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Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Beethoven’s Fifth (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

We now have a new option for the 'O' in WASO, as Asher Fisch and Alexander Gavrylyuk take their audience to new heights.

March 8, 2025
Classical Music, News
news

Conductor Christopher Dragon gets Pops podium

The Perth-born conductor has been named the new music director of Philadelphia’s No Name Pops.

March 7, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Brahms’ Triumph (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

WASO ends its 2024 classical concert season on a towering high.

December 1, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

West Australian Symphony Orchestra 2025: A New World

With the Perth Concert Hall closed for renovations, WASO disperses its music music around the city.

November 28, 2024
News, Opera
news

West Australian Opera in 2025

Puccini, Verdi, Gilbert & Sullivan and a "secret" production slated for WA Opera's 2025 Season.

November 12, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

ANAM announces 2025 program

ANAM 'tunes in' to classical and modern gems in its 2025 season, featuring a string of acclaimed Australian and international guests.

October 23, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Mahler 8 (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

The sonic effect of around 400 musicians successfully grappling with this choral and symphonic colossus was something to behold.

September 15, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Liszt’s Piano Concerto (Lukáš Vondráček & West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

Vondráček thrills; WASO responds in kind; audience thunders applause. And that was before the emotional highpoint of the concert.

September 8, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: The Forgotten Symphony (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

Karen Gomyo's technical assurance and expressive power much in evidence in a concert of music by Debussy, Barber and Franck.

August 24, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Violin Virtuoso (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)

Rich and strange music for an imaginary film leads to Brahms from a different perspective.

July 1, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Ring Cycle (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

WASO serves up a Wagnerian quintuple espresso and a supremely well-crafted world premiere from WA composer Lachlan Skipworth.

June 22, 2024
Classical Music, News
news

Australian conductor to lead US orchestra

Former WASO Assistant Conductor Christopher Dragon adds the Greensboro Symphony to his US portfolio.

June 21, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

Three disparate works which, despite differences in scale and style, beautifully highlight the relationships between soloists and orchestra.

March 9, 2024

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