A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears!

LINK Dance Company presents Moving Object, an outstanding season of contemporary dance by emerging and established choreographers.

WAAPA's Classical Piano department invites you to a concert of music that celebrates the history of the piano itself. The program will include the most popular and enduring works of the piano repertoire, showcasing the variety of colour and style of the instrument and the performers.

The first of the two chamber operas is the drama of Dido and her lover, Aeneas and is one of the most tragic of love stories - two lovers torn apart by the gods. The sublime music of Henry Purcell is as relevant today as it was in his time and the birth of opera in England in the 17th Century. The second is simply a playful drama, with a sentimental plot and a happy ending!

A potpouuri of favourite songs, arias and ensembles including the beautiful trio from Dvorak’s Rusalka, Rossini’s hilarious Cat duet and the divine quartet from the final scene of Little Women, the opera. Plus a few music theatre treasures for good measure.

Funny but heart wrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires.

The Broadway sensation, based on the 1968 musical film, tells the story of a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.

Deception, passion and intrigue abound as Rosalind and Celia flee death in the city to become refugees in the Forest of Arden where different terrors, delights and temptations lie in wait.

Decibel moves into the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts for two weeks of open rehearsals, artist talks and two concerts in the West End Space.

A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears!

Premiering in New York in 1924 to tumultuous applause, George Gershwin's classical-jazz concerto Rhapsody in Blue is enormously popular. Gershwin's 1928 tone poem An American in Paris evokes the energy, sights and sounds of Paris in the 1920s.

The WAAPA/ECU Open Day is a perfect opportunity to explore behind the scenes at one of the world’s foremost performing arts academies. See WAAPA students in action and speak with staff members about the range of course options.

ICMC | IDEA (International Developments in Electro Accoustics) showcases important international scholarly and artistic practices regarding the combination of computing, acoustic instruments and space.

Decibel premieres a commission by Alvin Curran (USA) amongst other international works.

Celebrating a unique cross-institutional collaborative composition, this will be the world premiere performance of a work for 'massed saxophones', entitled Rite of Passage.

Choral music that will inspire and uplift directed by one of Australia's most dynamic choral conductors. In the sumptuous acoustic of St Mary's Cathedral, Brett Weymark leads WAAPA's vocal students in a performance of Durufle's timeless Requiem.

Alison Wedding is one of New York's finest jazz vocalists. As a resident of Australia for nearly 10 years, Alison was lauded as one of "our" greatest jazz talents. Tonight she performs repertoire with the WAAPA sextet, arranged by WAAPA Jazz Coordinator, Jamie Oehlers.

Fresh Ground is a unique recital project that explores a number of interlocking performance approaches. Compositions will merge from traditional set works, improvised cadenzas, preludes and interludes toward more contemporary processed soundscapes and looped textural improvisations.

Bright Young Things clash with the sanctimoniously narrow-minded as Noel Coward takes aim at social prejudice and religious hypocrisy in his comedy of manners about an oppressive matriarch, whose rigorous, archaic and restricted conception of "virtue", leads her family down a path of destruction.

This revue-style musical lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated, or tried to assassinate, the President of the United States. Bold, original, disturbing, and alarmingly funny, Assassins is one of the most important and controversial musicals ever written.

The graduating dancers showcase their prodigious choreographic talents in this selection of new dance works, performed by their peers.

Luigi Russolo's Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises extols the joys of noise: "vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons, greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke".

Three student soloists battle it out for WAAPA's highest honour: the prestigious Warana Prize. Over the years this competition has seen its winners go on to exciting careers after graduation.

Join the huge cast of talented young musicians and singers as they entertain you in a high- energy celebration of chart-toppers from performers who have shaped our modern musical tastes. There's something for everyone - from rock to pop, rhythm and blues to funk classics and soul. Radio Active rocks!

Few instruments possess the popularity, flexibility, passion, and poetry of the Spanish guitar. Experience the authentic spirit of the guitar with music from Spain and Latin America, and beyond, performed by WAAPA staff (including Jonathan Paget and Craig Lake), Plectra ensemble, and talented WAAPA guitarists.

Sparks fly and worlds collide as renowned WA drummer Ric Eastman leads Defying Gravity through an electrifying celebration of the art of percussion.

In the wake of so-called "Post-Minimalism", American composers have embraced the contemporary sextet's blend of instruments as an outlet for different musical influences. etica showcases some of the more recent repertoire that smudges the line between genres, performing works by David Lang, Stephen Hartke and Fredric Rzewski.

The Jazz Vocal Ensemble and WAAPA’s Brazilian Ensemble dive into an ocean of Brazilian music where rhythms such as samba, bossa- nova and biaon swirl around the colours and textures of this fascinating style.

Sound Spectrum Festival 2 includes new and experimental acoustic and electronic music performance, spatial and interactive works as well as the WA Laptop Orchestra, Ecuatorial 2 and 4 And Shock Of The New II.

In an attempt to save his sanity, an artist and his wife retreat to an abandoned island. There they must confront his darkest secrets and her greatest fears.

With their father fighting in the civil war, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence.

Join us for a gala screening of exciting new short films created by the 2013 WA Screen Academy graduating class of producers, writers, directors, cinematographers and editors. Collaborating on the films are a range of WAAPA students, from the Actors onscreen, to original scores composed by the Music Composition students and the skills of WAAPA’s Production and Design department.

Peter Moore leads WAAPA's woodwind students through a delicious arrangement of Carl Orff's thrilling Carmina Burana for double wind quintet, while Matt Styles directs the funky members of WAAPA's Saxophone Studio in an intriguing evening of re-interpretations where classical favourites like Bolero are performed in unique combinations.

The guitar is unique in the cultural diversity of its musical riches. In this program, WAAPA students perform works from different continents, different countries, and different ethnicities - including not only Europe, Latin America and Australia, but also Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

This concert showcases the talent and achievements of WAAPA's dynamic group of piano students. Be dazzled and entertained by a musical feast of exciting masterworks.

Joshua Davis leads WAAPA's dynamic Brass Ensemble through a varied and magical world of music for symphonic brass, showcasing the talented students and staff of the Classical Brass Department.

The musical soiree reached its zenith in the Edwardian era. Heavy on both sentiment and morality, we can now look back at this period with a bemused affection. One cannot deny the emotional effect of the great parlour songs of the period.

Join us as we celebrate the creative outcomes of the Aboriginal Theatre program. An established playwright will collaborate with the students to produce a new dramatic work, offering a compelling insight into contemporary indigenous culture and performance.

This fantastic finale for the dance year includes Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato's exciting and passionate work, Jardi Tancat, based on Catelonian folk tales; Kim McCarthy's and Andries Weidemann's restaging of favourite scenes from the comic ballet Coppélia, set to music by Delibes, and a keenly anticipated new work by award-winning Australian choreographer, Leigh Warren.