WA Youth Orchestra
Be entranced by the sounds of witchery and wizardry, as WAYO performs a collection of mystical masterpieces that will leave you spellbound.
Australian conductor Nicholas Carter, Principal Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, returns to WASO with this romantic tour-de-force.
Seductive melodies and a little magic. Australian conductor Nicholas Carter and award-winning violinist Sergei Dogadin join WASO for this mystical concert.
Amazing performances by musical director and organist Alessandro Pittorino, WA Opera's tenor Paul O'Neill, soprano Naomi Johns, cabaret superstar Cougar Morrison and more.
America’s greatest composer for popular love ballads and Broadway charm is given an intoxicating new life with two of the hottest voices in the world of jazz today, Laura Mvula and José James.
Little ones (and their grown-ups!) are invited to wander through the levels of the Perth Concert Hall and meet our West Australian Symphony Orchestra moo-sicians.
The leading British string quartet of its generation; the Dorics meet every artistic challenge with a captivating blend of sophistication and passion.
Based on the award-winning book series. Join us for a musical adventure with this musical mouse who finds himself at Perth Concert Hall surrounded by WASO musicians and a children’s choir.
Hear orchestral music by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, The National's Bryce Dessner and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens alongside their shared classical music influences.
Irresistible passion and virtuoso acrobatics. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman performs this perennially popular masterpiece with WASO.
Asher Fisch leads a trio of richly melodic works. The great Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with WASO.
The Perth piano community presents a fun-filled afternoon of solos, duets, trios, quartets and more, played on two magnificent Fazioli pianos.
The first in a series of concerts with WASO's Principal Conductor Asher Fisch, this concert explores the evolution of the core of the modern orchestra’s repertoire - the Symphony.
Lauded for his deeply informed and intelligent musicianship, Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk makes his WASO debut with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
Armenian-born cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Estonian conductor Hendrik Vestmann join WASO for a Russian spectacular.
Freedom
This Grammy-award winning group continues to inspire audiences around the world with their powerful blend of African gospel, freedom songs, and international classics.
A world premiere, and the legendary epic tale of Jandamarra Sing for the Country: Ngalanybarra Muwayi.u.
Bring your best voice and party spirit as WASO raises the roof at the Perth Concert Hall with a grand ‘Hurrah’ of flag-waving favourites.
Founded in the fifteenth century, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is arguably the world’s most famous choir and the pre-eminent representative of the British church music tradition.
WASO is joined on stage by some of Australia’s most talented young and emerging artists from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) to bring Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 to life.
After 2017’s hugely successful ‘Animals Tour’, The Pink Floyd Experience returns with a brand new show, in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece, ‘The Wall'.
Live on Stage with 'The Dawn Wall'
Get up close and personal with these two climbers as they share stories of their journey to achieve what many thought was impossible, the world's hardest rock climb: The Dawn Wall.
Lyricism, drama and two favourite guest artists. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes and conductor Simone Young return to WASO with a program of Beethoven and Bruckner.
Live & Acoustic
Fresh on the heels of their North American stadium tour with Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol return to play all your favourites from their classic albums including Run, Open Your Eyes, and Chasing Cars.
Ben Sheen is Associate Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Thomas Fifth Avenue, and winner of the prestigious Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.
Featuring Peter Hook
The group's original bassist Peter Hook, The Metropolitan Orchestra & guests come together to perform the catalogue of one of the world's most celebrated bands.
The Mega Concert
The biggest Elvis concert ever staged anywhere, with an orchestra, choir and singers live on stage! Starring the world’s newest Elvis sensation, Jack Gatto.
Some of Perth’s best voices join forces to present this diverse and engaging musical program at Government House Ballroom.
Kram (Spiderbait), Mark Wilson (Jet), Davey Lane (You Am I) and Darren Middleton (Powderfinger) faithfully and lovingly bring The Beatles' most audacious creation to life on stage.
A ground-breaking, cross-genre musical and visual feast featuring photography by Bill Henson, and music by Lior and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider returns to WASO to perform Elgar’s Violin Concerto on the same extraordinary instrument the great Fritz Kreisler used for the Concerto's premiere over a century ago.
Get ready to rock with Marc Martel, announced by Rolling Stone as one of the three vocals (Freddie Mercury, Marc Martel & Rami Malek) used in the record-breaking biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
WASO's Gala Event with the exceptionally talented soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin. An evening of operatic and vocal masterworks from Beethoven, Strauss, Mahler and Wagner.
In an unmissable trading of places WASO Principal Conductor Asher Fisch and Danish violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider switch roles as Maestro and soloist!
In an unmissable trading of places WASO Principal Conductor Asher Fisch and Danish violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider switch roles as Maestro and soloist!
Welcome to a musical duel between two highly talented, competitive pianists - Andreas Kern vs. Paul Cibis. Touring Australia for the first time, after sold out concerts in Europe, the US and Asia.
In Your Head
A mental health forum for young people! This one-day event provides young people and teachers with a greater understanding of adolescent mental health and practical skills to support their wellbeing.
Perhaps the most celebrated string quartet ever to emerge from the USA, the Emerson String Quartet is making its first Australian tour in over 19 years.
Following two sold-out tours, From Broadway to La Scala returns with a bigger and even more exciting line up including Emma Matthews, David Hobson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and more!
Doyen of the harp and celebrated as one of the world’s leading harpists, Alice Giles performs at Government House Ballroom.
WA Youth Orchestra
Experience the spectrum of orchestral sounds and unforgettable musical imagery, as WAYO presents a dazzling program of celestial proportions.
Inspired by unrequited romantic love, Berlioz’s radical masterpiece Symphonie fantastique is full of passions, dreams and phantoms – a lovesick musician’s hallucinatory fantasies.
Two dream-filled French works frame a world premiere conducted by one of the stars of the new generation, Fabien Gabel.
Another fun-filled night of popular tunes dished up with fabulous food and wine - in the beautiful surrounds of the Government House Ballroom.
Inspired by the ideals of the French revolution and the German Enlightenment, Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony is also a deeply personal statement. This exhilarating and ground-breaking work is a triumph of artistic will over tragic adversity. Vaughan Williams drew inspiration from the musical g...
Early music has rarely sounded as chic or brilliant! The four musicians of French ensemble Nevermind – combining flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord – met and founded their group while they were students in Paris. A breath of fresh air in today’s classical music scene, they are rewri...
Laurence Jackson is a violinist of international renown. After a distinguished career in Europe, he moved to Australia and is currently concertmaster of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Equally at home as a concerto soloist or chamber music player, Laurence has a wide-ranging repertoi...
Bach holds a special place in the heart of every ACO musician. In this program they explore his genius with an impressive line-up featuring Richard Tognetti, Erin Helyard, Brett Dean and ACO Principal Cello, Timo-Veikko Valve. Richard Tognetti’s solo violin opens the program. Its pure, captivating...
Children (and their grown-ups!) will be introduced to the instruments of the orchestra as they clap, sing and dance their way through stories and songs, well-known favourites and famous classics.
Join our disco inferno with singing legend, Kate Ceberano, X Factor finalist Nathaniel Willemse and a sensational Australian cast performing live on stage with WASO.
Children (and their grown-ups!) will be introduced to the instruments of the orchestra as they clap, sing and dance their way through stories and songs, well-known favourites and famous classics.
A new classical supergroup of four leading European soloists, the Skride Piano Quartet is sweeping through the northern hemisphere like a breath of fresh air – and is now bringing its dazzling energy to Australia. Sisters, soloists and regular duo partners, Baiba and Lauma Skride sought out two of...
To hear Perth Concert Hall’s 3000-pipe organ in all its glory is an experience in itself; to hear it in the exhilarating finale of Saint-Saëns’ grandly romantic Third Symphony is completely unforgettable! This spectacular and richly melodic work is brought to life by the exciting young ...
Asher Fisch conducts works originally conceived for keyboard that were transformed by great composers into the orchestral masterpieces we know and love. Be blown away by Stokowski’s spectacular, “Hollywood” version of Bach’s famous Toccata and see how Ravel transformed the raw in...
In this illuminating concert, Principal Conductor Asher Fisch explores how great composers transformed works originally conceived for solo keyboard into the orchestral masterpieces that we know and love. The concert features Leopold Stokowski’s spectacular, “Hollywood” version of Bach...
Since his first appearance with WASO in 1999, Asher Fisch has forged a powerful connection with the Orchestra. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut we go back to where it all began as Asher conducts Verdi’s transcendent and monumental Requiem.Operatic in its earth-shaking intensit...
The cream of WA musicianship, conducted by Artistic Director Joseph Nolan, performs a Christmas favourite. Exquisite soloists sing with the Orchestra of St George and the highly acclaimed St George's Cathedral Consort, to raise your Christmas spirit with the spine-tingling music of Bach.This event i...
