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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.