Past Programs & Flyers

11 March | Tubby the Tuba | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Presenter: Lee Stanley | Soloist: Steve Harmer (Tuba) | Strauss: Zarathustra Fanfare | Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf | Kleinsinger & Tripp: Tubby the Tuba

28 May | Landscapes | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Yoon Sen Lee (Piano) | Sculthorpe: Kakadu | Sibelius: Finlandia | Falla: Nights in the Garden of Spain | Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketces

2 July | Winter Warmer No.1 | Program

Conductor: Kate McNamara | Soloist: Tina Algeri (Piano) | Mozart: Serenade No.10 ‘Gran Partita’ | Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2

27 August | Winter Warmer No.2 | Program

Conductor: Bruce Herriman | Pye: Serenade for Winds | Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings in E flat major

19 November | The Spider’s Feast | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture | Bucalossi: The Grasshopper’s Dance | Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumblebee | Roussel: The Spider’s Feast | Shostakovich: The Gadfly

27 Feb | Preludes (Informal Social Performance)

Conductor: David Pye | Wagner - Prelude to Der Meistersingers | Elgar - Cockaigne Overture | Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

30 April | The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

Conductor: Kris Bowtell with UWACS | Pye - Threnody | Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

3 July | A Classical Romance | Program

Conductor: Elise Chong | Soloist: Marshall Read (violin) | Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Haydn |Schumann - Symphony no. 2 | Schubert - Rondo in A major D.438 for violin and orchestra | Brahms - Hungarian Dance No 6

14 Aug | Winter Warmer | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloists: Michael Hodgkins (clarinet), Renee Ng (harp), Sarah Brien (horn) | Pye - Serenade | Mozart - Clarinet Concerto K622, Adagio | Bach -Trombone Quartets | Handel - Harp Concerto in B flat | Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat K447

4 Sept | Piano Concerti! | Program

Conductors: Sarah Mills Menogue, Kate McNamara, Sara Duhig | Pianists: Jason Yuen, Sidney Eric, Nicole Li, Hannah Wang | Mozart - Piano Concerto in A major K488 | Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor | Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16

27 Nov | Grandeur | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Pianist: Lawrence Ng | Verdi - Nabucco Sinfonia | Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor | Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major

28 February | Yr 11&12 ATAR Music Workshop

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Bach - Concerto for two violins in D minor (movts. 1 & 2) Mozart - Symphony No. 41 (movt. 1) | Beethoven - Piano concerto No. 3 (movt. 1) | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 (movt. 1)

23 May | From the New World | Program

Conductor: Craig Dalton | Dvorak – Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the new world) | Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin | Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina: Dawn on the Moskva River

20 June | Winter Warmers Concert 1 : Serenades | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Dukas: Fanfare - La Peri (brass) | Dvorak: Serenade for winds | Dvorak: Serenade for Strings

25 July | Winter Warmers Concert 2 : Old Wine in New Bottles | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Jacob - Old wine in new bottles (winds) | Beethoven - Rage for a lost penny (winds) | Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (strings) | Giazzotti -Adagio in G minor [Albinoni] (brass) | Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (brass) | Borodin - Polotsvian Dances (winds)

29 August | Winter Warmers Concert 3 : Cheers! 60th Birthday Celebration | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Melissa Fitzgerald (guitar) | Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man | Rimsky Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol | Boccherini - Fandango for guitar, strings & percussion G.448 | Villa Lobos - Concerto for guitar & small orchestra | Pye - Cheers!

21 November | From Hamburg to New York | Program

Conductor: Dale Pointon | Soloist: Matthew Styles (saxophone) | Strauss - Serenade for Winds | Molinelli - Four pictures from New York for saxophone & orchestra| Brahms - Symphony No. 4

1 Mar | Yr 11&12 Atar Workshop

Conductor: Alan Lourens

23 Sept | Mahler No. 4 (Informal Open-Rehearsal Performance)

Conductor: David Pye | Soprano: Eva Marie Perissinotto

7 Oct | Saveloy Orchestra | Flyer

28 Nov 2020 | Beethoven With Bubbles | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloists: Nicole Li & Kylie Michael (piano) | Symphony no. 5 (1st movt) | Symphony no. 7 (2nd movt) | Piano Concerto no.3 (1st movt) | Coriolan Overture | Turkish March “Ruins of Athens” | Moonlight Sonata | Symphony no. 5 (4th movt)

3 Mar | Yr 11&12 Atar Workshop

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Soloists: Shuan Hern Lee (piano), Yoon Sen Lee (Harpsichord), Jocelyn Cullingford (violin), Sandra Vaughan (violin), Jenny Lourens (Flute) | Excerpts from: Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 | Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D Major - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37- 1st movement | Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major

11 May | Brahms Requiem

Conductor: Kristin Bowtell with UWACS

29 Sept | The Edge of Forgetting

Conductor: Dr Paul DeCinque | Soloists: Akiko Miyazawa & Ben Caddy | Skipworth - The Edge of Forgetting | Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola | Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major

24 Nov | Tempest | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Xiaosong Liu (piano) | Smetana - Moldau from Ma Vlast | Holdworth - Gage Roads | Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes | Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

25 Feb | Yr 11&12 Atar Workshop

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Haydn - Symphony No 104 ‘London’ mvts 1 & 3 | Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, mvts 4 & 5 | Bach - Branberg Concerto No.5 | Ravel Piano Concerto in G major

10 Jun | Witches & Wizards | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Peter Havlat (flute) | Mozart – Flute concerto in D | Mussorgsky – Night on Bare Mountain | Saint Saens – Danse Macabre | Williams – Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone | Williams – Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkhaban | Berlioz – Witches Sabbath from Symphony Fantastique | Greig – In the Hall of the Mountain King

23 Sept | Resurrection (Albany Entertainment Centre)

Conductor: David Pye | Mahler Symphony No.2

25 Nov | Masterworks

Conductor: Robert Braham | Soloists: Louise McKay (cello) & Margaret Blades (violin) | Brahms – Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor| Mozart – Serenade No 10 Gran Partita K361

26 February | Yr 11&12 Atar Workshop

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Haydn - Symphony No 104 ‘London’ mvts 1 & 3 | Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, mvts 4 & 5 | Beethoven - Symphony No 5, mvts 1, 3 & 4 | Prokofiev - Symphony No 1, mvt 3

2 June | Fremantle Heritage Festival

Conductor: Alan Lourens | With Perth Scottish Fiddlers | Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture | Prokofiev - Symphony No.1 ‘Symphonie Classique’

4 June

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Soloist: Shuan Hern Lee (piano) | Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2 | Prokofiev - Symphony No.1 ‘Symphonie Classique’

27 August | The Solar System

Conductor: David Pye | Mozart - No.41 (Jupiter) | Holst - The Planets Suite

26 November | Scottish Fantasy

Conductor: Dale Pointon | Solost: Emmalena Huning (Violin) | Tchaikovsky - Romeo & Juliet Overture | Bruch - Scottish Fantasy for Violin | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5

10 April | Autumn

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Margaret Blades (Violin) | Greig - Overture In Autumn | Kosma [Arr. Pye] – Autumn Leaves| Vivaldi – Autumn from the Four Seasons | Bliss – Adam Zero

19 June | Winter

Conductor: Kevin Gillam | Vivaldi – Winter from Four seasons| Tchaikovsky – The Seasons | Tchaikovsky – Selections from Symphony No 1 (Winter Dreams)

11 Sept | Spring

Conductor: David Pye | Copland – Appalachian Spring | Vivaldi – Spring from the four seasons | Pye / Gillam – The Seasons

11 December | Summer

Conductor: Jessica Gethin | Prokofiev– Summer Day Op 65 | Vivaldi – Summer from the Four Seasons | Glazunov – The Seasons

18 April | Canning Canning Festival - Gallipoli Voices

Conductor: Chris Van Tuinen with UWACS | Kelly - Elegy for Strings | Sculthorpe - Small Town | Pye -Threnody [world premiere] | Alford - Colonel Bogey’s March | Rey - Turkey Suite

5 July | Cello & Guitar | Program

Conductor: Richie Burton | Soloists: Louise McKay (cello), Duncan Gardiner (guitar) & Setsu Masuda (piano) | Gardiner - Tango Suite & Three Songs of Sadness | Dvorak - Cello Concerto in B minor | Beethoven No.2

27 Sept

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Eva-Marie Middleton (soprano) | Koehne - Tivoli Dances | Strauss - Four Last Songs | Sibelius - En Saga | Sibelius - Finlandia

13 Dec | Sorcerer & Saxophone

Conductor: Bruce Herriman | Soloist: David Gioia (saxophone) | Dukas - La Peri Fanfare & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Faure - Pavane | Glazunov - Concerto for Saxophone & Strings | Franck - Symphony in D minor

1 Feb | Canning World Arts Exchange

Conductor: Chris Van Tuinen with UWACS | Tao Issaro - percussion processional | Devissaro - Ahuti | Devissaro - Ragamala | Glass - Satyagraha Act 2 | Ginastera - Estancia, movt 4 Malumbo

4 May | Firebird & Dragon

Conductor: Christopher Dragon | Soloist: Caitlin Cassidy (mezzo soprano) | Ravel - Mother Goose Suite | Elgar - Sea Pictures | Humperdinck - Hansel & Gretel Overture | Stravinsky - Firebird Suite

10 Aug | Joyous Brahms

Conductor: Jon Tooby | Soloist: Riley Skevington (violin) | Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Overture | Bruch - Scottish Fantasy | Brahms - Symphony No.2

23 Nov | Romantic Powerhouse | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Roland Brand (piano) | C. Ramirez - Overture, Silence Impressions | Beethoven - Concerto No.5 for Piano | Tchaikovsky - No.6 “Pathétique”

3 Feb | Canning World Arts Exchange

Conductor: Chris Van Tuinen (with UWACS) | Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (excerpts) | Geronimo Gimenez - La Boda de Luis Alonso | Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol | Gorecki Third Symphony | Bizet - Farandole, L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2

26 May | In The Basilica

Conductor: David Pye | Ross Edwards - No.1 | Arvo Part - Cantus in Memorium Benjamin Britten | Bach-Stokowski - Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor | Wagner - Prelude to Act 1 from Parsifal | David Pye - The Bumpkin Calculus of Time

25 Aug

Conductor: Jessica Gethin | Soloist: Simon Frosi (piano) | Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2 | Beethoven - Symphony No.7

24 Nov | Concert Fantastique

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Soloist: Michael Hodgkins | Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique | Pie - Fantasy for Clarinet & Orchestra | Wagner - Overture Act 3 Lohengrin

29 April | Verdi Requiem

Conductor: Christopher Van Tuinen with UWACS

29 July

Conductor: David Pye | Beethoven - No. 8 | Richard Strauss - Serenade for Winds | Tomasi - Fanfares Liturgiques | Delius - On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

11 Nov | Program

Conductor: Jon Tooby | Soloist: Alexandra Isted (violin) | Shostakovich No.5 | Wagner - Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 | Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy | Wagner - Träume

20 Feb | Classical Kids Cushion Concerts @ Leckie Pavilion

Conductor: David Pye | Presenter: Danielle Joynt | Includes: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an exhibition | Kabalevsky – Comedians Galop | Sullivan/Mackerras – Pineapple Poll

5 Jun | Resurrection

Conductor: David Pye with UWACS | Mahler - Symphony No.2

11 Sept

Conductor: Jessica Gethin | Soloist: Matt Hinchliffe (saxophone) | Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Debussy - Prelude a l’apres-mid d’un Faune | Liszt - Les Preludes Symphonic Poem No.3 | Tomasi - Saxophone Concerto | Bax - Tintagel

11 Dec | Celebrating 50 Years | Program

Conductors: Peter Moore & David Pye : Bartok - Concerto fro Orchestra | Pye - Quinquaginta

7 March | Freo Toddler Proms | Program |

Conductor: David Pye | Presenter: Danielle Joynt

20 June

Conductor: Robert Brahman | Soloist: Sean Woodcock (piano) | Franck - Le Chasseur Maudit | Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.1 | Beethoven Symphony No.5

12 Sept

Conductor: Alan Lourens | Soloists: Rod McGrath (cello), Giovani Pasini (viola) | Richard Strauss - Don Quixote | Britten - Simple Symphony | Stravinsky - Symphonies for Winds

12 Dec

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Roland Brand (piano) | Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 | Schubert - Symphony No.5 | Wise - Premiere Adagio, Symphony No.1 | Humperdinck - Overture, Hansel & Gretel

15 Mar | Freo Family Proms (x3)

Conductor: David Pye | Included: Carroll - Bushfire Dreaming | Pachelbel’s Canon | Strauss - Thus Spake Zarathustra

7 June

Conductor: Geoff Lowe | Beethoven - No.3 “Eroica” | Bach - Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins | Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture

6 & 13 Sept | The Warriors | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite | Pye - Cicadan Rhtyms

29 Nov

Conductor: Jessica Gethin | Soloist: Kathy Chow (piano) | Dvorak - Symphony No.8 | Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2 | Brahms - Academic Festival Overture

9 Mar | Freo Family Proms

Conductor: David Pye Soloists: Michael Hodgkins (clarinet), Jocelyn Cullingford (violin), Richard Isted (violin) | Offenbach - Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld | Bach Concerto for Two Violins (slow movement) | Pye - Fantasy for Clarinet & Orchestra | Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavellaria Rusticana | Tchaikowsky - 1812 Overture

1 June |

Conductor: Bruce Herriman | Soloist: Bronwyn Wallis (harp) | Wagner - Prelude to Act 1, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg | Debussy - Sacred and Profane Dances | Dvorak - Slavonic Dances | Brahms - Symphony No.1

24 Aug | Master & Apprentice

Conductor: Lawrence Jacks Soloist: Kathryn McKay (viola) | Iain Grandage - Deep | Bartok - Viola Concerto | Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.2

7 Dec | Enigma

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Dominic Perissinotto (pipe organ) | Pye - Manual Dexterity | Poulenc - Concerto for Organ in G minor | Dupre “Sinfonia” from Cantate No.29 | Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme “Enigma”

10 June | 150 Years

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Natalie Dixon (flute) | Beethoven - Coriolan Overture | Chaminade - Concertino for flute | Elgar - Symphony 1

26 Aug

Conductor: Warrick Potter | Weber - Oberon Overture | Elgar - Chanson De Matin, Chanson de Nuit, Salut d’Amour | Sibelius - Karelia Suite | Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 “Italian”

7 Dec

Conductor: Geoffrey Lowe | Soloist: Sara Herriman (violin) | Iain Grandage - Out of Time | Mozart - Violin Concerto No.5 “Turkish” | Beethoven - Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”

7 May | Mozart + Haydn = Beethoven | Program

Conductor: Alan Bonds | Soloist: Jessica Ipkendanz (violin) | Mozart - Overture, Don Giovani | Haydn - No.49 ‘La Passione’ | Beethoven - Violin Concerto

3 Sept | Spring | Program

Conductors: David Pye & Jessica Gethin | Soloists: Leanne Glover (oboe), Jessica Gethin (violin) | Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring | Vivaldi - ‘Spring’ from The Four Seasons | Pye - Oboe Concerto

26 Nov | Four Seasons in a Day

Conductor: Burhan Guner | Mendelssohn - A Midsummers Night Dream | Glazunov - L’Automne from The Seasons Ballet Suite | Tchaikovsky No.1

12 June | Violin Magic

Conductor: Alan Bonds | Soloist: Anna O’Hagan (violin) | Mozart - Symphony No.38 ‘Prague’ | Bartok - Rumanian Folk Dances| Barber Violin Concerto | Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite

28 Aug

Conductor: David Pye | with The Robert Schumann Ensemble| Verdi - Overture La Forza del Destino | Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances | Bethoven - Triple Concerto for Violin, cello & piano

4 Dec | Symphony by the Sea

Conductor: Lawrence Jacks | Soloists: Deborah Ng (piano) & Rod McGrath (cello) | Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture | Greig - Piano Concerto | Benjamin Britten - Symphony for Cello & Orchestra

5 Sept | From The New World | Program

Conductor: Lawrence Jacks | Soloist: Penelope Reynolds (soprano) | Beethoven - Egmont Overture | Mozart - Exsultate Jubilate | Dvorak - No.9

5 Dec | Strictly Romantic | Program

Conductors: Jessica Gethin | Tom O’Halloran | Geoffrey Lowe | Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3 | Liszt - Les Preludes | Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4

13 April

Conductor: Bruce Herriman | Soloist: Erin Chen (violin) | Smetana - Overture: The Bartered Bride | Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.1

14 Sept | Great Romantics | Program

Soloist: Lawrence Jacks | Soloists: Stephanie Dean (violin) & Jon Tooby (cello) | Brahms - Concerto for Violin & Cello | Tchaikovsky - No.4

29 June | Divine Inspirations | Program

Conductor: David Pye | Soloist: Louise McKay (cello) | Moreno - Triumphal March | Sculthorpe - New Norcia Suite | Bocherini - Louise McKay | Bruckner - No. 4 ‘The Romantic’

15 Sept | Old Masters | Program

Conductor: Chris Sears | Soloist: Kylie Liang (violin) | Verdi - Nabucco Overture | Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto | Dvorak - No.7

1 Dec | Seascapes | Program

Conductor: Chris Sears | Soloist: Sarah-Janet Dougiamas (contralto)| Bill Stewart - Fanfare | Elgar - Sea Pictures | Wagner - Flying Dutchman Overture | Frank Bridge - The Sea | Jeff Harding - Our Treasure