A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears!
WAAPA is delighted to present a Masterclass Series with Mr Yurisich, all of which are free and open to the public.
Staff and students from Classical, Jazz and Contemporary Music join together to present an event where classical, jazz, minimalism and funk collide, collude and collaborate to produce some truly ‘original blends’.
The wonderful Emma Matthews, Australia’s favourite soprano and WAAPA’s new Head of Classical Voice, shares with us some of her personal favourites in a delightful afternoon of song.
A super-charged circus-inspired evening of musical entertainment, a joy-filled show brimming with surprise, delight and wonder… and supreme musicianship.
This festival of new sounds features WAAPA’s Composition and Music Technology students and staff performing five nights of original music at ECU's Spectrum Project Space.
Pianist Thomas Hecht follows pathways from the Old World to the New, with the great composers Bach, Beethoven and Brahms who are often referred to as 'the 'Three B’s'.
This concert features works by WAAPA Composition and Music Technology students responding to the key moment that mainstreamed the aesthetics and techniques of alternative musical exploration.
Superstar Emma Matthews, Australia’s renowned international opera star, returns to Perth as WAAPA’s new Head of Classical Voice.
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for some serious funky good times as WAAPA's talented Jazz musicians and special guests present this interactive performance of New Orleans modern jazz and funk.
Composers from Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States have contributed new songs for outstanding American tenor Kevin Hanrahan and WAAPA singers.
Keen singers, shy singers, bathroom singers and stage animals of all kinds are invited to our Spiegeltent, The Edith, for a day of sheer joy with the inspiring Mary King (UK).
In an exciting collaboration, WAAPA and WAYJO come together to present a showcase of the rising stars of the jazz world in the WAAPA Jazz Young Artists Ensemble.
The WAAPA Symphonic Wind Ensemble shines its boots and marches into 2018 with a program celebrating the military band tradition.
WAAPA's talented piano students present this celebration of Chopin’s beloved piano music.
Special guest Australian guitarist Ken Murray joins WAAPA's guitar students for a fascinating musical journey into the Australian outback, from the musically iconic to the arcane.
For all amusement seekers everywhere, we propose an evening of delights prodigious and fantastical.
Alexandre Da Costa joins his students to perform one of his signature pieces in a concert that overflows with charm, energy and virtuosity.
Join fortepianists Geoffrey Lancaster and James Huntingford as they present three of Beethoven’s most popular and revolutionary piano sonatas.
WAAPA guitar lecturer, Freddie Grigson, leads the incredibly talented jazz guitar students through a diverse range of music featuring the king of the string instruments (according to them!).
This incarnation of Keys In The City sees four of Western Australia’s greatest keyboard instrumentalists take visitors on a journey of sound across an assortment of rare and historical keyboard instruments.
A tasty Tuesday series of free classical lunchtime concerts featuring staff, students or visiting guests serving up sumptuous musical treats for hungry ears!
This high-energy ensemble will pay tribute to this legend, playing an assortment of Mingus’ most famous works tinged with soul, hard bop, gospel, free jazz and classical music.
Join WAAPA’s superb wind chamber ensemble as they perform the sublime Gran Partita by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The WAAPA / ECU Open Day is a perfect opportunity to explore behind the scenes. Come and see WAAPA in action!
Get down and boogie with all the classic soul, neo-soul, funk and R&B favourites.
Radioactive in residence is a unique performance presented by the students of Great Southern Grammar, Albany Senior High School and WAAPA.
Brazilian classical guitarists, Chrystian Dozza, will perform a stunning selection of his solo guitar music and will be joined by WAAPA guitar students for special performances of some of his larger works.
Showcasing the violin`s most popular repertoire, this is a chance to hear one of the world’s finest virtuosos in full flight on a stunning Stradivarius violin.
Two of WAAPA’s outstanding showcase choirs come together to raise the roof with glorious choral singing
Meta Overman’s music has been buried treasure until very recently. Performer scholars Jeanelle Carrigan and David Wickham present performances of piano music, duo sonatas and songs in a fascinating portrait of this important artist.
The WAAPA Afro-Peruvian ensemble showcases high-level WAAPA music students from all year groups collaborating to perform original music combining Afro-Peruvian and jazz musical elements.
A night of drama and superb musicianship as WAAPA’s three leading instrumentalists join the Faith Court Orchestra to battle it out in the final of the prestigious 2018 Warana Prize.
The WAAPA 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 will transform the future of arts practice.
Rapturous and exotic, gorgeous and romantic, passionate and powerful: an ace team of percussion magicians joins Defying Gravity to create musical alchemy in a heavenly world made entirely of sound.
The show features a diverse repertoire of music from pop to rock, R&B to soul and funk classics in a spectacularly produced concert with a huge cast of highly talented young musicians and singers.
Come and be blown away with the sound of 130 saxophones.
Our jazz Vocal Ensemble will have you grooving in your seats to soul classics with lush vocal harmonies in abundance.
WAAPA is the proud owner of a specially commissioned harpsichord by Bruce Kennedy, one the world’s greatest craftsmen.
The Royal Over-Seas League helps WAAPA’s most talented music students achieve their dreams on stage in Australia and internationally.
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 WAAPA Camerata presents an evening of Baroque beauty with a full spread of romantic and modern vision.
New voices of the next generation of composers, sound artists and improvisers will perform over 10 hours of world premieres.
The guitar has always belonged to the people; across its history of many centuries, the guitar has continued to occupy the space between both popular and elite.
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.
Massenet’s sumptuous Cinderella story comes to WAAPA in a witty and darkly charming new production by director Thomas de Mallet Burgess.
Fall in love again with Anna Sleptsova and the WAAPA piano students in an evening of elation, heartbreak, yearning and passion.
A night of celebration and achievement as WAAPA’s music prizewinners showcase their extraordinary skills.
Then come and join us for an exhilarating exercise in musical time travel.
Immerse yourself in beauty, vibrato and sensitivity as the string department invites you to experience some of the most delightful and sensual music ever written.
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble brings you a fun, frivolous and feisty program of music to celebrate Halloween.
Take a sentimental journey through the songs and times of Gilbert and Sullivan, those two venerable writers of cabaret who took centre stage when Queen Victoria ruled the empire.