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Kevin Parker has run in with Dockers star mid-concert pee

Two lots of confetti blasts, a mid-show pee break and a Docker stand-off, old classics and newer, TikTok-trendier tunes. Tame Impala’s first Perth show had almost everything.

Zach Margolius

WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch take a bow for Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical liveTour de force 12 years in the making

WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch stage triumphant return to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Winthrop Hall.

David Cusworth

WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

World premiereMagisterial mastery and fanfaric splendour

Fisch, Smith and WASO rock Winthrop Hall with Copland, Ledger and Rachmaninov.

David Cusworth

Asher Fisch conducts the WA Symphony Orchestra at Winthrop Hall.

Classical liveJoyous celebration for new season

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy sets the tone for WA Symphony Orchestra program in 2027.

David Cusworth

WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch play a rousing encore of Freo, Way To Go at Heath Ledger Theatre on Thursday.

Classical livePassion and despair drive Romantic expression

West meets East with WA Symphony Orchestra, Asher Fisch in Puccini-Tchaikovsky matinee at Heath Ledger Theatre.

David Cusworth

Hattie Marshal as Blanche and Kohsei Gilkes as Mitch in Freeze Frame Opera's A Streetcar Named Desire.

Opera liveGritty drama of old-New Orleans set to song

Freeze Frame Opera rocks Liberty Theatre with Andre Previn’s setting of A Streetcar Named Desire.

David Cusworth

Naya Chorale tenors and basses take centre stage for Music on the Terrace at Government House Ballroom on Sunday.

Choral liveA-cappella choir rings true at Government House

Eclectic inputs and energetic output mark Naya Chorale’s debut for Music on the Terrace.

David Cusworth

Adrian Soares, Stephanie Thyer, Erin Bussanich, David Woods and Keaton Staszewski-Hose present Games of Love and Chance at Dalkeith Road Church of Christ on Saturday.

Choral liveLove and chance in play with Schumann and Brahms

Two composers with a shared romantic interest inspire Giovanni Consort’s recital at South Perth and Nedlands.

David Cusworth

WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch take a bow at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical livePremiumMesmeric technique illuminates breakout masterpiece

Konstantin Shamray holds Winthrop Hall enthralled through Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with WA Symphony Orchestra and conductor Asher Fisch

David Cusworth

Soprano Prudence Sanders, alto Fiona Campbell, tenor Kohsei Gilkes and baritone James Clayton lead Chorus Oz Perth in last year's performance of Mozart's Requiem with Perth Symphony Orchestra at the State Theatre Centre.

Classical liveMedieval mayhem among the hallowed halls

ChorusOZ and Perth Symphony Orchestra bring Carl Orff’s choral epic Carmina Burana to UWA on AFL Grand Final day.

David Cusworth

Eleanor Lyons as Tatyana and Samuel Dundas as Eugene Onegin for WA Opera at His Majesty's Theatre.

Opera liveMoving music and drama in Eugene Onegin

Dilettante in life and love gets comeuppance in Tchaikovsky’s take on Pushkin’s tale with WA Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre.

David Cusworth

Hannah Lee Tungate performs at Sapphic Serenade in 2024.

RecognitionArt Music Awards celebrate diversity

Tenth Muse Initiative founder Hannah Lee Tungate named WA Luminary for 2026.

David Cusworth

Ellie Malonzo plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra and conductor Paul Wright.

Classical liveTeen star shines in Sibelius Violin Concerto

Ellie Malonzo returns to Perth Modern School with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra and maestro Paul Wright.

David Cusworth

Pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and WA Symphony Orchestra at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical livePassion and panache in ‘Farewell’ Piano Concerto

Tamara-Anna Cislowska and WA Symphony Orchestra bring Elena Kats-Chernin’s eulogy for Maria Barbara Bach to Winthrop Hall.

David Cusworth

Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and lutenist Thomas Dunford on tour.

Classical liveCello and lute like ‘playing with your sister’

Lutenist Thomas Dunford and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt find affinity in French heritage on Musica Viva national tour.

David Cusworth

Trio Mediaeval’s Ditte Maria Braein, Jorunn Lovise Husan and Anna Maria Friman on tour with trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Australian Chamber Orchestra in From Winter’s Stillness.

Classical liveScandi chic in smorgasbord of strings and song

Australian Chamber Orchestra’s seasonal offering, From Winter’s Stillness, on tour at UWA Winthrop Hall.

David Cusworth

Cygnus Arioso present Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings at Hale School Auditorium.

Classical liveFirst rehearsal to concert in one day

Cygnus Arioso string ensemble shares the process of performance at Hale School Auditorium.

David Cusworth

Ellie Malonzo plays Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Vienna Pops Orchestra conducted by Mark Coughlan on New Year's Eve 2024.

Classical livePerth prodigy’s fundraising appeal

Violinist and composer Ellie Malonzo, 16, heading to London’s Guildhall School of Music in September and needs your help.

David Cusworth

Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek on tour for Musica Viva in The Fairy's Kiss

Classical liveWar clouds frame dramatic repertoire

Violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek ignite Subiaco’s Regal Theatre for Musica Viva.

David Cusworth

Anja Bihlmaier conducts WA Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical livePremiumMajestic Mendelssohn fills Winthrop Hall

Assured tone and execution make easy listening with violinist Benjamin Beilman, conductor Anja Bihlmaier and WA Symphony Orchestra.

David Cusworth

Doric String Quartet violinists Maia Cabeza and Ying Xue, clarinettist Lloyd Van't Hoff, violist Emma Wernig and cellist John Myerscough play on tour for Musica Viva.

Classical livePremiumClarinet antics add gloss to strings

Lloyd Van’t Hoff and Doric String Quartet on tour with Musica Viva at Subiaco’s Regal Theatre.

David Cusworth

Cellist Ivan Karizna plays an encore of Giovanni Sollima’s Lamentatio at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical livePremiumKarizna charisma ignites Winthrop Hall

Cellist and WA Symphony Orchestra radiate romance with Schumann and Brahms at Winthrop Hall.

David Cusworth

Madeleine Hammond takes a bow for WASO's Composition Project at Studio Underground.

Classical livePremiumFive find fame in Composition Project

Chamber ensemble premieres young composers’ work at Studio Underground for WA Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Project.

David Cusworth

Giuseppe Fausto Modugno and Elyane Laussade in Piano Fortissimo at WA Museum Boola Bardip Hackett Hall.

Classical livePremiumPiano Fortissimo meets Otto the whale

Music on the Terrace moves to WA Museum Boola Bardip during roof repairs at Government House.

David Cusworth