and darkly 18 students and staff Schumann wrote whilst vying for the same woman. Hear also charming new production by director Thomas de Mallet Burgess. Led by 7.30pm the butterflies-in-the-tummy love-inspired music of Chopin, Oct Alexander Briger, one of Australia’s preeminent conductors and founder of the the Casanova-like music of Liszt and the white-hot passion of M T W T F S S Australia World Orchestra, Cendrillon is an opera that will charm all hearts. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Rachmaninoff. We’d love you to join us.

7.30pm Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess Music Director Alexander Briger Tickets $44 Full Performed by Classical Vocal students and Faith Court Orchestra Classical Music Bookings open $39 Concession/Friends Tickets Friends 11 Sep Accolades MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Flat fee Public 18 Sep Bookings open Friends 11 Sep Music Director Public 18 Sep A night of celebration and achievement as WAAPA’s music Stewart Smith prizewinners showcase their extraordinary skills. Every year, Oct Performed by WAAPA’s top classical musicians vie for a glittering series of M T W T F S S 2018 Music Prize performance prizes and scholarships. Tonight, the recipients of 24 winners these prizes entertain you with their award-winning virtuosity. 7.30pm

Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 11 Sep Mad About Mozart MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep Performed by Have you ever wondered why ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’ is an Geoffrey Lancaster anagram of ‘gorgeous waltz fan, madam’ and ‘warm gazes to a Oct and Paul Wright manful god’? Then come and join us for an exhilarating exercise M T W T F S S in musical time travel – enjoy an evening of Mozart at his 27 finest, as fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster and baroque violinist 3.00pm Paul Wright present four of the composer’s masterworks for fortepiano and violin, played on instruments of Mozart’s time.

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Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 11 Sep Salut d’Amour MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep Music Director Immerse yourself in beauty, vibrato and sensitivity as the Alexandre Da Costa string department invites you to experience some of the most Oct Performed by delightful and sensual music ever written. As soloists and M T W T F S S String students, chamber musicians, they will offer you a magnificent musical 31 String Camarata, feast and bring you to hidden places in your hearts and minds. Indian Ocean 7.30pm Ensemble and Alexandre Da Costa 24 Daniella Sicari as La Fée in RNCM’s production of Cendrillon 2017. Photo by Robert Workman Music 25 Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 11 Sep Spooktacular! MUSIC AUDITORIUM $23 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep FREE Music Director It’s back again! The Symphonic Wind Ensemble brings you a fun, Dale Pointon frivolous and feisty program of music to celebrate Halloween Nov Performed by – and the end of semester! This year’s concert pays special LUNCHTIME M T W T F S S Symphonic Wind tribute to a beloved composer of wind ensemble music, David 1 Ensemble Maslanka. Alongside his epic Symphony No. 4, we’ll hurtle 7.30pm through some well-known and light-hearted pieces by Reed, CONCERTS Ginastera and George Gershwin. Dress up in costume to join in the fun and win some prizes! CLASSICAL TUESDAYS JAZZ AND 1.10PM, MUSIC AUDITORIUM CONTEMPORARY A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests WEDNESDAYS serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears! 1.10PM, GRINDHOUSE, JAZZ STUDIO or From Marathon To Waterloo, Semester 1 THE EDITH WAAPA’s Jazz and Contemporary Music staff 27 February Student Showcase In Order Categorical and students, along with special visiting guests, ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE 6 March Mix’t Trio: Matt Styles, Adam Pinto provide energetic sounds for that afternoon and Paul Tanner pick-me-up. Take a sentimental journey through the songs and times of Gilbert and 13 March Mike Lee (fortepiano) Sullivan, those two venerable writers of cabaret who took centre stage 20 March Postcards from WAAPA staff Nov when Queen Victoria ruled the empire. Over a century later, their witty, M T W T F S S ALFRESCO madly entertaining songs are as beloved as ever. This irreverent and 27 March Piano Showcase 16 17 THURSDAYS 19 20 21 22 delightfully raucous concoction is directed by self-confessed G&S tragic 3 April Oratorio Chorus Stuart Maunder. Enjoy ballads, songs and snatches from the Savoy operas. 24 April Student Chamber Music 12.30PM, GRINDHOUSE or THE EDITH 7.30pm This jaunty tour showcases the most loved songs from The Gondoliers, HMS 1 May Defying Gravity A mix of laid-back, entertaining outdoor Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Matinee 15 May Warana Prize Semi Final concerts played by WAAPA’s Jazz and Sat 17 Nov, 2.00pm Contemporary Music students. Director Stuart Maunder 22 May Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music Director Stewart Smith Tickets 29 May Eneksis Vocal Ensemble $41 Full Performed by Classical Vocal students $35 Concession/Friends Semester 2 Bookings open GRADUATION Friends 11 Sep 31 July Michael Howell (flute) and Public 18 Sep RECITALS Philip Everall (clarinet) Graduation recitals are the highlight of a music 7 August Royal Over-Seas League Bach and Art student’s studies and bring WAAPA’s 2018 music Song Competitions calendar to a thrilling conclusion. After years of 14 August Historical Piano Showcase hard practice and performance, the standard of 21 August Classical Guitar Showcase these recitals is exceptional. 28 August WAAPA Young Performer Jazz and Contemporary Music recitals will take place at The Ellington Jazz Club in Northbridge of the Year Competition throughout October and November. 11 September Defying Gravity Classical Instrumental and Classical Vocal recitals 18 September Royal Over-Seas League Chamber will take place in the Music Auditorium at Music Competition WAAPA. Composition recitals will take place in 2 October Sound Spectrum Redux various WAAPA venues at ECU Mount Lawley throughout November. 16 October Piano Showcase For details and updates check website regulary 23 October Symphonic Wind Ensemble waapa.ecu.edu.au/performances 30 October Eneksis Vocal Ensemble 26 A Cup of Tea, An Aspidistra and You 2013. Photo Jon Green 27 Dance

Rise Unleash Verge

Equal Different WA Dance Makers Project

28 Verge 2017. Photo Stephen Heath 29 Rise GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE Verge GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE WAAPA’s talented dancers rise to new artistic heights in neo-classical and What more fitting a title for the final dance season of 2018 Vergethan ? The contemporary dance works created on them by four outstanding choreographers. graduating dance students are poised for big things and after witnessing their May WAAPA welcomes international guest artist Ori Flomin, an independent Nov versatility and energy in this rich and varied season you will know why. From M T W T F S S choreographer, dancer, dance and yoga instructor and Shiatsu therapist based in M T W T F S S Portugual, Filipa Peraltinha brings her expertise as an international dancer, 5 New York City; Melbourne-born Daniel Roberts, who has danced with Singapore 17 choreographer and dance teacher to the Verge program. David Mack, who has Dance Theatre, WA Ballet and Sydney Dance Company; the award-winning dancer 19 20 21 22 23 24* 7 8 9 10 11 danced with London's Rambert Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, the West Jayne Smeulders, who spent 17 years with the West Australian Ballet, the last nine 7.30pm as principal dancer, during which time she also choreographed for the company; 7.30pm Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company, will remount Rafael Bonachela's 2 in and local choreographer Natalie Allen, who danced and toured internationally with *Sat 24 Nov, 6.00pm D Minor. The program is rounded out with a contemporary work choreographed Tickets by WAAPA Dance Lecturer Sue Peacock and a classical ballet, Suite Romantique, $28 Full Sydney Dance Company. These four artists bring their brilliant expertise and fierce Tickets $23 Concession/Friends creativity to WAAPA's first season of dance. $34 Full reimagined by Kim McCarthy. Choreographers $29 Concession/Friends Bookings open Choreographers Rafael Bonachela Friends 3 Apr Ori Flomin Bookings open David Mack Public 10 Apr Daniel Roberts Friends 11 Sep Filipa Peraltinha Jayne Smeulders Public 18 Sep Sue Peacock Natalie Allen Kim McCarthy Performed by Performed by 2nd and 3rd Year 2nd and 3rd Year Dance students Dance students

DOLPHIN THEATRE, Unleash UWA 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley

Tickets The graduating dancers unleash their creativity by Aug $27 Full choreographing their own dance works, performed $22 Concession/Friends by their peers. To round out this student-led season, Sep Composition and Music Technology students compose Bookings open M T W T F S S Friends 24 Jul imaginative soundscapes for these highly original 28 29 30 31 1 Public 31 Jul performances. 7.30pm Choreographers 3rd Year Dance students Matinee Performed by WAAPA Dance students Sat 1 Sep, 2.00pm Music composed by Composition and Music Technology students No evening performance Dance 30 Unleash 2017. Photo Jon Green 31 Research

Tickets Bookings open $28 Full Friends 3 Apr Tickets Bookings open GEOFF GIBBS The Music of Meta Overman $20 Full Friends 24 Jul THEATRE $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Equal Different MUSIC AUDITORIUM $15 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Choreographers Daring, surprising and different: WAAPA's graduate dance Meta Overman’s music has been buried treasure until very recently. Tobiah Booth – company perform exciting new works choreographed by guest Born in Holland, she came to Western Australia in 1947 and produced a May Remmers artists Ori Florin (USA) and Tobiah Booth-Remmers (Australia). Aug ravishing, witty and thought-provoking catalogue, especially of chamber M T W T F S S Ori Flomin The LINK dancers will also perform an original work from Xiao music. Performer scholars Jeanelle Carrigan and David Wickham present 23 24 25 26 Xiao Xiang Rong Xiang Rong (China) with dance students from Beijing Normal Sep performances of piano music, duo sonatas and songs in a fascinating M T W T F S S 7.30pm Performed by University, as part of an ongoing cultural exchange program. portrait of this important artist. LINK Dance 31 1 Matinee Company Music Directors Jeanelle Carrigan and David Wickham 7.30pm Sat 26 May, 2.00pm Performed by Jeanelle Carrigan, David Wickham and friends No evening performance

WA Dance Postgraduate Research Showcase STATE THEATRE CENTRE, Studio Underground MUSIC AUDITORIUM Makers Project 174-176 William St, Perth WAAPA has a thriving postgraduate research program covering a broad range of LINK Dance Company join Co3 Australia in their WA Dance Makers Project presented in the MoveMe performing arts disciplines, including: interactive digital music systems, performance Festival 2018. A triple bill of new dance works gives audiences a taste of the breadth of choreographic Sep practices on historic piano, new directions in jazz, physiological analysis of talent from Western Australia. This industry engagement placement positions LINK Dance Company at the M T W T F S S human movement, theatre-making, arts education and much more. The WAAPA forefront of learning, partnering emerging dancers with the elite professional dancers of Co3 Australia. 10 Postgraduate Research Showcase offers a rare opportunity for audiences to be dazzled and intrigued by arts projects in their nascent stages, to view the ideas that Performed by LINK Dance Company and Co3 Australia 6.30pm will transform the future of arts practice. Expect the unexpected and enjoy the ride.

Tickets FREE EVENT Sep Adult: $40 Concession: $30 M T W T F S S Child: $20 12 13 14 15 16* Student: $18 Musicological Society Of Australia 2018 National Conference Groups (6+): $30 7.30pm ECU, Mount Lawley campus Book through *Sun 16 Sep, 5.00pm Perth Theatre Trust: tickets.ptt.wa.gov.au The peak annual musicological conference in Australia, the 2018 MSA Conference Matinee welcomes papers on any aspect of music research, but especially those addressing Thu 13, Fri 14 Sep, 12.00pm Dec the theme 'Through the Looking Glass'. Like the strange world Alice discovered in Sat 15 Sep, 2.00pm M T W T F S S the famous novel by Lewis Carol, music holds up a mirror to society. But like the 6 7 8 9 various types of glass, music (or musicology) can reflect, colour, or distort meaning. Sometimes, though as we look through a glass, something truly magical is revealed. Hosted by WAAPA and the WA Chapter of MSA FREE EVENT The call for papers and registrations is now online: www.msa.org.au

DANCE 32 Twin Share 2017. Photo Jon Green 2017 Research Showcase. Photo Geogia Sassenfeld 33 Acting

Atlas The Crucible A Streetcar The Seagull Named Desire The Importance Two Gentlemen Of Verona Of Being Earnest Stuff Happens Ajax In Afghanistan Bullies A Midsummer Night's Dream

34 A Dream Play 2017. Photo Jon Green 35 TRICYCLE THEATRE Bookings open The Importance Of Tickets Bookings open Mount Lawley Senior Tickets Friends 6 Feb ROUNDHOUSE $35 Full Friends 6 Feb Atlas High School $20 Flat fee Public 13 Feb Being Earnest THEATRE $29 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Devised by Atlas is a devised movement theatre work inspired by Jeanette Written by Oscar Wilde’s most elegant comic masterpiece is brought Sam Chester Winterson's book Weight. The Greek myth – in which Altas is Oscar Wilde vividly to life by visiting British director Dan Bird. Dashing men- Mar and 2nd Year condemned to hold up the sky for eternity – is inventively re- May Directed by about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Acting students imagined for our contemporary times through physically-driven Dan Bird fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are 16 17 4 5 Directed by performance that explores what we carry from family, culture, Performed by complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both 19 20 21 22 7 8* 9 10 Sam Chester in love, across borders and boundaries. 3rd Year men to cover their on-the-sly activities – not to mention the 7.30pm Performed by 7.30pm Acting students disapproval of Gwendolen’s mother, the formidable Lady 2nd Year Bracknell. Dan Bird is Artistic Director of UK youth theatre Acting students Matinee Sat 5 May, 2.00pm company Bad Physics, who specialise in staging classic plays in *Post-show discussion on unconventional and dynamic ways – so expect an unexpected Tue 8 May Earnest!

Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open GEOFF GIBBS $38 Full Friends 6 Feb ENRIGHT $28 Full Friends 3 Apr The Crucible THEATRE $32 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Ajax In Afghanistan STUDIO $23 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Written by Matt Edgerton, Artistic Director of Barking Gecko Theatre Written by This epic drama of heroism, love and homeland from Olivier Arthur Miller Company, returns to his alma mater to direct this intense Timberlake Award-winning British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker Mar Directed by and timeless work by one of America’s greatest playwrights. Jun Wertenbaker takes Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Ajax and fuses it with material M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Matt Edgerton In a small tight-knit community, personal grievances collide Directed by developed from interviews with current and former servicemen 16 17 15 16 Performed by with lust and superstition, fuelling widespread hysteria. Bagryana Popov and women. Torn between army politics and the love of his 19 20* 21 22 18 19 20 21 3rd Year Arthur Miller’s timeless parable attacks the evils of mindless Performed by soldiers on the front line of war, a legendary leader begins to 7.30pm Acting students persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. At its 7.30pm 2nd Year spiral out of control. This incisive, powerful drama is directed by Acting students Matinee heart lies one man’s fight to retain his identity. Inspired by the Melbourne-based Bagryana Popov. Sat 17 Mar, 2.00pm 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts,The Crucible remains *Post-show discussion on a powerfully relevant commentary on the struggle of individual Tue 20 Mar conscience in a lethal climate of fear and intolerance.

Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $28 Full Friends 6 Feb A Streetcar ROUNDHOUSE $35 Full Friends 3 Apr The Seagull STUDIO $23 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb Named Desire THEATRE $29 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr Written by On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Written by A classic story of love, lust, passion and power. Blanche Dubois, Anton Chekhov Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing Tennessee Williams raised in the elegant world of a Southern plantation, comes May Directed by the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly Jun Directed by to stay with her younger sister, Stella Kowalski and husband, M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Jane Woollard meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both Emily McLean Stanley in a crowded New Orleans’ apartment. Stanley’s brutish 4 5 15 16 Performed by comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Performed by and tormenting behaviour threatens to shatter Blanche’s fragile 7 8 9 10 18 19* 20 21 2nd Year Visiting guest artist Jane Woollard is a dramaturg, writer, 3rd Year sense of self and to destroy her last chance of happiness. 7.30pm Acting students teacher and one of Melbourne’s most prolific independent 7.30pm Acting students Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama directors, renowned for her use of a physical performance Matinee Critics’ Circle Best Play in 1948,A Streetcar Named Desire is one language based on gestures. Sat 16 Jun, 2.00pm of the most celebrated plays of the 20th century. *Post-show discussion on Tue 19 Jun

36 Acting 37 Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $28 Full Friends 24 Jul Bullies STUDIO $23 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Stuff Happens Written by WAAPA, in conjunction with the Minderoo Foundation, proudly Reg Cribb presents an original commissioned work from one of Australia’s ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE Oct Directed by most accomplished playwrights, Reg Cribb. The prolific WA- M T W T F S S On April 11, 2003, while Baghdad was being pillaged Andrew Lewis born NIDA graduate has a string of literary awards to his name, 12 13 in the aftermath of invasion, the American Secretary Performed by including the prestigious Patrick White Playwrights' Award. His 15 16 17* 18 of Defense held a press conference at which he 2nd Year plays Last Cab to Darwin and The Return (renamed Last Train said, “Stuff happens… and it’s untidy, and freedom’s 7.30pm Acting students to Freo) were both adapted as feature films. The freshly-minted untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes Matinee Bullies promises to be another playwriting gem from this and commit crimes and do bad things.” David Hare Sat 13 Oct, 2.00pm distinctive Australian voice. takes Rumsfeld’s comments as the starting point *Post-show discussion on for his odyssey into the heart of the reasons for the Wed 17 Oct invasion of Iraq. Transcripts from articles and press conferences are fused with real dialogue collected Tickets Bookings open in personal interviews. WAAPA is excited to welcome A Midsummer $35 Full Friends 24 Jul Gregg T. Daniel from the USC School of Dramatic Arts Night’s Dream THE EDITH $29 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul as guest director for this season. Written by When two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a feuding pair of Written by David Hare William supernatural sprites, a love potion gone awry and some well- Directed by Gregg T. Daniel Oct Shakespeare meaning Mechanicals hoping that their 'play is preferred' – all Performed by 3rd Year Acting students M T W T F S S Directed by come together in an enchanted moonlit forest, the result is a 12 13 Stefanos Rassios delightful mix of merriment and magic. The Edith Spiegeltent 15 16* 17 18 Performed by provides a perfect venue for this most extraordinary of Aug 7.30pm 3rd Year Shakespeare's plays. M T W T F S S Tickets Acting students $35 Full 24 25 Matinee $29 Concession/Friends 27 28* 29 30 Sat 13 Oct, 2.00pm *Post-show discussion on Bookings open Tue 16 Oct 7.30pm Friends 3 Apr Acting Public 10 Apr

Matinee Films Sat 25 Aug, 2.00pm LUNA CINEMAS, LEEDERVILLE *Post-show discussion Uncharted Territory on Tue 28 Aug ECU's, WA Screen Academy, WAAPA and leading screen industry guests take to the red carpet for the Gala Screening of The Academy Films - a Sep program of short films exploring the theme, Uncharted Territory. The M T W T F S S films are created by the 2018 Screen Academy class of producers, writers, 27 The Blind Giant is Dancing 2017. Photo Jon Green directors, cinematographers, sound designers and editors. The Academy 6.30pm Films feature WAAPA's 3rd Year Acting students on screen as well as Tickets WAAPA music composers, costume designers and sound students. The $25 Full Gala event also includes the presentation of the esteemed Channel 9 Two Gentlemen Tickets Bookings open $20 Concession/Friends ENRIGHT $29 Full Friends 3 Apr Bookings online Awards for excellence. The WA Screen Academy is proudly sponsored by Of Verona STUDIO $24 Concession/Friends Public 10 Apr eventbrite.com.au the Nine Network. Bookings open Written by Loyalty versus love. Valentine and Proteus, two young Friends 24 Jul William gentlemen from small town Verona, take their gap year in the Public 31 Jul Aug Shakespeare big city of Milan. Friendships and relationships are tested when M T W T F S S Directed by they both fall in love with the same girl. Temptation, betrayal, 24 25 Gerrard McArthur desire, deceit... how far would you go to get what you want? 27 28 29 30 Performed by 7.30pm 2nd Year Acting students Matinee Sat 25 Aug, 2.00pm 38 39 Performing Arts Aboriginal Performance 2018 Performance ENRIGHT STUDIO WAAPA’s Aboriginal Performance program prepares students in a range of acting and performance disciplines. The one-year course culminates in the public performance of a dramatic work. This year we welcome acclaimed actor, narrator, broadcaster and director Rachael Maza, Artistic Director for the Ilbijerri Theatre Company in Victoria as our guest director. Rachael is a multi-award winning actor whose stage and screen credits Holy Day, The Sapphires and Stingers. Her directing credits include Stolen, Chopped Liver and Yandy for Black Swan. Join us in a celebration of contemporary Indigenous culture as we demonstrate the achievements of the 2018 ensemble.

Director Rachael Maza Performed by Aboriginal Performance students Nov M T W T F S S 16 17 19 20* 21 22 7.30pm *Post-show discussion Tue 20 Nov Tickets $28 Full $23 Concession/Friends Bookings open Friends 11 Sep Public 18 Sep Solo Stage: Alchemy Tilt The House On The Hill The Trial

40 Windmill Baby 2017. Photo Jon Green The Secret Project 2017. Photo Stephen Heath 41 Tickets Solo Stage: Bookings open THE BLUE ROOM THEATRE $28 Full Tickets Friends 3 Apr Aug 53 James St, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge$23 Concession/Friends Alchemy THE EDITH $20 Flat fee Public 10 Apr Tilt Devised and Expect talent and daring in this program of six self-devised pieces created Sep “… the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you Program 1 performed by were 'sure' of finding shirts" – Frida Kahlo on Surrealism and performed by WAAPA’s graduating Performance Making students at the 2nd Year popular Blue Room Theatre. Powerful performances and impressive stagecraft M T W T F S S May Inspired by the 1924 surrealist movement, WAAPA’S adventurous Program A Performance underpin works that explore the very edges of theatre making, creating an 29 30 31 1 M T W T F S S young theatre-makers will look back on the ideas, imaginings Making students evening of other-worldly theatre that will inspire, provoke and entertain. 7.00pm 9 11 Under the and art generated from this time to create a dynamic program of guidance of thought provoking and original self-devised solos. Devised and performed by Matinee 7.30pm 3rd Year Performance Making students Samantha Chester WAAPA’s magical Spiegeltent, The Edith, provides the perfect Sat 1 Sep, 2.00pm Program B setting for their experiments. The season promises to be a rich Under the guidance of M T W T F S S alchemy of ideas and theatrical forms, from autobiographical Frances Barbe 10 12 storytelling to highly visual and physical work. Tickets Sep $25 Full Program 2 7.00pm $21 Concession/Friends M T W T F S S Bookings open 5 6 7 8 19 Jul Tel: 9227 7005 7.00pm Online: blueroom.org.au Bookings open or in person 9.00am - 5.00pm. Matinee The House FREMANTLE ARTS Tickets Wednesday 1 Aug CENTRE $28 Full Tickets fac.org.au Sat 8 Sep, 2.00pm On The Hill 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle $23 Concession/Friends or 9432 9555 Directed by An original, bespoke work created in response to this unique Nona Shepphard building and its rich history. Audiences will be guided through a Oct Devised and unique, immersive experience at this iconic site. The House on M T W T F S S performed by 10 11 12 13 the Hill includes a unique sound design, strong image creation, 2nd Year movement and historical and verbatim text interwoven with new 7.30pm Performance writing. WAAPA is thrilled to have guest director Nona Shepphard Making students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London guiding the students in this production. Nona is an internationally acclaimed director and playwright, at RADA she directs shows and projects, runs the Acting Shakespeare course and is Artistic Director of RADA Enterprises.

SPARE PARTS Bookings open PUPPET THEATRE Tickets Tickets sppt.asn.au The Trial 1 Short St, Fremantle $22 + $3.95 booking fee or 9335 5044 Directed by Someone must have been spreading lies about Josef K… Michael Barlow Adapted from Franz Kafka’s darkly humorous novel about the Nov Devised and M T W T F S S forces that control our freedom, and eerily prescient of our performed by 2 3 surveillance society, The Trial is puppetry without rules. 3rd Year 7.30pm Performance Performed by final year Performance Making students under the Making students guidance of Spare Parts’ Associate Director Michael Barlow, this is contemporary puppet theatre at its freshest and most exciting.

Performing Arts 42 Tilt 2017. Photo Stephen Heath 43 Music Theatre

In The Heights The Arabian Nights Carousel Sunday In The Park With George Rock Of Ages

44 42nd Street 2017. Photo Stephen Heath 45 Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $25 Full Friends 6 Feb In The Heights The Arabian Nights STUDIO $20 Concession/Friends Public 13 Feb ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE Written by Brought brilliantly to life on stage, the ages-old Middle Eastern Dominic Cooke From the award-winning composer and lyricist folk tale The Arabian Nights, or A Thousand and One Nights, is Mar Director the ultimate homage to the power of storytelling. After finding of the hot-ticket musical Hamilton comes this M T W T F S S Adam Mitchell his wife is unfaithful, King Shahryar murders her and swears to sassy, sexy sensation of a show brimming Mar 16 17 Performed by marry a different woman every night before each is killed the with hip-hop, salsa and soul music. Over the M T W T F S S 19 20 21 22 2nd Year course of three days in the New York City Latino 17 next morning to prevent further betrayal. That is, until clever Music Theatre neighbourhood of Washington Heights, a young 7.30pm Scheherezade marries the King and begins telling a wondrous 19 20 21 22 23 24 students store owner watches the joys and heartbreaks tale that prevents her execution and slowly heals Shahryar’s of his tight-knit community as they pass through 7.30pm broken heart. his grocery store. Winner of 4 Tony and 3 Olivier Matinee Awards, including Best Musical. Sat 24 Mar, 2.00pm

Books by Quiara Alegría Hudes Tickets Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda $49 Full Tickets Bookings open Director Crispin Taylor $43 Concession/Friends Sunday In The Park GEOFF GIBBS $49 Full Friends 24 Jul Music Director Craig Dalton With George THEATRE $43 Concession/Friends Public 31 Jul Choreographer Jody Bickle Bookings open Performed by 3rd Year Music Theatre students Friends 6 Feb Music and Lyrics by This award-winning musical from two of the greatest music Public 13 Feb Stephen Sondheim theatre artists of the modern era merges past and present Aug Book by into a poignant and sophisticated exploration of what it takes, James Lapine and what it costs, to be an artist. French post-Impressionist Sep Director painter Georges Seurat is completing his pointillist work, ‘A M T W T F S S Tyran Parke Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’. George is 25 Music Director an obsessive painter who risks it all, including his relationship 27 28 29 30 31 1 David King with his lover Dot, to finish his latest masterpiece. A century 7.30pm Performed by later, George’s great-grandson is working as an artist. In search 3rd Year of inspiration, he soon discovers that the answer to his future is Matinee Music Theatre Sat 1 Sep, 2.00pm painted clearly in his past. students

Tickets Bookings open ROUNDHOUSE $43 Full Friends 11 Sep Rock of Ages THEATRE $37 Concession/Friends Public 18 Sep

Music and Lyrics by Get your double denim out and your bouffant hair on! This Various jukebox musical spins classic songs of the 1980s into a high- Oct Book by energy evening of raunchy rock’n’roll karaoke comedy. Rock M T W T F S S Chris D’Arienzo of Ages is a love story between small-town girl Sherrie, trying 13 to make it as an actress in LA and naive-but-cute Drew, who 15 16 17 18 19 20 Director Crispin Taylor just wants to be a rock star. Their paths cross in the fictional 7.30pm Music Director Bourbon Bar on Sunset Strip, where bands play hard and party Matinee Craig Dalton harder. Get down to hits from Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benetar, Sat 20 Oct, 2.00pm Choreographer Poison, Whitesnake and Twisted Sister - the siren call of those Christabel Ellis screaming guitars and sing-along choruses will be impossible to Performed by resist. 2nd Year Music Theatre students Music Theatre 46 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson 2017. Photo Jon Green 47 FRIENDS Join the Friends of the Academy today and enjoy exclusive Friends events, advance bookings, no booking fees at WAAPA venues, OF THE meet the stars of tomorrow and best of all, provide invaluable support to WAAPA’s amazing students. To join or for more information visit: friendsoftheacademy.org.au ACADEMY or phone (08) 9370 6895 REGAL THEATRE 474 Hay St, Subiaco 2018 FRIENDS EVENTS Music by Voted the best musical of the 20th century by Richard Rodgers Time Magazine, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Crucible [Acting] Saturday 17 March Geoff Gibbs Theatre Jun Lyrics by much-loved Carousel boasts a timeless score, M T W T F S S Oscar Hammerstein II including the musical gems If I Loved You, June Is Havana Nights with the Rodriguez Brothers [Jazz] Friday 13 April Geoff Gibbs Theatre 16 Director Bustin’ Out All Over and the iconic You’ll Never 19 20 21 22 23 Jason Langley Walk Alone. Set in an isolated New England Defying Gravity [Percussion] Friday 4 May Music Auditorium Music Director fishing village,Carousel follows the tragic 7.30pm David King romance between a troubled carnival worker A Streetcar Named Desire [Acting] Saturday 16 June (matinee) Roundhouse Theatre Choreographer and the young woman who gives up everything Matinee Sunday in the Park with George [Music Theatre] Friday 31 August Geoff Gibbs Theatre Cameron Mitchell for him. Don’t miss this epic story of passion, Sat 16 and Lighting Designer loss and redemption. Sat 23 Jun, 2.00pm Aboriginal Performance Saturday 17 November Enright Studio Trudy Dalgleish . Set Designer Tickets “Nothing less than a masterpiece.” After each performance please join us for a complimentary supper and Q & A session with the cast Tyler Hill $75 Full – The New York Times $65 Concession/Friends Costume Designer Eiilish Campbell Bookings open Performed by On sale now 2nd and 3rd Year APPLICATION FORM through Ticketek Music Theatre students Tel: 1300 795 012 and WAAPA Music PERSONAL DETAILS TICK MEMBERSHIP TYPE ticketek.com.au students Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other Student/Concession $34 Senior $45 Name Single $62 Postal Address Couple $84 Family $95

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