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

The Darlington Quartet joins WAAPA’s marvellous new Head of Piano, Tonya Lemoh, to play Shostakovich’s multi-faceted Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 and Mendelssohn’s radiant String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12.

Expect a magical night of music under the stars, with reimagined arrangements of songs you know and love, as well as original works written and arranged collaboratively by the Jazz and Contemporary Music students.

Join us for a free concert in The Music Box as WAAPA's 3rd Year Contemporary Music ensembles showcase their talents in a relaxed and intimate setting.

Experience the inspiring music of award-winning duo Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse performing with WAAPA's Contemporary Music students, as they celebrate the beauty of the Noongar language through contemporary songs.

Renowned for his exceptional talent as a jazz bassist, the multi-award winning Jonathan Zwartz performs music that blends melodic sophistication and rhythmic depth, resonating with both jazz aficionados and newcomers alike.

Join us for an exquisite program of lieder! WAAPA’s Classical Voice and Piano students perform excerpts from three beautiful song cycles by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann.

Enjoy a passionate multimedia experience featuring star percussionist Pavan Kumar Hari, then Defying Gravity fires up the groove in Frank Zappa's legendary work The Black Page.

In this darkly comic tale time unfolds in reverse, exposing the depths of social inequality and community decay. Tom Fowler’s gripping narrative reveals one town’s tragic spiral under the weight of systemic neglect.

In Laura Wade’s bold and playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, The Watsons dips beneath the surface to imagine what might have happened. The result is clever, playful and very funny.

With its upbeat pop-rock score, Freaky Friday is a clever, funny, heart-warming musical in which a mother and daughter learn what it literally means to walk in someone else’s shoes.

Sydney-based saxophone virtuoso and composer Nick Russoniello joins the WAAPA Sax Studio’s ‘Phone Co. to present a concert where instrumental virtuosity, lyricism and groove come together for a powerful musical experience.

Join visiting artist Nick Russoniello, Matt Styles, and WAAPA's Classical and Jazz sax students for the closing concert of the WAAPA Sax Festival.

A Book of Hours is a revelatory screen-dance presentation that features stop-motion film created by visual artist Sal Cooper, together with on-stage and filmed choreography by Gerard Van Dyck, and a live classical contemporary soundtrack performed by the Melbourne-based Rubiks Collective.

Join us for a free lunchtime concert in WAAPA's outdoor Amphitheatre to celebrate International Jazz Day. A short, sharp, midday musical interlude to jazz up your mid-week!

Romance fills the stage! Rachmaninov’s achingly beautiful Piano Concerto No. 2 is performed by the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra with the award-winning pianist Joshua Noronha, then Australia's most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews performs music from Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin’s ravishing Wild Swans Suite.

Come behind the scenes at WAAPA! ECU's Open Day at the Mount Lawley campus gives you the perfect opportunity to see our talented students in action in rehearsals, classes and short concerts.

WAAPA’s String Camerata and the Darlington Quartet present Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op.40 and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, masterfully adapted for string orchestra by Rudolf Barshai.

This program of choral music performed in the magnificent St Mary's Cathedral features masterpieces from the so-called English Musical Renaissance.

Prepare for a night of extraordinary musicality as Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana graces the stage with WAAPA’s Jazz students.

Join the dynamic voices of the WAAPA Contemporary Choir for an electrifying evening of modern music and high-energy performances!

Be spellbound, moved and uplifted as WAAPA's student pianists share their artistry to bring you into the inner world of Frederick Chopin.

Join the Composition and Sonic Arts students for a showcase of outstanding new works for acoustic and electronic instruments created by our composers and composer/performers.

Join us at the Rosemount Hotel for an unforgettable showcase featuring the talented Contemporary Music students.

WAAPA proudly presents an exciting showcase of the rising talent of the Western Australian jazz world.

Enjoy an evening of powerful music as WAAPA’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble explores the rich traditions of music for winds while pushing the boundaries of modern sound.

Echogreen is a dynamic program of two dance works by choreographers Tara Gower and Evgenia Plotkin Mikhailov reminding us of the deep, intrinsic bond we share with nature.

Join us in a celebration of 'estudiantinas', a popular world-wide phenomenon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as WAAPA’s Plectra Guitar Ensemble and guitar soloists explore a range of treasured favourites and re-discovered rarities.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience a rich cross-section of jazz in one fabulous show!

Known in his day as the English Mozart, child prodigy Samuel Wesley was the leading composer and keyboard player of the late Georgian era. This program, featuring instruments from WAAPA’s historical keyboard collection, showcases Australian and world premieres of Wesley’s music.

Students from Composition and Sonic Arts present works featuring the voice in its many rich and varied forms.

Join us for a free concert in The Edith Spiegeltent as WAAPA's 2nd Year Contemporary Music ensembles showcase their talents in a relaxed and intimate setting.

Fresh from the success of their recent CD release The World in a Single Grain, the Silver Sands Guitar Quartet showcases new commissions blending classical technique and contemporary popular idioms.

Raw and confronting, Punk Rock taps into the rage and rebellion simmering just underneath the surface of young people on the brink of adulthood.

Rise 2025 is a season of four dance works showcasing WAAPA's Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance students.

Nina Raine's powerful, painful, funny play sifts the evidence in a sexual assault case from every side and puts Justice herself in the dock.

Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along moves backwards in time, charting the turbulent relationship between three lifelong friends as they navigate success, show business and unbreakable bonds.

Starstruck '25 showcases WAAPA’s Advanced Diploma and Diploma Music Artist students in an exhilarating night of original music delivered by talented acoustic and band-driven ensembles.

WAAPA's Music Artist students showcase their original music for acoustic solos and duos in the intimate setting of The Edith Spiegeltent.

The Darlington Quartet performs the extraordinary String Quartet No. 4 Small and Great Distances by WA composer James Ledger and Mozart’s beautiful String Quartet in E flat major, K. 428.

A richly expressive and thought-provoking piano recital exploring the interplay of opposites, inspired by the great poet T.S. Eliot’s line 'the stillness the dancing' (The Four Quartets).

In this annual showcase of the skills of WAAPA’s graduating class of Classical Music students, six stunning student musicians – one from each instrumental and vocal area – compete for the 2025 Richard Gill Award.

Harnessing the creative and artistic powers of some of the brightest talents in this generation of composers and pianists, WAAPA presents a concert of new works for piano.

As part of a worldwide tour, Italian guitarist Ermanno Brignolo showcases his original compositions that express in musical form the joys and heartache of modern parenthood.

Three-time Grammy nominated saxophonist Troy Roberts returns to his alma mater for a truly special gig with WAAPA’s Jazz students.

Eight magnificent finalists compete for the two Taryn Fiebig Awards for Classical Voice and Music Theatre.

Join us for an exhilarating evening at WAAPA featuring our Diploma, 1st Year and 2nd Year Jazz Ensembles.

In a night of drama and superb musicianship, WAAPA's leading classical soloists join the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra to battle it out in the final of the prestigious 2025 Warana Concerto Competition.

This concert brings together students from both the Jazz and Contemporary courses in a massive ensemble featuring vocals, backing vocals, a six-piece horn section, a string quartet, guitars, bass, keyboards and drums.

Experience this electrifying adaptation of Sophocles' timeless tragedy Antigone, written and directed by Declan Donnellan with design by Nick Ormerod, joint artistic directors of the internationally acclaimed UK theatre company, Cheek by Jowl.

WAAPA's Classical Voice students, accompanied by Tommaso Pollio on piano, present a glorious double bill of opera: Cinderella by Pauline Viardot and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini.

Radio Active Albany is a special, one-off concert by students of Albany Senior High School, Great Southern Grammar and WAAPA’s Contemporary Music program.

Presented by WAAPA and the Ellington Jazz Club, acclaimed Sydney-based trumpeter Tom Avgenicos performs with WAAPA’s rising jazz stars.

Set in 2030, Hibernation by award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer explores a radical solution to climate change: put the entire human population into a year-long sleep to save the planet.

Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, travel back in time to 1985 for this hilarious, feelgood rom-com musical that boasts big song-and-dance numbers and even bigger hair!

The Songbook Sessions is a fabulous celebration of creative original music written and performed by the highly regarded Music Artist students.

WAAPA's 2nd Year Performance Making students collaborate with Alexa Taylor to examine the absurdity of life in a world marked by the constant brinkmanship between despair and hope.

The evocative, haunting soundscapes of French Impressionism, including works by composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Satie and Boulanger, are performed by some of WAAPA’s most brilliant student pianists.

Steven Schick has astonished audiences for decades with his brilliance, innovation, passion and unsurpassed virtuosity. Catch one of the world’s greatest musicians in action, in a spectacular, unique and unforgettable performance.

Join us for a free concert in The Edith Spiegeltent as WAAPA's 1st Year Contemporary Music ensembles showcase their talents in a relaxed and intimate setting.

Get ready to be inspired, provoked and entertained as WAAPA's graduating performance makers hit the stage at full tilt, showcasing their creative talents over two weeks in September.

Join the WAAPA Jazz Vocal Choir for an enchanting evening of Brazilian rhythms and cool jazz, celebrating the smooth sounds of legends like Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Paul Desmond.

Percussion virtuoso Marcus Perrozzi, star of Cirque du Soleil’s hit show Dralion, powers up Defying Gravity with his extraordinary musical skills.

Join us as WAAPA’s guitar students explore a wide range of compelling chamber works from the 19th century until today.

Let WAAPA’s talented Jazz students take you on an innovative jazz journey with two fabulous student jazz ensembles in one unforgettable show.

Join WAAPA’s string students and members of the Darlington Quartet for an intimate evening of musical conversations, discussions and possibly arguments, as they present works from the inexhaustibly rich repertoire of string chamber music.

As part of the Piano Panoply program, this concert features late-Romantic works by Liszt and contemporaries performed on period instruments.

As part of the Piano Panoply program, this concert performed by Dr Tonya Lemoh invites the audience to rediscover Australian musical history with charming songs and poetic solo works from an authentic 1850s piano book.

As part of the Piano Panoply program, this is a modern exploration of piano music, featuring WAAPA's keyboard and composition staff.

As part of the Piano Panoply program, this concert takes you into the world of Jane Austin with music from English early Romantic drawing rooms and pleasure gardens, performed on WAAPA's period instruments.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the WAAPA Gospel Choir with an uplifting evening of powerful voice, joyous harmonies and soulful music.

From Mozart to Martland via Debussy, the Indian Ocean Ensemble and WAAPA's saxophone ensemble, The 'Phone Co., perform an evening of chamber music at its best.

An operatic treasure-trove of arias, ensembles and choruses from the world of grand opera performed in the glamorous setting of Government House Ballroom by the graduating Classical Voice class of 2025 with the marvellous Mark Coughlan as music director.

Join us for a free concert in The Music Box as WAAPA's Diploma of Contemporary Music ensembles showcase their talents in a relaxed and intimate setting.

Award-winning composer, trumpeter and bandleader Ellen Kirkwood performs with the WAAPA Big Band in a concert that’ll blow the roof off the Richard Gill Auditorium!

Acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Ainslie Wills takes to the stage with WAAPA’s Contemporary Music students for an unforgettable concert.

Bold, inventive, and extraordinary! This will be a captivating showcase of fresh music, performed by outstanding students from WAAPA’s Composition and Sonic Arts program program.

A night of celebration and achievement, as WAAPA's top music students receive a glittering series of performance prizes and scholarships.

Get ready for a frightfully fun evening of music and mischief, as the Symphonic Wind Ensemble conjures up a bewitching performance for WAAPA’s final public music concert at the Mount Lawley campus.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE! Tivoli Lovely, a new Australian musical comedy by Eddie Perfect, is a love letter to Australia’s theatrical past. This hilarious black comedy about a Tivoli-conquering dance act, The Eleven Kevins, is a riotous celebration of dance and variety.

Join us in celebrating the talents of WAAPA's 2025 Aboriginal Performance cohort, as they take to the stage in the public performance that marks the finale to their year of training.

The Verge '25 program celebrates the history of all that is WAAPA Dance. It brings together the familiar and the new, to honour our past and to usher in a bright new future in a new building.

The eternal stories of Ovid's Metamorphoses are transformed by three leading British playwrights into a gloriously fun theatrical performance that’s both provocative and hugely entertaining.

Join us for a unique site-based performance across WAAPA that celebrates over 40 years of creativity and community.