Our 2013 brochure is available to print:
All details are correct at the time of publishing. UWA Music reserves the right to alter without notice programs, performers, dates, times and venues as may become necessary.
The 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:
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
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Rachmaninoff The Bells, Op.35
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
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