Simone Young wields her magic Mahler wand to set the SSO’s new season on its way.

Umberto Clerici and Konstantin Shamray team up for an electrifying hour of music from the Roaring Twenties.

Johannes Fritzsch conducts a celebration of Bohemian music, including Smetana's Má vlast, Janáček's Taras Bulba and Brent Grapes' world premiere performance of Nigel Westlake's Trumpet Concerto.

Nigel Westlake discusses his new Trumpet Concerto, written for Brent Grapes and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and reveals that the opening movement was composed in memory of Paul Goodchild.

If ever there was a program to show off the vastly improved acoustic at the SOH Concert Hall, it was this superb concert, featuring French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Petrenko and WASO deliver a blistering, electric performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 11, while Emily Sun brings some show-stopping technique to Mozart.

This concert demonstrated the fantastic collaborative creation possible between a great conductor and orchestra – one wonderfully complemented and enlivened by the spotlighting of four fabulous soloists at the height of their artistic prowess.

This concert of well-loved classics spotlit WA talent, with clarinettist Ashley Smith receiving a rock-star reception from students in the audience, while the orchestra was in fine form.

WASO's performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 was met with rapturous cheers, as was the cheeky farewell to retiring double bassist Andrew Tait.

The all-Russian program showcased the range of WASO's musicianship beautifully.