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Freya Petersen - Somerville Auditorium, UWAThe exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers. In 2013 UWA celebrates 100 years of excellence with four outstanding orchestral concerts featuring Western Australia’s best young musicians.

In 2013, the series will feature:

  1. Artistry! Sensation
  2. Artistry! Collaboration
  3. Artistry! Innovation
  4. Artistry! Culmination

Ticketing

  • Standard $25
  • Friends of UWA School of Music $20
  • Concession $20

Artistry! Sensation


Opening the season, conductor and virtuoso violinist Paul Wright conducts a program affected by classical sensibilities featuring some of the period’s best-loved works.

Grainger Duke of Marlborough Fanfare
Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
Bach Violin Concerto in E Major (Soloist: Paul Wright)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 Classical

Date and time

  • Friday 19 April 2013 - 7.30pm

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Artistry! Collaboration

In celebration of the University’s centenary, UWA School of Music joins with UWA Choral Society for an extravagant evening of sound. As part of the celebration, an orchestra of over 170 will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on it’s 100th anniversary before being joined on stage by the combined forces of the UWA Symphonic Chorus, UWA Choral Society and soloists for the exuberant Rachmaninoff composition, The Bells. This is a concert of epic proportions.

 

Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Rachmaninoff The Bells, Op.35

Date and time

  • Sunday 26 May 2013 - 3.00pm

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Artistry! Innovation

Be part of this special performance featuring Australia’s own mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup, who returns to Perth as part of a unique UWA Artist in Residency program. Based in Vienna, Caitlin has appeared at leading opera houses including Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Royal Opera House London and Bayerisches Staatsoper.
In this concert she joins the UWA Symphony Orchestra in the magnificent acoustic of St Mary’s Cathedral who partner with UWA in this performance.

“Caitlin Hulcup deserved highest praise. Her stage presence is radiant, her voice rich-toned and flexible. She detonates her vocal fireworks with brilliance and deserved her rapturous applause” Fiona Maddox, Evening Standard

Tallis Third Tune (performed by The Winthrop Singers)
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia (performed by The Winthrop Singers)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder

Date and time

  • Friday 23 August 2013 - 7.30pm

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Artistry 4! Culmination

Every year, the outstanding ability and youthful passion of the emerging artists and their mentors combine to celebrate the culmination of a year long collaboration. Under the baton of Head of School and resident conductor, Dr Alan Lourens, three young artists perform a movement of their chosen concerto onstage with orchestra in the finals of the prestigious VOSE competition. In the interval, vote in the People’s Choice Award for your favourite performance before immersing in the magnificence of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
VOSE Concerto Movements

Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op 67

Date and time

  • Saturday 19 October 2013 - 7.30pm

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