Jeonghwan Kim matches power with pathos in Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with Mark Coughlan and OpusWA Arts Orchestra at Government House.
David Cusworth
Romanian-born Alexandra Dariescu’s account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 ‘Elvira Madigan’ graces Perth Concert Hall with Fabien Gabel and WA Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor Jessica Gethin and her guitarist father Ray Walker are gearing up to perform their third James Bond film in concert together with WA Symphony Orchestra — Spectre In Concert.
Tanya MacNaughton
Musica Viva Australia’s 2025 program celebrates refugees from World War II whose traditions of chamber music resonate in the foundation’s 80th season.
Heartbreak High star and proud Kamilaroi man Thomas Weatherall’s monologue Blue is one of six productions announced in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s tantalising 2025 season, programmed by Kate Champion.
Albany artist Merry Robertson has spent her life creating art to capture the uniqueness of Australia’s native flora and fauna.
Georgia Campion
Explorations of country, physical and spiritual, launched Queensland’s William Barton and Ensemble Q on a national tour for Musica Viva at Perth Concert Hall.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s world premiere of Bruce Denny’s play Operation Boomerang is not just an uplifting family yarn about living on your own terms, but dying on your own terms too.
Wrangling showgirls, glitter and a tonne of paperwork is all part of the job description for Perth International Burlesque Festival director Jessica Gough.
Ellis Pearson is a recent addition to the Denmark art scene and Southern Arts and Craft Trail after moving from his Roebuck Bay home in the Kimberly to the Great Southern.
Frank Sultana returns to WA for the Blues at Bridgetown festival this year following shows in East Fremantle and Bunbury.
Anjelica Smilovitis
The 24th Southern Art and Craft Trail was officially opened on September 18 at the Albany Hilton Garden Inn in a celebration of the Great Southern’s creative community.
Queensland composer-didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton tells the story of his Kalkadunga heritage with quiet conviction and assured artistry, with Ensemble Q at Perth Concert Hall.
Violinist-composer Ellie Malonzo breaks with tradition in a violin-viola concerto premiere with teacher Paul Wright and Fremantle Chamber Orchestra.
Fringe World comedy and cabaret favourite Reuben Kaye is returning to Perth, the bold and brash queer performer’s magnetic stage presence landing him the royal role of King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Green make-up, a fat suit and facial prosthetics all go into the process of turning performer Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell into the title character of Shrek The Musical, and he would not have it any other way.
Adelaide-based performer Stephen Noonan relishes creating and performing children’s theatre for an incredibly specific age group, doing just that with The Boy and The Ball at AWESOME Festival 2024.
A Tom Price artist has claimed two major awards at the prestigious Lester Prize for her striking portrait of a local Elder painted on a delicate canvas of paperbark.
Katya Minns
Australia's first women's refuge has been awarded heritage honours 50 years after it was founded by journalist Anne Summers and other activists.
Rachael Ward
Epic and intimate, the best of both worlds will be presented at EverNow festival 2024, a program of three special free events to reconnect with country during Kambarang, the Noongar season of birth and renewal.
Denmark artist Seirah Woodward will bring her abstract twist on the natural environment to the 2024 Southern Art & Craft Trail.
Entrepreneurial Perth pianist James Dekleva joins two young WA Symphony Orchestra musicians in trios by Schubert and Dvorak at Trinity College.
The Northbridge home to the State’s cultural treasures is about to get much-needed shade and greenery, with the Cook Government admitting it is being shunned and ‘an awful place to visit’ mid-summer.
Rebecca Le May
Singing a new composition to Nicola Bulgari, grandson of Sotirio Bulgari who founded luxury brand Bvlgari, is not the first time Sorrento-raised soprano Elena Perroni has performed for a billionaire.
