WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS

2017 PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

1 ABORIGINAL PERFORMANCE ACTING ARTS MANAGEMENT CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSITION & MUSIC TECHNOLOGY CONTEMPORARY MUSIC WELCOME COSTUME Edith Cowan University is now Come and see for yourself why DANCE the proud owner of its very WAAPA is considered one of the own Spiegeltent, the Edith, so I world’s leading performing arts DESIGN am particularly looking forward academies. JAZZ to seeing some shows in this WAAPA attracts an exciting array wonderfully atmospheric setting. of guest artists to collaborate I am also excited by the gift of the with our students to produce an Stewart Symonds Collection of 140 amazing variety of concerts historically significant pianos which and shows. includes the first piano to arrive You will be inspired by the on Australian shores. A ravishing exceptional talents and infectious series of concerts will celebrate enthusiasm of the performers this fabulous acquisition. and entranced by the imagination There are so many tantalising and skills of the students working performances at WAAPA - I intend behind the scenes. to get to most of them and I hope Invest in the future; buy a ticket to see you there. today.

Professor Steve Chapman CBE Professor Julie Warn AM Vice-Chancellor Dean

OPEN DAY SUNDAY 13 AUGUST, 10.00AM – 3.00PM LIGHTING MUSIC THEATRE The WAAPA / ECU Open Day is a perfect opportunity to explore behind the scenes. Come and see students in action in rehearsals, OPERA classes and short concerts. Speak with staff members about PERFORMING ARTS course options and find out about auditions. See the design PROPS & SCENERY work, costumes and props on display. Check out the superbly equipped lighting and sound studios, the music technology labs RESEARCH and the scenery construction workshops. Explore the campus, SCREEN PERFORMANCE take a backstage tour and attend information sessions. A detailed SOUND program of events will be posted on the WAAPA website waapa.ecu.edu.au STAGE MANAGEMENT 2 3 PROGRAM INDEX MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER 4 5 4-6 1-3 3 1 & 2 2-6 1 Geoffrey Lancaster in 8 Hits Plus Kaboom! Life is a Cabaret! Unleash Sound Spectrum Spring Sonatas 11 13 16 On Safari 18 31 Recital 2017.2 25 8 23 6 & & 5-11 13 14 12 1 2 2 & 3 Transcendental The Diary of The Songbook The Bach Connection Chicago & 16 8 47 4 5 Spooktacular! Bebop! Voices Anne Frank Sessions Starstruck 25 9 11 36 16 23 & 17 1-9 9-11 17-23 6 8 5-11 16-22 The New Standard Tilt 5 Im Spiegel Megan Washington A Dream Play Present Laughter 18 43 The Blind Giant is 12 37 37 Human/Machine 32 Dancing Interaction 36 18 2 24 7 6-12 16-22 Karin Schaupp and Keys in the City 17-23 Sonic Wonderment Rise Petits Fours Claire Edwardes 19 Windmill Baby 17-23 30 37 18 5-7 Revisited 40 The Tempest 11 Inventories of Bodies in 36 2 Movement 8-12 17-24 24 Dark Rain 32 18-25 20 Sound Spectrum 42nd Street Andrey Gugnin 20 Verge 17-23 Battle and Victory 2017.1 48 Piano Recital 31 Lord of the Flies 12 13 18 11 47 6 18 Kuniko Kato: Total Rosemary and Thyme: 10 The English Guitar 22 From Opera 25 Percussion 25 18 Jane Austen's Video Killed the Radio Active (Albany) 20 Come and Sing with With Love 16 Drawing Room Radio Star 14 21 Mary King 8 & 13-19 9 8 9 The Threepenny 25-31 Faith Court Orchestra: 10-13 Opera 27 Solo Stage: Love and Information The Warana Prize 39 18-25 Fazioli Fascination 38 20 Heathers: The Musical Moments of Being 12 42 46 25-31 & 13-19 14 16 As You Like It 11 JULY Momentum Radio Active 39 21 Guitar Brazilliance 38 21 Mad About Coward 14 9 11-16 WAAPA International Art 26-31 14-16 14-21 11 & 12 Chicago Hit Parade: Defying Bloody Bloody 23 Kneebody Song Academy 47 Mad, Bad and 13 17 Gravity Turns 30! Andrew Jackson 22 47 Dangerous to Know 27 9 13 15 Massed Saxophone Art Song Academy 20 16-21 Radio Active Sessions Project The Impresario and Les 14 Participant Showcase 19 One O'Clock Jump 25 17 23 Mamelles De Tirésias WAAPA in the Park 26 10 19-21 29-31 Alexandre Da Costa 16 Unleash 21 Plays Beethoven Magic Mozart & 19 25 Art Song Academy 31 Piano Homages Steve Reich Under 15 Tchaikovsky Gala Concert 17 23 24 the Stars 30 & 31 11 24-27 Tilt Twin Share 43 23 25 32 Postgraduate & Classical Music Accolades Research Showcase 25 25 33 Lincolnshire Posy Aboriginal Performance 14 TBA! Acting 28 The Secret Project & Come to the Edge 42 Dance 25 26 39 Films Sleep Music 42 Music Theatre 26 Performing Arts Winter Serenades Research 16 4 PROGRAM INDEX 5 MUSIC CLASSICAL VOICE & OPERA CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORICAL PIANO SERIES WAAPA INTERNATIONAL ART SONG ACADEMY COME AND SING WITH MARY KING STEVE REICH UNDER THE STARS GEOFFREY LANCASTER IN RECITAL MAD ABOUT COWARD BATTLE AND VICTORY JANE AUSTEN'S DRAWING ROOM ART SONG ACADEMY MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW FAZIOLI FASCINATION THE BACH CONNECTION PARTICIPANT SHOWCASE TRANSCENDENTAL VOICES KABOOM! GALA CONCERT LIFE IS A CABARET! GUITAR BRAZILLIANCE JAZZ FROM OPERA WITH LOVE LINCOLNSHIRE POSY BEBOP! SPECIAL EVENTS THE IMPRESARIO AND ALEXANDRE DA COSTA PLAYS BEETHOVEN MEGAN WASHINGTON WAAPA IN THE PARK LES MAMELLES DE TIRÉSIAS WINTER SERENADES KNEEBODY KEYS IN THE CITY ON SAFARI THE NEW STANDARD KARIN SCHAUPP AND CLAIRE EDWARDES COMPOSITION & MUSIC ONE O'CLOCK JUMP TECHNOLOGY ANDREY GUGNIN PIANO RECITAL MASSED SAXOPHONE PROJECT 8 HITS PLUS DARK RAIN SONIC WONDERMENT REVISITED KUNIKO KATO: TOTAL PERCUSSION SOUND SPECTRUM 2017.1 FAITH COURT ORCHESTRA: THE WARANA PRIZE VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR HIT PARADE: DEFYING GRAVITY TURNS 30! SOUND SPECTRUM 2017.2 MAGIC MOZART & TCHAIKOVSKY HUMAN/MACHINE INTERACTION PIANO HOMAGES ROSEMARY AND THYME: THE ENGLISH GUITAR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSICAL ACCOLADES RADIO ACTIVE SESSIONS SPRING SONATAS THE SONGBOOK SESSIONS SPOOKTACULAR! RADIO ACTIVE STARSTRUCK

Rai Thistlethwayte in Concert 2015 6 7 Tickets Bookings open $27 Full Friends 7 February HISTORICAL PIANO SERIES BEBOP! THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Music Director MARCH From the 1940s to the mid '50s, the bebop style shaped a The Stewart Symonds Keyboard Instrument Collection represents an unprecedented and historic M T W T F S S Jamie Oehlers generation. Jazz artists like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie bequest to Edith Cowan University. The Collection, painstakingly and intelligently assembled by 16 Performed by and Thelonious Monk were the vanguard during this time, Australian collector Stewart Symonds, is widely recognised as one of the most significant in the Jazz students creating this high paced and energetic music that reflected world and is of immense cultural value. Now preserved for posterity at Edith Cowan University, the 7.30pm the turmoil of the war times. The beboppers were known for Collection comprises some 140 instruments – including the first piano to arrive on Australian shores. their incredible technical abilities, their slightly kooky dress In conjunction with the world’s most esteemed musical instrument restorers, Edith Cowan University is sense and for living on the edge, which is all represented bringing the Collection's instruments into playing order. Voices silenced by time will be brought to life through this incredible music. and will once again be heard by lovers of music.

Tickets (Audience) MARCH Bookings open COME AND SING $27 Full Friends 7 February GEOFFREY LANCASTER IN RECITAL M T W T F S S THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February MUSIC AUDITORIUM 4 WITH MARY KING Music Director MARCH Don’t miss this opportunity to become a professional singer Acclaimed fortepianist and Professor of Music Geoffrey Lancaster 3.00pm Mary King for a day! Singers, aspiring singers and bathroom singers are will perform some of the most perfectly conceived, imaginative and M T W T F S S Performed by invited to our wonderful Spiegeltent to sing choruses from the innovative sonatas by Haydn and Beethoven. This recital sees the debut Tickets 18 $27 Full You! greatest musical theatre shows under the inspired direction of WAAPA’s new fortepiano, made by the renowned European master- $22 Concession/Friends 7.30pm of Mary King (UK). Places are limited; refer to website from maker Paul McNulty. 1 February for participation fees and registration. Participants Bookings open will receive a digital copy of the music in preparation for a day Performed by Geoffrey Lancaster Friends 7 February Public 14 February of workshops and rehearsals which will culminate in a joyous public concert in the evening for your friends, family and all lovers of music theatre. APRIL JANE AUSTEN’S DRAWING ROOM M T W T F S S MUSIC AUDITORIUM 22 Tickets Bookings open MAD ABOUT MUSIC $27 Full Friends 7 February 3.00pm In the fashionable Georgian age of Jane Austen’s romance novels, square AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February pianos were the mainstay of domestic music-making. The square piano, which COWARD Tickets Conceived by features prominently in the Stewart Symonds Collection, was an English $27 Full MARCH International director and Noel Coward tragic Stuart Maunder invention that allowed compact affordable pianos to fill the drawing rooms of $22 Concession/Friends M T W T F S S Stuart Maunder takes to the stage accompanied in fine form by the one and thousands of homes. English music-making of this era includes a surprisingly 21 Performed by only Stewart Smith, Associate Dean of Music. Together they Bookings open rich repertoire of songs for piano and guitar. Stuart Maunder will entertain you with an elegant, moving and very funny Friends 7 February 7.30pm exploration of all things Coward.I’ll See You Again and The Bar Music Directors Public 14 February (voice) Stewart Smith and Jonathan Paget on the Piccola Marina will delight and appal alongside classics Performed by Stewart Smith (Clementi Square Piano), Stewart Smith (piano) like Don’t Put Your Daughter on The Stage Mrs Worthington, Jonathan Paget (René Lacote guitar) and WAAPA Music students Mad Dogs and Englishmen... and of course witticisms galore.

AUGUST THE BACH CONNECTION M T W T F S S MAD, BAD AND Tickets Bookings open MUSIC AUDITORIUM 12 DANGEROUS TO MUSIC $27 Full Friends 7 February AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Geoffrey Lancaster and Stewart Smith revel in the fantastical terrain of 3.00pm KNOW eighteenth-century masterpieces for two fortepianos. The musical fare is Music Director What did Ariadne do on Naxos? Was Theseus a cad? Tickets MARCH provided by three members of the circle surrounding JS Bach. WF Bach’s $27 Full M T W T F S S Geoffrey Lancaster These questions- and more - will be answered in an scintillating Concerto in F major, four duets from CPE Bach, and Bach pupil $22 Concession/Friends 23 Performed by evening of musical melodrama featuring music written as Johann Gottfried Müthel’s monumentalDuetto in E flat set the scene for a Classical Vocal, Piano accompaniment for the spoken word. Georg Benda’s late Bookings open transformative musical journey. 7.30pm and Acting students eighteenth-century masterpiece Ariadne auf Naxos, Haydn’s Friends 18 July scintillating cantataArianna a Naxos and Debussy’s exotic Performed by Geoffrey Lancaster and Stewart Smith Public July and staff 25 Epigraphes Antiqueswill inspire us all to court the Muse.

8 MUSIC 9 Tickets $24 Flat fee STEVE REICH FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Tickets from fac.org.au WAAPA IN THE PARK UNDER THE STARS 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle or 9432 9555 Music Director RON STONE PARK, Mount Lawley (opposite WAAPA) MARCH The rapturous music of Steve Reich comes to life under M T W T F S S Tim White the stars as Defying Gravity percussion ensemble performs the legendary Six Marimbas and Music for Pieces of Wood. WAAPA In The Park celebrates ten years of fantastic free family entertainment. 25 Performed by Defying Gravity Master musicians Joshua Webster, Tao Issaro and Pippa Lester The City of Stirling, Edith Cowan University and WAAPA have been presenting 7.00pm Joshua Webster join Defying Gravity to present magical works full of melody, the talented young musicians at Australia’s premier performing arts academy in Tao Issaro rhythm and beauty amidst the trees and gardens of the this beautifully produced concert to the people of Perth since 2007. Gates open 6.00pm Pippa Lester Fremantle Arts Centre. Ancient and modern percussion has Be wowed by the phenomenal Phat Funk Band and WAAPA’s most accomplished never sounded so ravishing! Jazz and Contemporary musicians as they rock, bop and strut their way through an awesome collection of old and new funk, soul, pop and jazz classics.

Performed by Jazz and Contemporary Music students Tickets Bookings open MUSIC $20 Full Friends 7 February AUDITORIUM $11 Concession/Friends Public 14 February MARCH 8 HITS PLUS Music Directors M T W T F S S APRIL Vanessa Tomlinson performs solo percussion works by Lindsay 25 M T W T F S S Vanessa Tomlinson Vickery, Kate Neal, Vanessa Tomlinson and Cat Hope. Plus and Erik Griswold Erik Griswold reunites with WAAPA percussionists to perform 7.00pm 5 Performed by his signature piece A Wolfe in the Mangroves: Concerto for 7.30pm Prepared Piano and Percussion. FREE EVENT Vanessa Tomlinson Erik Griswold Percussion students

ST MARY’S Tickets Bookings open TRANSCENDENTAL CATHEDRAL $31 Full Friends 7 February VOICES 17 Victoria Square, Perth $26 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Music Director APRIL St Mary’s Cathedral will be filled with the majestic sound of M T W T F S S Nicholas Cleobury Western Australia’s finest young singers accompanied by one 6 Performed by of Australia’s leading organists, Stewart Smith. Renowned Classical Vocal English conductor Nicholas Cleobury leads WAAPA’s Classical 7.30pm students with Vocal students in a performance featuring Tippett’sNegro Stewart Smith Spirituals and much more; an evening of choral music to lift (organ) the spirit and inspire the heart.

SONIC Tickets Bookings open WONDERMENT MUSIC $20 Full Friends 7 February REVISITED AUDITORIUM $11 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Music Directors APRIL Clocked Out (Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold) teams M T W T F S S Vanessa Tomlinson up with GreyWing Ensemble (Lindsay Vickery, Catherine 7 and Erik Griswold Ashley and Jameson Feakes) and the WAAPA Composers' Performed by Orchestra to perform colourful new works for large ensemble 7.30pm Clocked Out and electronics. Also featuring the premiere of an “exquisite GreyWing Ensemble corpse” collaborative work by Clocked Out and WAAPA WAAPA Composers’ composition students. Music by Tomlinson, Griswold, Vickery, Orchestra Carey, Myburgh and Maujean. WAAPA in the Park 2016 10 MUSIC 11 Tickets Bookings open MUSIC $27 Full Friends 4 April MEGAN WASHINGTON KABOOM! AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE Music Director MAY WA’s sensational Kaboom Percussion joins Defying Gravity M T W T F S S Tim White for a joy-filled evening of percussive entertainment. Mallets Australian songstress Megan Washington has taken 4 5 6 Performed by dance, flash and glow in the dark as Kaboom creates musical the music world by storm over the last decade. Known Defying Gravity magic from colour and light. Defying Gravity joins the party for her quirky lyrics and instantly appealing songs, she 7.30pm Kaboom Percussion with Roger Smalley’s Ceremony I, Cameron Sinclair’s groovy has forged a unique identity and embedded herself Funk Loops, Anders Koppel’s virtuosic Toccata, and Steve in the fabric of the Australian music scene. Many are Matinee Reich’s famous Music for Pieces of Wood. A performance unaware that she started her musical life as a jazz artist, Sat 6 May, 2.00pm overflowing with energy, joy and exhilaration. collaborating with Australian artists like Paul Grabowsky, Sean Foran and Jamie Oehlers. For these performances with the WAAPA Jazz students she will be revisiting her roots, performing well known classics, interpretations SOUND SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE of the jazz repertoire, as well as some of her original ECU Mount Lawley FREE EVENT material. SPECTRUM 2017.1 Music Director MAY A festival of new sounds as WAAPA’s Composition and Music Music Directors Jamie Oehlers and Jeremy Greig M T W T F S S Lindsay Vickery Technology students and staff present over 10 hours of Performed by Megan Washington and Jazz students 8 9 10 11 12 Performed by original music over five nights at the Spectrum Project Space. Composition and Hear original and experimental acoustic and electronic music 7.30pm Music Technology performances, installations, audio-visual works, DJ artists, and APRIL Tickets students and staff world premieres from Aletheia, Certifiable, Ecuatorial 1 and 3, M T W T F S S $36 Full $28 Concession/Friends Shock Of The New and more. 6 8 Bookings open 7.30pm Friends 7 February Public 14 February Tickets Bookings open KNEEBODY $36 Full Friends 4 April $28 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Genre-defying American group Kneebody pairs explosive rock energy with high-level nuanced chamber ensemble MAY MAY playing in highly wrought compositions balanced with M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Tickets Bookings open adventurous no-holds-barred improvising. Kneebody is 11 12 BATTLE AND $27 Full Friends 7 February MUSIC keyboardist Adam Benjamin, trumpeter Shane Endsley, AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February VICTORY electric bassist Kaveh Rastegar, saxophonist Ben Wendel 7.30pm 7.30pm Music Directors and drummer Nate Wood. The band has no leader or APRIL Whether to stir the passion and nationalistic fervour of John Inverarity Music Judith Cottier Theatre rather, each member is the leader; they’ve developed M T W T F S S Philip Everall and troops going to war or to celebrate the victory of an army, and Drama Centre Perth College their own musical language, inventing a unique cueing 20 Brent Grapes the emotion of battle has inspired many musical works. This Hale School 31 Lawley Crescent Performed by concert will feature the WAAPA Wind and Brass Ensemble system that allows them each to change the tempo, key, Unwin Avenue Mount Lawley 7.30pm Wind and Brass performing works including Samuel Scheidt’s glorious style, and more in an instant. Wembley Downs Ensemble quintet Galliard Battaglia and an arrangement of Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory. Music Director Chris Tarr Performed by Kneebody with Jazz students

Tickets Bookings open FAZIOLI MUSIC $27 Full Friends 7 February FASCINATION AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Music Director APRIL The incredible gift to WAAPA of a Fazioli concert grand piano M T W T F S S Anna Sleptsova by the McCusker Foundation has proven to be a turning point 27 Performed by in the education of our keyboard students. Not only do Paulo Classical Piano Fazioli’s instruments feature the best of Italian engineering 7.30pm students and staff and design, their beauty of tone and infinite variety of colour make these pianos extra special to players and audiences alike. Head of Piano, Anna Sleptsova, curates a special program of piano masterworks covering the whole gamut of the keyboard repertoire. 12 MUSIC13 Alexandre Da Costa Plays Tchaikovsky 2015 Bookings open VIDEO KILLED THE MUSIC Tickets Friends 4 April RADIO STAR AUDITORIUM $11 Flat fee Public 11 April Music Director MAY Since video became commercially available in the 1970s, M T W T F S S Lindsay Vickery music and images have become linked together in popular 10 Performed by culture. WAAPA Composition and Music Technology lets loose Composition and the YouTube generation to create new works responding to 7.30pm Music Technology the visual in music. students

Tickets Bookings open GUITAR MUSIC $27 Full Friends 4 April BRAZILLIANCE AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Music Director MAY Join us for a fiesta of Latin American guitar music from M T W T F S S Jonathan Paget Villa-Lobos to Bellinati and beyond, performed by WAAPA 11 Performed by guitar students and guest artists the SilverSands Guitar Trio Classical Guitar (Jonathan Paget, Craig Lake, and Nathan Fischer). The guitar 7.30pm students and staff artistry of South America dances to the tune of the choros, the samba, the waltz and the tango!

ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE Tickets Bookings open ALEXANDRE DA COSTA RADIO ACTIVE CENTRE FOR $27 Full Friends 4 April SESSIONS PERFORMING ARTS $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April PLAYS BEETHOVEN Music Directors From pop to rock, RnB to soul and funk classics, Radio Active MAY All Saints’ College Centre MAY Legendary violinist Alexandre Da Costa – WAAPA’s Mike Eastman and Sessions showcases the musical talents of the students of M T W T F S S For Performing Arts M T W T F S S brilliant Head of Strings – performs Beethoven’s All Saints’ College Matt Allen All Saints' College, alongside WAAPA Contemporary Music 19 13 majestic Violin Concerto in three extraordinary Ewing Ave, Bull Creek students. This exuberant concert is the thrilling culmination of Performed by and inspiring concerts of orchestral masterworks. 7.30pm 7.30pm an exciting residency run by WAAPA Contemporary Music staff. Students from Da Costa’s Stradivarius violin sings with passion WAAPA and and soars with drama in Beethoven’s most All Saints' College beloved concerto. Da Costa also directs the Faith Court Orchestra in orchestral masterpieces by All Saints’ College Ewing Ave, Bull Creek Richard Wagner and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. MAY Churchlands Concert Hall Don’t miss this astonishing performance! M T W T F S S Churchlands Senior 20 High School Richard Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser 20 Lucca St, Churchlands Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 7.30pm Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto Tickets Bookings open LINCOLNSHIRE MUSIC $27 Full Friends 4 April POSY AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Music Director Alexandre Da Costa MAY Judith Cottier Theatre Music Director MAY Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy is a wind band classic. With Performed by M T W T F S S Perth College Dale Pointon an ear for colour and a great tune, Grainger paints in music M T W T F S S Faith Court Orchestra with soloist Alexandre Da Costa 21 31 Lawley Crescent 25 Performed by the sounds of Edwardian Lincolnshire. Fast forward to the Mount Lawley present day and an evocation of a truly modern soundscape Ben Vanderwal Tickets Bookings open 3.00pm 7.30pm (drums) as in-demand drummer Ben Vanderwal joins the WAAPA wind students in a performance of Jeff Tyzik’s unforgettableRiffs for $36 Full Friends 4 April Symphonic Wind $28 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Ensemble drum kit and wind ensemble. All ticket sales through the WAAPA Box Office 14 MUSIC 15 Tickets Bookings open WINTER MUSIC $27 Full Friends 4 April WAAPA WAAPA AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April SERENADES INTERNATIONAL EDITH COWAN Bookings open waapa.ecu.edu.au/artsong for full details Music Director UNIVERSITY MAY WAAPA’s leading string students parade their skills in a ART SONG ACADEMY Alexandre Da Costa performance of irresistible classics by the great composers Patrons M T W T F S S JULY Accompanist and coach par excellence Dr Graham Johnson 26 Performed by of string repertoire: Sarasate, Kreisler, Paganini, Wieniawski, M T W T F S S Dr Graham Johnson returns to the WAAPA International Art Song Academy to lead String students Auer and Ysaÿe. Alexandre Da Costa joins his students to OBE and Sir Thomas masterclasses on the songs of Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert. 7.30pm perform music that will charm and dazzle. 11 12 13 14 15 16 Alexandre Da Costa Allen CBE This year WAAPA is delighted to welcome internationally Visiting Master renowned tenor Dennis O’Neill CBE, a noted exponent of Teachers the music of Giuseppe Verdi, who lends his expertise in the Dr Graham Johnson performance of Italian songs. O’Neill’s vast knowledge of OBE and Dennis Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and more was gathered on the great Tickets Bookings open O’Neill CBE operatic and concert hall stages of the world. LIFE IS A $31 Full Friends 4 April Singers and pianists are invited to apply to be active CABARET! THE EDITH $26 Concession/Friends Public 11 April participants. Teachers, students and music lovers of all kinds Director are welcome to attend as observers. This year’s Academy JUNE Join WAAPA's Classical Vocal students on a transatlantic Brendan Hanson cabaret journey as they travel from the Weimar Republic to will feature ancillary classes in movement and performance M T W T F S S psychology for participants and observers alike. 1 2 3 Music Director the gin joints of prohibition New York and back again, through David Wickham the compositions of Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Cole Porter To register your interest or for further information visit the 7.30pm WAAPA website Performed by and their contemporaries. A musical cavalcade presented by waapa.ecu.edu.au/artsong a circus troupe of performers showcasing their many talents Classical Vocal Matinee beyond their beautiful voices and exceptional musicianship. Sat 3 June, 2.00pm students WAAPA INTERNATIONAL ART SONG ACADEMY Tickets Bookings open PARTICIPANT MUSIC $27 Full Friends 4 April AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Tickets Bookings open SHOWCASE Music Director THE SONGBOOK $16 Full Friends 4 April JULY Enjoy a fun and relaxed variety evening of songs and $11 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Dennis O’Neill CBE arias performed by the singers and pianists of the WAAPA SESSIONS THE EDITH M T W T F S S Performed by International Art Song Academy. Music Director Don't miss this incredibly talented group of students in the 15 JUNE Art Song participants M T W T F S S Vinnie Crea unique and elegant setting of WAAPA’s newest venue, The 7.30pm 13 14 Performed by Edith. Featuring a combination of exciting original works plus Music Artist some wonderfully reworked classics covering indie, rock, pop, 7.30pm students soul and RnB performed by solos artists, duos and ensembles, these young musicians will rock your world.

WAAPA INTERNATIONAL Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open FROM OPERA $43 Full Friends 4 April GOVERNMENT ART SONG ACADEMY GOVERNMENT $36 Full Friends 4 April $38 Concession/Friends Public 11 April WITH LOVE HOUSE BALLROOM GALA CONCERT HOUSE BALLROOM $28 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Music Director Straight from the Komische Oper Berlin, tenor and WAAPA JUNE Music Director This special gala concert in the beautiful surrounds of David Wickham graduate Alexander Lewis is joined by international soprano JULY M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Dr Graham Johnson Government House Ballroom showcases selected performers 18 Performed by Fiona McAndrew and Michael Lewis, one of Australia’s finest OBE from the Art Song Academy. German Lieder will meet the baritones, in a brilliant performance of some of your favourite 16 Fiona McAndrew Performed by sun-kissed songs of Italy as singers from around Australia 4.00pm operatic moments. Together they will showcase a mix of the Alexander Lewis 4.00pm Art Song participants perform the glorious music of Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert and Michael Lewis greatest arias and ensembles, including the beloved duet from Vincenzo Bellini accompanied by acclaimed English pianist, WAAPA Opera The Pearl Fishers. The concert will conclude with the much- Dr Graham Johnson. Chorus loved ‘Easter Hymn’ from Cavalleria Rusticana performed by the youthful voices of the WAAPA Opera Chorus.

16 MUSIC 17 Tickets Bookings open CHURCHLANDS CONCERT HALL MUSIC $27 Full Friends 18 July MASSED SAXOPHONE Churchlands Senior High School ON SAFARI AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July PROJECT 20 Lucca St, Churchlands Music Directors AUGUST The WAAPA wind and brass students invite you on a musical Philip Everall and M T W T F S S safari like no other! Led by the dream team of Philip Everall The Massed Saxophone Project saw 104 sax players on stage AUGUST Tickets Brent Grapes and Brent Grapes, this special concert features Animal Ditties in 2016. In 2017, we’re going one step further. Featuring 3 M T W T F S S $27 Full Performed by by American composer Anthony Plog, and the hilariously visiting artists from the UK and the USA, WAAPA is proud to 27 $22 Concession/Friends 7.30pm Wind and Brass odd-ball Opus Number Zoo by Luciano Berio. With virtuosity, collaborate with Churchlands Senior High School to bring you Ensemble fun, kaleidescopic colours, zany textures and sublime sounds, the biggest saxophone event WA has ever seen. Be a part of 7.00pm Bookings open what’s not to enjoy? saxophone history! Friends 18 July Public 25 July Music Director Matt Styles Performed by Rob Buckland (UK), George Garzone (USA), Matt Styles Tickets Bookings open and WA’s community of saxophonists THE NEW $27 Full Friends 18 July STANDARD THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Music Director AUGUST Jazz musicians have long been masters of taking popular M T W T F S S Tom O’Halloran music and twisting it on its head – from the swing musicians 17 Performed by and beboppers taking Broadway show tunes and turning them Jazz students into classics, or the modern jazz artists warping the music 7.30pm of pop icons Radiohead, Lennon and McCartney, and Stevie Wonder. Tonight the WAAPA New Standard Ensemble, with WAAPA piano lecturer Tom O’Halloran, will keep you on the edge of your seat with new interpretations of the classics.

KARIN SCHAUPP JUDITH COTTIER Tickets Bookings open AND CLAIRE THEATRE $36 Full Friends 18 July EDWARDES PERTH COLLEGE $28 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Performed by AUGUST Celebrated guitarist Karin Schaupp joins forces with M T W T F S S Karin Schaupp percussionist extraordinaire Claire Edwardes in an all 18 (classical guitar) Australian program of enthralling musical landscapes. Through Claire Edwardes the mellow and sensual medium of marimba/vibraphone and 7.30pm (percussion) guitar, the audience is taken on a musical journey through the Australian outback, sojourning in lush rainforests and soaking up the sun on warm beaches. Karin Schaupp and Claire WAAPA Sax Extravaganza 2016 Edwardes are two of Australia’s best-loved musical artists and Perth College this is a rare privilege to hear them play together. 31 Lawley Crescent Mount Lawley CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY AND KEYS IN THE CITY GOVERNMENT HOUSE BALLROOM FREE EVENT

Tickets Bookings open SEPTEMBER Performed by An interactive journey through the history of keyboard ANDREY GUGNIN Full MUSIC $40 Friends 18 July M T W T F S S Perth's finest instruments $36 Concession/Friends Public 25 July PIANO RECITAL AUDITORIUM 2 keyboard players Renowned Perth piano technician Paul Tunzi celebrates 40 Performed by Andrey Gugnin, the sensational young first prize winner of years in the business by taking you on an interactive journey AUGUST Tours start at 11am and of discovery and learning as keyboard instruments from Andrey Gugnin the recent 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, will M T W T F S S continue throughout the 1700s to the present day are brought to life by some of 24 give a piano recital at WAAPA as part of his 2017 Australian the day. tour. Hailed as a “star pianist” by Piers Lane, the Moscow Perth’s finest pianists. 7.30pm Conservatory and Lake Como Piano Academy graduate will Bookings essential; visit the WAAPA website for more details bring to the concert stage an extensive and varied program waapa.ecu.edu.au ranging from Bach and Schubert to Desyatnikov, and ending with Stravinsky’s finger-twistingPetrushka . 18 MUSIC 19 ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE Tickets Bookings open CENTRE FOR $27 Full Friends 18 July RADIO ACTIVE Tickets $22 Concession/Friends Full PERFORMING ARTS Public 25 July GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE AND $36 DARK RAIN $26 Concession/Friends ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Music Directors SEPTEMBER Described as “a hugely talented composer using his artistry M T W T F S S Dale Pointon to communicate fresh ideas through a traditional sound”, the Music Directors Radio Active is a high-energy celebration of chart toppers from 2 Philip Everall music of acclaimed British composer Andy Scott is featured Performed by in a double concerto for saxophones and wind orchestra Mike Eastman the 1950s right through to today's hit music. The show features Ric Eastman 7.30pm Rob Buckland performed by world-renowned saxophonist Rob Buckland a diverse repertoire of popular music from pop to rock, RnB to Matt Allen Matt Styles and one of Australia’s foremost exponents of cross-genre soul and funk classics in a spectacularly produced concert with Symphonic Wind saxophone music, Matt Styles. a huge cast of highly talented young musicians and singers. Performed by Ensemble Who better to urge on these soloists than WAAPA’s Before performing in Perth, Radio Active heads south to the Contemporary Music Symphonic Wind Ensemble? Expect to be thrilled by the Albany Entertainment Centre for a unique concert featuring students All Saints’ College unpredictable, captivated by the sounds and colours of new students from Albany Senior High School and Great Southern Ewing Ave, Bull Creek music, and transported into the stratosphere by the combined Grammar along with WAAPA's own staff and students. power of wind and brass. AUGUST SEPTEMBER M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 25 14 16 7.30pm 7.30pm

Tickets Bookings open Albany Entertainment Geoff Gibbs Theatre KUNIKO KATO: MUSIC $31 Full Friends 18 July Centre Tel: 9844 5005 Friends 18 July $26 Concession/Friends Public 25 July TOTAL PERCUSSION AUDITORIUM ticketek.com.au Public 25 July Performed by SEPTEMBER Japanese superstar Kuniko Kato is one of the world’s greatest M T W T F S S Kuniko Kato percussionists, dazzling audiences with her superlative energy, 6 power and poeticism. Experience her breathtaking virtuosity and extraordinary musicianship in this concert of masterworks 7.30pm by Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. “Phenomenal… Kuniko Kato is the total artist, no question. I can’t wait to hear her again.” – Sunday Times, London “These are meticulous and muscular performances, at once elemental and elegant. Brilliant.” – Gramophone

FAITH COURT Tickets Bookings open ORCHESTRA: THE MUSIC $27 Full Friends 18 July WARANA PRIZE AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Music Director SEPTEMBER Enjoy superb musicianship as WAAPA’s three leading M T W T F S S Christopher Dragon instrumentalists join the Faith Court Orchestra to battle it 8 9 Performed by out in the final of the prestigious 2017 Warana Prize, as each Faith Court Orchestra student performs their favourite concerto movement. To 7.30pm with the finalists of round out the program, internationally renowned WAAPA the 2017 Warana graduate Christopher Dragon conducts the Faith Court Prize Orchestra in music from Prokofiev’s glittering balletRomeo and Juliet, and brings the people and landscapes of WA to life in Iain Grandage’s ravishing The Left Edge. A wonderful evening of orchestral music at its best.

Radio Active 2016 20 MUSIC 21 Tickets Bookings open ONE O’CLOCK $27 Full Friends 18 July HIT PARADE: JUMP THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Tickets Bookings open Music Director Join the WAAPA Jazz Vocal Ensemble as they take you on a DEFYING GRAVITY MUSIC $31 Full SEPTEMBER Friends 18 July Victoria Newton swinging musical journey through the harmonically enriched TURNS 30! AUDITORIUM $26 Concession/Friends Public 25 July M T W T F S S 20 Performed by vocal arrangements of some of the most influential jazz vocal WAAPA Jazz Vocal groups of our time. Featuring old and new interpretations SEPTEMBER Music Director Defying Gravity celebrates 30 years at the forefront of 7.30pm of Count Basie and Duke Ellington classics as performed by Tim White Ensemble M T W T F S S Australian percussion, in a gala performance showcasing Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, New York Voices, The Idea of 14 15 16 Performed by stars past and present. International percussion superstar North and many more. Defying Gravity with Kuniko Kato dazzles with her extraordinary skills, legendary 7.30pm special guests Kuniko DG founder Gary France plays Bonham, Kaboom Percussion Kato, Gary France, weave their musical magic, and Marcus Perrozzi and Iain Matinee Kaboom Percussion, Robbie shine with Defying Gravity in a celebration of the Sat 16 September, energy, passion and power of percussion. It’s an electrifying Tickets Bookings open 2.00pm Marcus Perrozzi and MAGIC MOZART & MUSIC $27 Full Friends 18 July birthday party, 30 years in the making! Iain Robbie TCHAIKOVSKY AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Music Director SEPTEMBER Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Mozart’s Eine kleine M T W T F S S Alexandre Da Costa Nachtmusik are two cornerstones of the string orchestra 21 Performed by repertoire and are evergreen favorites with players and String Camerata listeners alike. Alexandre Da Costa, WAAPA's dynamic Head 7.30pm of Strings, directs from the violin in a program that will surely inspire and delight.

SOUND SPECTRUM SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE, 2017.2 ECU MOUNT LAWLEY FREE EVENT Music Director Fresh from the oven, a week of new music by WAAPA’s OCTOBER Composition and Music Technology students and staff at the M T W T F S S Lindsay Vickery Spectrum Project Space. New voices of the next generation of 2 3 4 5 6 Performed by Composition and composers, sound artists and improvisers will perform over 10 7.30pm Music Technology hours of world premieres. The concerts feature Ecuatorial 2 students and staff and 4, Spatial Music, the Western Australian Laptop Orchestra and Shock of the New.

Tickets Bookings open $21 Full Friends 12 September STARSTRUCK THE EDITH $16 Concession/Friends Public 19 September Music Director OCTOBER With acclaimed songwriters such as Tim Minchin, Meg Mac, M T W T F S S Vinnie Crea 2016 Tamworth Toyota Star Maker winner Karin Page and 4 5 Performed by 2013 Telstra Road To Discovery winner Helen Shanahan Music Artist amongst the alumni of WAAPA’s Contemporary Music 7.30pm students program, it makes you wonder what other talent is bubbling away just under the surface. Get to know the future stars of the Australian music industry at this annual showcase of WAAPA’s graduating Music Artists in concert. Don't miss these talented songwriters performing their own originals, with a few sneaky classics and covering the spectrum of contemporary music.

22 MUSIC 23 Bookings open HUMAN/MACHINE MUSIC Tickets Friends 12 September ROSEMARY AND Tickets $11 Flat fee Public 19 September Bookings open INTERACTION AUDITORIUM THYME: THE MUSIC $27 Full Friends 12 September Music Director AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 September OCTOBER Fifty years ago Gordon Mumma'sHornpipe ushered in a new ENGLISH GUITAR Lindsay Vickery kind of music allowing human and machine interaction in the Music Director M T W T F S S OCTOBER Through the passion and artistic genius of Julian Bream, the 5 Performed by form of a ‘semi-automatic response to the sounds generated M T W T F S S Jonathan Paget guitar in England was repositioned at the leading edge of Composition and by the performer’. Today human/machine interaction from 11 Performed by musical excellence, with stunning interpretations of works 7.30pm Music Technology Siri to Google has become ubiquitous; in this concert WAAPA Classical Guitar by the likes of Britten, Walton, and Tippet. Celebrate Bream’s students Composition and Music Technology students explore the 7.30pm artistic legacy and the English guitar heritage in all its richness implications and consequences of this new form of music. students with Jonathan Paget and poetry, from the Renaissance to the present day. The (guitar) and Stewart evening showcases performances by WAAPA guitar students, Smith (piano) and features Jonathan Paget and Stewart Smith in a special performance of Mr Shand’s Guitar Concerto.

PIANO HOMAGES MUSIC AUDITORIUM Bookings open MUSIC Tickets Friends 12 September OCTOBER Homages, reminiscences, dedications, transcriptions – all are CLASSICAL MUSIC AUDITORIUM $21 Flat fee Public 19 September M T W T F S S inspired by love, by a story, by an event. Piano Homages is a ACCOLADES celebration of these works and an exploration of the stories Hosted by 19 OCTOBER A night of celebration and achievement as WAAPA’s music behind these pieces. Come and join WAAPA’s pianists as Stewart Smith prizewinners showcase their extraordinary skills. Every year, 7.30pm they explore a ravishing repertoire including works by Bach, M T W T F S S Performed by WAAPA’s top classical musicians vie for a glittering series of Mozart, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin. 25 2017 Music performance prizes and scholarships, provided by John Court Tickets Music Director 7.30pm Prizewinners and other generous benefactors. Tonight, the recipients of $27 Full Anna Sleptsova these prizes entertain you with their award-winning virtuosity. $22 Concession/Friends Performed by Bookings open Classical Piano students and staff Friends 12 September Public 19 September

Tickets Bookings open MUSIC $27 Full Friends 12 September SPRING SONATAS AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 September Music Director NOVEMBER Join WAAPA’s star string players in a joyful celebration of M T W T F S S Alexandre Da Costa musicianship and virtuosity. Alexandre Da Costa and students 1 Performed by play the brilliant and devilishly challenging music of the String students and Romantic school. A concert overflowing with charm, energy 7.30pm Alexandre Da Costa and passion... music at its most dazzling and irresistible.

Tickets Bookings open MUSIC $27 Full Friends 12 September SPOOKTACULAR! AUDITORIUM $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 September Music Director NOVEMBER It’s here again! The WAAPA Symphonic Wind Ensemble’s M T W T F S S Dale Pointon annual Halloween concert is sure to dazzle your senses, tickle 2 3 Performed by your funny bone, and be enormously entertaining. Join SWE WAAPA Symphonic as we hurtle through time and space with Mason Bates’ 7.30pm Wind Ensemble Mothership and Alfred Reed’s epic Armenian Dances. Don’t forget to dress up, as there are prizes for best costumes.

Celebrate! ECU 25th Anniversary Gala Concert 2016 24 MUSIC 25 OPERA THE IMPRESARIO by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart AND FREE LES MAMELLES DE TIRÉSIAS by Francis Poulenc GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE LUNCHTIME The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor) is a comic singspiel by OCTOBER Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Two warring sopranos try to out-sing M T W T F S S each other with ever-higher notes; the Impresario hires them 16 17 18 19 20 21 CONCERTS both but each wants to be the Prima Donna and receive the highest fee. Who will win? 7.30pm We follow this with Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera-bouffeLes CLASSICAL TUESDAYS JAZZ AND Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Therese). Therese tires Tickets 1.10PM, MUSIC AUDITORIUM CONTEMPORARY of her submissive, dull life – and what follows is just as absurd, $43 Full hilarious and shocking as it was at the premiere in 1947! With $38 Concession/Friends A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime WEDNESDAYS music in the style of Offenbach, Chabrier and Ravel, Poulenc’s concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests Bookings open 1.10PM, THE EDITH OR MUSIC BOX brilliant comic opera impresses the listener with its stream of serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears! melody, dances, and pastiches from other popular music of the Friends 18 July WAAPA’s Jazz and Contemporary Music staff time. Based on a farce by Guillaume Apollinaire,Les Mamelles is Public 25 July Semester 1 and students, along with special visiting sure to delight. guests, provide energetic sounds for that 28 February Honours and Postgraduate afternoon pick-me-up. Double your fun with a boisterous evening at the opera! Student Showcase 7 March Kemp English (fortepiano) Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess 14 March Postcards from WAAPA Staff ALFRESCO Music Director Jessica Gethin 21 March Adam Pinto (piano) Performed by Classical Vocal students THURSDAYS 28 March Oratorio Chorus 18 April Postgraduate Pianists 12.30PM, WAAPA LAWNS 2 May Defying Gravity A mix of laid-back, entertaining outdoor 9 May Sound Spectrum Redux I concerts played by WAAPA’s Jazz and Contemporary Music students. 23 May Symphonic Wind Ensemble 30 May Eneksis Vocal Ensemble Semester 2 1 August Wind and Brass Chamber Music GRADUATION 8 August WAAPA Young Performer of the Year Competition RECITALS Graduation recitals are the highlight of a music 15 August Classical Guitar Showcase student’s studies, and bring WAAPA’s 2017 22 August Piano Showcase – Part 1 music calendar to a thrilling conclusion. After 29 August Rob Buckland (saxophone, UK) years of hard practice and performance, the 12 September Kuniko Kato (percussion, Japan) standard of these recitals is exceptional. 19 September Philip Everall (bass clarinet) and Jazz and Contemporary Music recitals will take Alix Hamilton (viola) place at The Ellington Jazz Club in Northbridge 3 October Sound Spectrum Redux II throughout October and November. 17 October Piano Showcase – Part 2 Classical Instrumental, Classical Vocal and Composition recitals will take place in various 24 October Symphonic Wind Ensemble WAAPA venues at ECU Mount Lawley 31 October Eneksis Vocal Ensemble throughout November. See website one month prior to recital date Albert Herring 2016 for full details waapa.ecu.edu.au 26 27 DANCE RISE UNLEASH VERGE

TWIN SHARE INVENTORIES OF BODIES IN MOVEMENT IM SPIEGEL

Verge 2016 28 29 RISE UNLEASH GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE DOLPHIN THEATRE, UWA 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley Tickets WAAPA’s talented dancers rise to new artistic heights in neo-classical and AUGUST MAY $27 Full contemporary dance works created on them by four outstanding choreographers. M T W T F S S M T W T F S S The graduating dancers unleash their creativity by 29 30 31 $22 Concession/Friends Award-winning dancer Jane Smeulders spent 17 years with the West choreographing their own dance works, performed Australian Ballet, the last nine as principal dancer, following four years with the 6 Bookings open by their peers. To round out this student-led season, internationally acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater II. WAAPA alumnus Scott 8 9 10 11 12 SEPTEMBER Friends 18 July Composition and Music Technology students compose M T W T F S S Public 25 July Ewen performed with Garry Stewart’s Australian Dance Theatre around the 7.30pm imaginative soundscapes for these highly original 1 2 world and has created works for dance companies in Australia, New Zealand performances. and Norway. LINK graduate Bernadette Lewis collaborated with Israeli artists Tickets 7.30pm Joel Bray and Oded Ronen on a 2015 Strut Seed residency and last year was $27 Full Community Engagement Artist for the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre and $22 Concession/Friends Choreographers 3rd Year Dance students Matinee Co3. Kim McCarthy, WAAPA’s Coordinator of Classical Ballet, was a soloist with Sat 2 September, 2.00pm Bookings open Performed by WAAPA Dance students the Hamburg Ballet Company under John Neumeier and principal dancer with the Friends 4 April Music composed by Composition and Music Technology students No evening performance Compañia Nacional de Danza under Nacho Duato. These four artists bring their Public 11 April brilliant expertise and fierce creativity to WAAPA’s first season of dance.

Choreographers Jane Smeulders, Scott Ewen, Bernadette Lewis and Kim McCarthy Performed by 2nd and 3rd Year Dance students VERGE GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE

This program of two original contemporary works and a timeless ballet classic celebrates the skill and artistry of the graduating students as they prepare to embark on their professional careers. Alumnus Richard Cilli, whose prodigious talent saw him accepted into the Sydney Dance Company on graduation, won a 2010 Helpmann Award for his performance in Rafael Bonachela’s We Unfold. After a break of two years, during which he danced with Sweden’s K. Kvarnström & Co and choreographed for the Australian Ballet, Cilli is back dancing with SDC, with his original work Hinterland. Perth-based Brooke Leeder won the 2014 WA Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for her work Mechanic, and was commissioned to create a new work for the 2015 launch season of Co3 Youth Company. Rounding out the program, WAAPA lecturers Kim McCarthy and Danielle Hunt reimagine Marius Petipa’s whimsical Don Quixote Suite, based on Miguel de Cervantes’ acclaimed novel.

Choreographers Richard Cilli, Brooke Leeder, Kim McCarthy and Danielle Hunt Performed by 2nd and 3rd Year Dance students

NOVEMBER Tickets M T W T F S S $33 Full $28 Concession/Friends 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 Bookings open Friends 12 September 7.30pm Public 19 September

Hatch 2016 30 DANCE 31 RESEARCH Tickets Bookings open POSTGRADUATE & RESEARCH SHOWCASE GEOFF GIBBS $27 Full Friends 4 April MUSIC AUDITORIUM TWIN SHARE THEATRE $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April WAAPA has a thriving postgraduate research program, covering topics from interactive MAY Choreographers Madrid-based international choreographer Carmelo Segura digital music systems, different approaches to pianistic mastery, transforming dance M T W T F S S Carmelo Segura joins the collaborating team of Michael Whaites and into poetry and vice versa, site-specific theatre, digital and physiological analysis of Sue Peacock 24 25 26 27 Sue Peacock to create a sumptuous evening of exquisite human movement, new directions in jazz fusion, arts management, playwrighting, arts Michael Whaites contemporary dance that showcases LINK’s largest cohort education, and many other areas of creative endeavour. Our outstanding students are 7.30pm Performed by to date. Includes the live performance of Simeon Ten Holt’s guided by world-class supervisors in their exploration of those issues which are at the LINK Dance Canto Ostinato on two baby grand pianos. Matinee heart of performing arts practice today. The WAAPA Postgraduate Research showcase Company Sat 27 May, 2.00pm offers a rare opportunity for audiences to be dazzled and intrigued by arts projects in their nascent stages, to view the ideas that will change our cultural world in the future. No evening performance All welcome. The program will include both showings and Tickets discussion. Expect the unexpected and enjoy INVENTORIES OF FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Tickets from fac.org.au the ride. BODIES IN MOVEMENT 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle or 9432 9555 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Choreographers LINK Dance joins forces with Co3 Youth, Tracksuit and DADAA M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Christine Fricker in to present Inventories of Bodies in Movement (IBM). Created collaboration with 23 5 6 7 and directed by French choreographer Christine Fricker, IBM the dancers in Perth will be performed by 80 WA dancers and will explore Daytime performances Performed by the themes of 'Islands, Isolation and Environment'. Previous 7.30pm Duration: 30 minutes LINK Dance iterations have been performed in Tanger, Calgary, Boston, Company In Vienna, Ramallah and Marseille. FREE EVENT collaboration with Visit the WAAPA website closer to performance dates for further Co3 Youth, DADAA information waapa.ecu.edu.au. and Tracksuit

Tickets Bookings open $27 Full Friends 12 September IM SPIEGEL THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 September

NOVEMBER Choreographer Devised specifically for The Edith, WAAPA’s newest M T W T F S S Sam Chester performance venue, Im Spiegel (In the Mirror) brings Acting 9 10 11 Performed by and Performance Movement lecturer and director Sam LINK Dance Chester together with the dancers of LINK and a special 7.30pm Company with guest artist. Based on the theme of identity, this 45-minute special guest artist contemporary dance work will bring this magical mirrored palace to life.

DANCE Motion State 2016 32 33 ACTING THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING PETITS FOURS THE TEMPEST LOVE AND THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK INFORMATION MOMENTUM A DREAM PLAY PRESENT THE THREEPENNY OPERA LAUGHTER AS YOU LIKE IT

Coriolanus 2016 34 35 Tickets Bookings open Tickets Bookings open THE BLIND GIANT ROUNDHOUSE $27 Full Friends 7 February $27 Full Friends 4 April IS DANCING THEATRE $22 Concession/Friends Public 14 February A DREAM PLAY THE EDITH $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Written by Written by WAAPA’s new Spiegeltent, The Edith, provides an immersive, MARCH In today’s world of global political disillusionment, Brexit and MAY August Strindberg in-the-round setting for Caryl Churchill’s adaptation of M T W T F S S Stephen Sewell Trump, Stephen Sewell’s 1983 award-winning play of political M T W T F S S Director apostasy and the corrupting effects of power resonates with 5 6 Adapted by Strindberg’s 1901 expressionistic drama, a dreamscape 17 18 journey in which everything is possible, characters merge Michael McCall timeless truths. On his rise to power, idealistic left-wing 8 9 10 11 Caryl Churchill 20 21 22 23 into each other and locations change in an instant. Agnes, Performed by politician Allen Fitzgerald becomes increasingly entangled in Director 7.30pm machine politics, public corruption and personal traumas. This 7.30pm a woman from another world, wants to find out if life is as 2nd Year Lizzie Schebesta classic Australian political drama is a passionate examination difficult as humans make it out to be. She discovers a rich Acting students Performed by Matinee of the way power can corrupt the individual and society at patchwork of human experiences which might, or might not, 2nd Year Sat 18 March, 2.00pm large. reveal the meaning of life. Acting students Warning: contains adult themes and coarse language

Tickets Bookings open STATE THEATRE CENTRE, Courtyard PRESENT ROUNDHOUSE $33 Full Friends 4 April THE TEMPEST 174-176 William St, Perth FREE EVENT LAUGHTER THEATRE $28 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Written by A storm shipwrecks members of a royal court on a mysterious Written by Vivian Munn, actor, director and educator at London’s MARCH JUNE William Shakespeare island. Waiting for them onshore is Prospero, a powerful M T W T F S S Noel Coward prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, directs this M T W T F S S magician who seeks revenge on an usurping brother and his delicious play described by Noel Coward as “a series of 17 18 Director 16 17 Director co-conspirators. Stuart Halusz, Associate Director at Black semi-autobiographical pyrotechnics”. Self-obsessed matinee 20 21 22 23 Stuart Halusz 19 20* 21 22 Vivian Munn Performed by Swan State Theatre Company, brings Shakespeare's mystical Performed by idol Garry Essendine is suave, hedonistic and too old to be masterpiece about forgiveness and justice to life under the 7.30pm having affairs with infatuated young fans. Just before he 7.30pm 3rd Year 3rd Year stars in the State Theatre Centre Courtyard. escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours Acting students Acting students Matinee Matinee are discovered, and all hell breaks loose! Present Laughter Sat 18 March, 2.00pm Sat 17 June, 2.00pm combines wickedly funny wordplay, biting bon mots and *Post-show discussion acidic-yet-likable characters to create a classic recipe for on Tue 20 June timeless comedy.

Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $27 Full Friends 4 April STUDIO $22 Concession/Friends Public 11 April Tickets Bookings open PETITS FOURS THE DIARY OF ROUNDHOUSE $33 Full Friends 4 April Written by JUNE Petits Fours celebrates the breathtakingly original work of four THEATRE $28 Concession/Friends Public 11 April ANNE FRANK M T W T F S S Hellie Turner local playwrights. The multi-award winning Hellie Turner is Chris Isaacs joined by three emerging writers: theatre maker Chris Isaacs, Written by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is the compelling story 16 17 MAY Gita Bezard who scooped numerous awards for The Great Ridolphi; Gita Francis Goodrich and of a Jewish teenager hiding with her family from the Nazis in 19 20 21 22 M T W T F S S Finn O’Branagáin Albert Hackett the German-occupied Netherlands. Described as a ‘coming Bezard, who won the 2016 Black Swan Emerging Writer’s 5 6 7.30pm Directors Award for Girl Shut Your Mouth; and Finn O’Branagáin, who Director of age behind locked doors’, the book has sold 30 million 8 9* 10 11 Nicole Stinton was recently co-artistic director of the Crack Theatre Festival, Peggy Shannon copies in 67 languages. To mark the 70th anniversary of its Trudy Dunn This is Not Art, in Newcastle. For those who like their theatre 7.30pm Performed by publication, visiting guest director Peggy Shannon, Chair of Ryerson University’s School of Performance in Canada, directs Suzie Conte short, sharp and highly entertaining. Matinee 3rd Year Julia Jarel Acting students WAAPA’s graduating Acting students in the powerful play Petits Fours was co-commissioned by WAAPA and Playwriting Sat 6 May, 2.00pm based on Anne’s diary. Performed by Australia with the support of the Department of Culture and *Post-show discussion 2nd Year the Arts WA and the Minderoo Foundation. on Tue 9 May Acting students

36 ACTING 37 ROUNDHOUSE Tickets Bookings open THEATRE THE THREEPENNY $36 Full Friends 12 September LOVE AND $31 Concession/Friends Public September INFORMATION OPERA THE EDITH 19 Written by Step into WAAPA’s newest venue for a classic of 20th century How truly connected are we in today’s world OCTOBER Bertolt Brecht music theatre, Brecht’s ‘opera for beggars’. As London scrubs of ever-connectedness? In a series of 57 M T W T F S S up for the coronation, the thieves are on the make, the tantalising vignettes, over 100 characters 13 14 Music by whores are on the pull and the police are cutting deals. Mr search for meaning in their lives through 16 17* 18 19 Kurt Weill and Mrs Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the sex, death, feeling, thinking, taxidermy and Director 7.30pm beggary business, but Mack the Knife is back in town and their karaoke. Enjoy this exhilarating theatrical Craig Ilott daughter didn’t come home last night. Weill’s acid harmonies kaleidoscope from one of the most radically Matinee Music Director and Brecht’s biting texts infuse the music of 1920s Berlin inventive dramatists of our time. Churchill Sat 14 October, Kohan van Sambeeck dance band and cabaret with a shot of razor-sharp politics. questions how today’s endless stream of 2.00pm Performed by digital data has dramatically altered the way *Post-show discussion 3rd Year we relate to one another, and to ourselves. on Tue 17 October Acting students Written by Caryl Churchill Director Andrew Lewis Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $27 Full Friends 12 September Performed by 3rd Year STUDIO $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 Setptember Acting students AS YOU LIKE IT Written by OCTOBER Heroes. Villains. Wrestling. Cross dressing. And love at first AUGUST M T W T F S S William Shakespeare sight. Bell Shakespeare Company regular Sean O’Shea directs M T W T F S S 13 14 Director one of the Bard’s most charming and beloved romantic comedies, where chance encounters blossom into the 25 26 16 17 18 19 Sean O'Shea 28 29 30 31 Performed by entaglement of love. Enjoy romance, laughter and a world of 7.30pm passionate possibilty in the Forest of Arden. 7.30pm 2nd Year Matinee Acting students Matinee Sat 14 October, 2.00pm Sat 26 August, 2.00pm

Tickets ACTING $36 Full $31 Concession/Friends FILMS Bookings open COME TO THE EDGE LUNA CINEMAS, LEEDERVILLE Friends 18 July The WA Screen Academy, WAAPA and leading screen industry guests take Public 25 July SEPTEMBER M T W T F S S to the red carpet for the Gala Screening of The Academy Films - a program of short films exploring the theme, 'Come to the Edge'. The films are 13 2015 28 created by the 2017 Screen Academy class of producers, writers, directors, 7.00pm cinematographers, sound designers and editors. The Academy Films feature Tickets WAAPA 3rd Year Acting students on screen as well as music composers, costume designers and sound students. The Gala event also includes the Tickets Bookings open $25 Full ENRIGHT $27 Full Friends 18 July $20 Concession/Friends presentation of the esteemed Channel 9 Awards for excellence. The WA Bookings online STUDIO $22 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Screen Academy is proudly sponsored by the Nine Network and the Gala MOMENTUM eventbrite.com.au screening will be hosted by a celebrity and filmed by the network for a Devised by AUGUST Since 1991, Andy Paris, one of the founding members of Bookings open broadcast program aired on Channel 9 in October. M T W T F S S Andy Paris Tectonic Theater Project (NYC) has created some of the Friends 18 July 25 26 and the 2nd Year most thrilling and important American theatre of our age, Public 25 July Acting students 28 29* 30 31 simultaneously building a wholly unique methodology Director for developing, analyzing and re-imagining theatre called 7.30pm Andy Paris Moment Work™. Moment Work has been used to create all Performed by of Tectonic’s pieces including The Laramie Project Cycle. In a Matinee coup for WAAPA and thanks to the generosity of Minderoo, Sat 26 August, 2.00pm 2nd Year Acting students Andy Paris visited WAAPA in 2016 to commence work on this *Post-show discussion exciting project with the Acting students and staff and now he on Tue 29 August returns to direct this freshly minted piece of theatre. 38 39 PERFORMING ARTS ABORIGINAL PERFORMANCE

WINDMILL BABY ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE Recipient of the prestigious Patrick White Award, David Milroy’s Windmill Baby premiered in Perth in 2005 and has since been performed all over the world. With the poetry of a campfire story and the comedy of a great yarn, this tale of true love is set on an abandoned cattle station in the breathtaking Kimberley landscape of azure skies and red dirt. Graduate Eva Grace Mullaley returns to WAAPA to direct this Australian classic. Written by David Milroy Director Eva Grace Mullaley Music Director Wayne Freer Performed by Aboriginal Performance students

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SOLO STAGE: MOMENTS OF BEING SLEEP THE SECRET PROJECT TILT Rodeo Moon 2015 Solo Stage: The Deadly Sins 2016 40 41 Bookings open ENRIGHT Tickets Friends 4 April TILT SOLO STAGE: THE BLUE ROOM THEATRE STUDIO $15 Flat fee Public 11 April MOMENTS OF BEING 53 James St, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge Devised and MAY Program A “We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.” performed by M T W T F S S – Virginia Woolf Expect talent and daring in this program of six self-devised 2nd Year 10 12 Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s autobiography, WAAPA’s pieces created and performed by WAAPA’s graduating Performance adventurous young theatremakers create their own ‘moments Performance Making students at the popular Blue Room 7.30pm Making students of being’ on stage in their first ever solo performances. Expect Theatre. Powerful performances and impressive stagecraft Under the underpin works that explore the very edges of theatre MAY Program B a diverse range of styles in these self-devised short works, guidance of from dramatic monologues and comedy acts to highly visual making, creating an evening of other-worldly theatre that M T W T F S S Samantha Chester will inspire, provoke and entertain. 11 13 movement-based pieces. This is theatre that is bold, brave and brilliantly original. 7.30pm Created, directed and performed by 3rd Year Performance Making students, under the guidance of Frances Barbe

PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 2 AUGUST SEPTEMBER M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Bookings open SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE 30 31 6 7 8 9 SLEEP 1 Short St, Fremantle 17 April SEPTEMBER 7.00pm Director Under the expert guidance of Spare Parts’ award-winning MAY M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Michael Barlow Associate Director, Michael Barlow, the final year Performance Matinee 1 2 25 26 Performed by Making students devise and perform a series of wildly creative, Sat 9 September, beautifully realized puppetry works inspired by the classic 3rd Year 7.00pm 2.00pm 7.30pm Performance fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty. This magical show of edgy adult Making students puppetry poses questions about suppressed sensuality, Matinee Tickets vengeance for social exclusion and the occasional murderous Tickets Sat 2 September, $21 Flat fee $21 Flat fee instinct! 2.00pm Tel: 9227 7005 Bookings online Online: blueroom.org.au sppt.asn.au or in person or Tel: 9335 5044 Transaction fees may apply

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Tickets Bookings open THE SECRET $27 Full Friends 12 September PROJECT $22 Concession/Friends Public 19 September

OCTOBER Director This site-specific show will be devised by the Performance Dates to be advised Danielle Micich Making students in response to a given environment that Performed by is both inspiring and challenging. This year they will be 7.30pm 2nd Year collaborating with Force Majeure's Artistic Director, Danielle Performance Micich. Immerse yourself in this promenade-style production Making students and be guided through a highly entertaining experience. The secret location and performance dates will be revealed in June. Visit the WAAPA website for further details waapa.ecu.edu.au

Tilt 2016 42 PERFORMING ARTS 43 MUSIC THEATRE HEATHERS THE MUSICAL

LORD OF THE FLIES

42ND STREET CHICAGO BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON

The Beautiful Game 2016 44 45 Tickets Bookings open ENRIGHT $22 Full Friends 7 February LORD OF THE FLIES STUDIO $17 Concession/Friends Public 14 February Play based on the MARCH William Golding’s classic 1954 novel explodes onto the stage book by M T W T F S S in a highly theatrical retelling of this famous allegorical tale. William Golding 17 18 When a group of British schoolboys survives a catastrophic Adapted for the 20 21 22 23 plane crash, what starts as a desert island adventure quickly stage by descends into a struggle for survival in a darkly sinister 7.30pm Nigel Williams world of immorality and brutal savagery. This innovative Director production will feature both all-male and all-female casts, Crispin Taylor who will perform either Act I or Act II in every performance. Performed by Guaranteed to be a highly original event and a gripping night 2nd Year Music at the theatre. Theatre students Books, Music and Lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe Based on the film written by Tickets Bookings open $48 Full Friends July Daniel Waters GEOFF GIBBS 18 THEATRE $41 Concession/Friends Public 25 July Director CHICAGO Music by Andrew Lewis AUGUST A tale of fame, fortune and all that jazz … nightclub dancer John Kander Roxie Hart, who dreams of headlining in Vaudeville, kills her Music Director M T W T F S S Lyrics by lover, then convinces her husband to come up with the cash David King 26 Fred Ebb to hire Chicago’s shrewdest, smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn 28 29 30 31 Choreographer Book by to defend her. Winner of 6 Tony Awards, 2 Olivier Awards Bernie Bernard Fred Ebb and a Grammy, Chicago is now in its 20th year on Broadway, SEPTEMBER Performed by and Bob Fosse a testament to Kander and Ebb’s songwriting genius and Bob M T W T F S S 3rd Year Music Theatre students Director Fosse’s choreographic brilliance. 1 2 Crispin Taylor 7.30pm Music Director Hilarious, heartfelt and homicidal! Brainy, beautiful David King teenage misfit Veronica Sawyer hustles her way into Matinee Choreographer the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg Sat 2 September, Michael Ralph High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable 2.00pm Performed by atop the high-school food chain, Veronica falls in love 3rd Year Music with the dangerously sexy new kid, JD. When Heather Theatre students Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to kiss Heather’s aerobicized butt… but JD has other plans. Based on the film that became a cult classic, Heathers: The Musical is a darkly delicious look at the joys and anguish of high school. Tickets Bookings open BLOODY BLOODY ROUNDHOUSE $38 Full Friends 12 September Warning: Heathers is not suitable for a conservative audience. THEATRE $33 Concession/Friends Public 19 September Suitable for ages 15+ ANDREW JACKSON Music and Lyrics by OCTOBER Andrew Jackson, America’s seventh president, gets the rock Michael Friedman M T W T F S S ‘n’ roll treatment in this exhilarating and raucous show about GEOFF GIBBS THEATRE 14 Book by the founding of the Democratic Party. AJ kicked British butt, Alex Timbers 16 17 18 19 20 21 shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards, all MARCH Director in the name of the United States – who cares if he didn’t M T W T F S S 7.30pm Shaun Rennie have permission? With its blend of outrageous comedy, 18 Tickets Music Director anarchic theatricality and an infectious rock score, this wildly Matinee 20 21 22 23 24 25 $48 Full Craig Dalton entertaining 90-minute show draw parallels to today’s political Sat 21 October, landscape. $41 Concession/Friends 2.00pm Choreographer 7.30pm Christabel Ellis Bookings open Performed by Matinee Friends 7 February 2nd Year Music Public 14 February Theatre students Rent 2016 Sat 25 March, 2.00pm 46 MUSIC THEATRE 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

2017 FRIENDS EVENTS Fazioli Fascination (Music) Thursday 27 April Music Auditorium JUNE Music by Broadway’s most famous song-and-dance Harry Warren fable comes to the Regal! Get ready for a M T W T F S S Life Is a Cabaret (Music) Friday 2 June The Edith Lyrics by dazzling entertainment of scintillating tap 17 Al Dubin routines and catchy show tunes – gems such Present Laughter (Acting) Saturday 17 June, matinee Roundhouse Theatre as We’re in the Money, Lullaby of Broadway 20 21 22 23 24 Book by and the show-stopping title song. This Tony Michael Stewart Chicago (Music Theatre) Friday 1 September Geoff Gibbs Theatre 7.30pm Award-winning musical follows the fortunes and Mark Bramble of ingénue Peggy Sawyer on her meteoric Hit Parade: Defying Gravity Turns 30! Saturday 16 September, matinee Music Auditorium Matinee Director rise from chorus girl to overnight Broadway Jason Langley Sat 17 and sensation during the Great Depression. Windmill Baby (Aboriginal Performance) Wednesday 22 November Roundhouse Theatre Sat 24 June, 2.00pm Music Director WAAPA’s production, with its cast of rising David King music theatre stars, promises to be full of After each performance please join us for a complimentary supper and Q & A session with the cast REGAL THEATRE Choreographer energy and heart. 474 HAY ST, SUBIACO Lisa O’Dea Lighting Designer Tickets Mark Howett $73 Full Set Designer APPLICATION FORM $63 Concession/Friends Tyler Hill PERSONAL DETAILS TICK MEMBERSHIP TYPE Bookings open Costume Designer Sarah Duyvestyn On sale now Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other Student/Concession $32 through Ticketek Performed by Senior $43 Tel: 1300 795 012 2nd and 3rd Year Name ticketek.com.au Music Theatre students Single $59 and WAAPA Music Postal Address Couple $80 students Family $90

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