CELEBRATE!WAAPA salutes ECU’s 30th Anniversary

Tonight’s extravaganza will take us on a rich journey through music, theatre and dance – with some special guests and a few surprises along the way.

2021 is a big year for ECU. We are not only celebrating our 30th anniversary, but also 100 years since our namesake – Edith Dircksey Cowan – became the first woman to be elected to an Australian Parliament.

Edith Cowan dedicated her life to the belief that education was key to growth, change and improvement in society. She was a driving force behind social reform and equality. A woman with a vision.

Inspired by her work, in 1991 ECU was formally established from an amalgamation of former teaching colleges, and WAAPA, which itself had only been established 11 years prior.

Our intent 30 years ago was the same as it is now: to transform lives through education and research. To give our students the knowledge and skills to succeed in their careers and make a positive contribution to their communities.

You only have to look at the WAAPA stars now dotted around the world to see how they have built on their educational experience to achieve excellence in the performing arts.

It’s pleasing to see our approach to education is appreciated by our students. For the sixth year in a row ECU has been ranked the top public university for undergraduate teaching quality, based on the QILT survey of those who should know best: graduates.

This approach is also recognised globally. This year we have again been ranked in the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old in the Times Higher Education Young Universities Rankings.

In celebrating the past 30 years, we also have our sights set firmly on the future. And an exciting driver of this future is the ECU City project.

Part of the Perth City Deal between ECU, the Australian Government and the Western Australian Government, ECU City will deliver Perth a world-class Creative Industries, Business and Technology precinct.

Set to open in 2025, with more than 9,000 students and staff, it will transform the centre of Perth.

ECU City represents the future of university education. It will become part of the lifeblood of Perth’s CBD and inject vibrancy, creativity, culture and community into the heart of our city.

Lastly, I recognise that pulling a gala like this together is no mean feat. I would like to acknowledge this labour of love created by our WAAPA family.

A sincere and heartfelt thank you to the performers, students, staff, alumni, and of course, WAAPA Executive Dean David Shirley, and the Artistic Director of tonight’s show, Brendan Hanson.

I hope you enjoy tonight’s performance.

We are delighted to have you here with us tonight as we celebrate ECU’s 30th anniversary.

Professor Steve Chapman CBE

Vice-Chancellor Edith Cowan University

Welcome from theVICE-CHANCELLOR

It is a great privilege for all of the staff and students at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts to take part in this wonderful celebration to mark the 30th Anniversary of Edith Cowan University. Throughout its history WAAPA has played a central role in identifying and enabling the remarkable talents of world class musicians, actors, dancers, directors, designers and technicians – many of whom enjoy illustrious and highly influential careers across the globe!

Celebrated as one of the world’s most prestigious performing arts academies, there is no doubt that WAAPA’s success is attributable to ECU. Since the establishment of Edith Cowan University in 1991, when WAAPA became part of the institution, the School has gone from strength to strength and our graduates have benefitted from the transformative and highly empowering ethos on which the University’s values are established.

We all know that the challenges of recent years and the consequences of a global pandemic will have significant impacts across many parts of society – including education and the arts. The realisation, however, that WAAPA is the beneficiary of such tremendous support by the University of which it is a part means that we can look to the future with a genuine sense of pride and confidence. The recent announcement of the establishment of an ECU City campus, in which WAAPA will enjoy an integral presence, bears testimony to this recognition.

If the last 30 years are anything to go by, the next phase in the University’s development is likely to be truly extraordinary and I very much look forward to being part of and contributing to the many exciting initiatives and developments that are ahead.

Enjoy tonight’s performance as we proudly celebrate 30 years of ECU and the glorious achievements of this youthful, energetic, and highly dynamic institution.

Professor David Shirley

Executive Dean Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

A very warm welcome to an extraordinary event.

Welcome from theEXECUTIVE DEAN OF WAAPA

Welcome from theARTISTIC DIRECTOR

I am proud to be a WAAPA graduate and ECU alumnus. Having the opportunity to curate a program that celebrates the incredible diversity and commitment of craft and skill of the young artists and their mentors and educators was truly a privilege. It has been like being given a cornucopia of talent and expression and I acknowledge the incredible staff of ECU and WAAPA for supporting me with such grace and goodwill, offering their time and great talent to make this evening a success.

On a personal note I get to come full circle tonight, having commenced my training in 1991 and as a student at WAAPA performing in my professional debut at Perth Concert Hall with the then Dean of the Conservatorium,

Brendan Hanson

Richard Gill in the same year. I acknowledge the incredible artists and educators who inspired me to pursue my passion for storytelling, in particular the late, great John Milson, the then director of the Music Theatre department, and his colleagues, Denis Follington, Derek Bond and Jenny Lynnd.

Tonight’s program is a celebration of perseverance and overcoming. Like our namesake, raising your voice in the face of opposition is challenging and to grow in confidence one needs opportunity. ECU and WAAPA continue to create that opportunity. We raise our voices in chorus tonight and we hope you enjoy our mission of “Be Inspired”.

FeaturedARTISTSNatalie AllenNatalie Allen is an award-winning dancer with an extensive professional career who has collaborated, performed and toured works by many leading choreographers and companies from Australia and around the world, including Leigh Warren, Rafael Bonachela, Gary Stewart and William Forsythe. Since 2013 Natalie’s choreographic work has been presented locally, nationally and internationally. Climacteric, a site-specific solo work, was presented at Contact M1 Festival 2019, Singapore. A Night Out!, a community show reinventing social dance, toured regional WA in 2019. Natalie performed in Sunset, Perth Festival 2019 and later that year joined the cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in Shanghai, China. 2020 saw Natalie choreograph a solo for SLIDE Dance Theatre’s new show, Beam me up, Kate; a new work titled Stained in Crimson for LINK Dance Company; and was the movement director on two plays, Love and Information and The Golem: or, Next Year in Jerusalem. In 2021, Natalie performed in MoveMoveMove at Perth Festival; premiered JULIA, a solo work co-created with Sally Richardson at State Theatre Centre; and is currently choreographing Cabaret for WAAPA’s graduating Music Theatre class. Natalie is a proud graduate of WAAPA’s Dance program.

Clint Bracknell Clint Bracknell is Associate Professor at WAAPA and Kurongkurl Katitjin. His composition/sound design credits include Hecate (Yirra Yaakin/Bell Shakespeare - ‘Best Composition’ 2020 WA Performing Arts Awards), York, The Cherry Orchard, Water, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Black Swan), Skylab (Black Swan/Yirra Yaakin), King Hit (Yirra Yaakin), and The Red Tree (Barking Gecko - nominated for ‘best original score’ 2012 Helpmann Awards). His music has also featured in international advertising campaigns, television series and the feature film, H is For Happiness (2019). Clint’s PhD in Noongar song was awarded UWA’s 2016 Robert Street Prize for most outstanding thesis, he delivered the 2019 Hancock Lecture for the Australian Academy of Humanities and received the 2020 Barrett Award for Australian Studies. Clint established the Contemporary Music program at Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2014-2018) and currently leads an ARC funded research project at ECU.

Jessica GethinAustralian conductor Jessica Gethin has forged an international conducting career working in the United States, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her roster includes conducting the Dallas Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Perth Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic, Macao Orchestra and regular seasons with the West Australian Ballet, crossing genres of symphonic, ballet, opera, film and contemporary. Accolades include being listed in Limelight Australia’s Top Twenty Australian Artists, winner of the Brian Stacey Australian Conductor Award, AFR’s 100 Most Influential Women, a Churchill Fellowship and being named a finalist in the West Australian of the Year Awards. Jessica was founding conductor of the Perth Symphony until 2019, as well as Inaugural Fellow at the Hart Institute of Women Conductors with the Dallas Opera. A proud alumna of WAAPA, Jessica has been on music staff since 2008.

Alice HumphriesAlice Humphries is a highly versatile composer and arranger working across and in-between the contemporary classical, jazz and experimental worlds. Her music has been described as “bursting with life and fun, as well as great, great beauty” and “deeply thought-provoking…offering both moments of incredible intensity and sublime serenity.” Her output includes electro-acoustic, chamber and orchestral music, as well as music for dance, documentary and film. Alice’s music has been performed across Australia and internationally by artists including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Syzygy Ensemble, Blair Harris and Caroline Almonte, and the Letter String Quartet. She also works extensively as an arranger and orchestrator and has collaborated with some of Australia’s major orchestras and contemporary music artists including Josh Pyke, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan, Meow Meow and Missy Higgins. Alice graduated from WAAPA with a Bachelor of Music Honours in 2009.

Michael LewisMichael Lewis, in a career spanning 50 years, has become one of Australia’s most respected singers. He is highly regarded for his command of both operatic and concert repertoire. After winning the Metropolitan Opera Competition in 1973 and an Arts Council Scholarship, Michael left Adelaide for Europe, marking the beginning of a successful international career. His major debut at the Wexford Festival in 1976, was followed by performances at opera houses in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Venice, San Diego, Pittsburgh, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera. He has performed 35 major roles with Opera Australia, as well as regular appearances with the state companies in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane and New Zealand Opera. He has worked extensively on the concert platform with many major orchestras and conductors in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Malaysia. Michael is a sought-after singing teacher, mentor and coach and is currently a voice teacher at WAAPA. In 2008 Michael was awarded an OAM for services to the arts.

Amy Manford Prior to her West End debut as Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at the Sydney Opera House, after performing the role in London’s West End and Athens, Greece. Amy had sung at many iconic venues such as the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea and at Buckingham Palace for the Prince of Wales. She was especially honoured to sing the Australian Anthem for HRH Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle for the 2018 Anzac Day Memorial Service in London. In 2017, Amy graduated with a Master of Performance from the prestigious Royal College of Music where she was lucky enough to perform numerous title roles with their International Opera School. Before moving to London, Amy had graduated with a Bachelor of Music from WAAPA in her hometown of Perth. Amy returned home last year to form Perth’s newest production company, MM Creative Productions with friend and fellow WAAPA graduate, Genevieve McCarthy. They are thrilled to be bringing Disney in Concert: A Dream is a Wish to Australia for the first time this October at the Riverside Theatre.

Emma MatthewsAustralia’s most highly awarded soprano, Emma Matthews performs regularly with all the Australian opera companies, symphony orchestras and festivals, and is now Head of Classical Voice and Opera Studies at WAAPA. Emma’s operatic repertoire includes the title roles in The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Opera Australia), Lulu, Lakmé, Lucia di Lammermoor and Partenope; Violetta (La Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Marie (La Fille du Regiment), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Amina (La Sonnambula), the four heroines (The Tales of Hoffmann), Leila (Les Pecheurs de Perles) and Rosina (The Barber of Seville). In addition to appearing in numerous Opera Australia productions released on DVD, including La Traviata and Lakme, Emma’s solo recordings with orchestra are: Emma Matthews in Monte Carlo (Deutsche Grammophon/ABC Classics), Mozart arias (ABC Classics) and Agony and Ecstasy (ABC Classics).

Meow Meow Meow’s unique brand of subversive and sublime entertainment has hypnotized, inspired and terrified audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Lincoln Centre New York, to the Hollywood Bowl, to the Sydney Opera House. Her original music theatre works have played from Berlin to Berkeley, Edinburgh to Shanghai and have been commissioned by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Mikhail Baryshnikov amongst others. With orchestras she specialises in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann and contemporary work. The stage-diving tragi-comedienne has performed her “orchestrated chaos” with The London Philharmonic, Sydney, Seattle, Bergen Norway, Oregon and San Francisco Symphonies. Her latest album Hotel Amour with Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale was ranked in The Times UK top 100 albums of 2019. Her theatre credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, and a critically acclaimed Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall, Jenny in Threepenny Opera with the London Philharmonic in London and Paris, and Anna in Die Sieben Todsünden at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Vladimir Jurowski. She has created numerous fantastical history song cycles for crumbling theatres and bespoke civic events, most recently in Liverpool. Meow Meow graduated from WAAPA’s Music Theatre course in 1997.

Jamie OehlersDr Jamie Oehlers is recognised as one of Australia’s leading jazz artists and saxophonists. He was the winner of the 2003 World Saxophone Competition in Switzerland and has won numerous awards in Australia, including four Australian Jazz Bell Awards – one Best Australian Jazz Artist and three for Best Contemporary Jazz Album – an ABC Limelight Award for Best Jazz CD Release, and has been an ARIA Awards finalist for Best Jazz Album. His career has seen him perform throughout the world, from New York, London, Paris and Berlin to India, Switzerland, UK, Italy, Ireland, China and Japan. He has released 20 albums, including his latest, Night Music which was aligned with his PhD entitled “Developing a Chromatic-Intervallic Approach to Jazz Improvisation Through Reflexive Practice”. Jamie graduated from WAAPA’s Jazz course in 1994, returned in 2008 to take up the position of Coordinator of Jazz Studies, and completed his PhD at WAAPA in 2019. Jamie is now WAAPA’s Associate Dean of Music, and maintains an active performance career on top of his teaching and mentoring.

Paul O’NeillAustralian tenor Paul O’Neill has forged a compelling international career performing throughout Europe and Australasia. His 2021 engagements include Alfredo (La traviata) for Opera Australia, Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana) and Canio (Pagliacci) for West Australian Opera, and concert appearances with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, he sang Don José in Carmen for West Australian Opera, Rodolfo (La bohème) and Narraboth (Salome) for Opera Australia, the title role in Faust for Theater Münster, Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) throughout China and Cavaradossi (Tosca) in both Perth and Magdeburg. Other roles include: The Duke (Rigoletto) with Opera Holland Park, Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Staatstheater Mainz; Turriddu, Cavaradossi, and Carlo VII (Giovanna d´Arco) for Theater Bielefeld; Jason (Médée) for Theater Bielefeld and Staatstheater Mainz and The Italian Tenor (Der Rosenkavalier) for Berlin Staatsoper. Paul earned his Bachelor of Performing Arts (Music) at WAAPA and was a Young Artist at West Australian Opera.

Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar Dr. Roma Yibiyung Winmar has worked significantly in Indigenous education and the arts where she is continuously promoting Noongar language and cultural activities for which she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edith Cowan University in 2020.

She has extensive language skills and is presently employed as a Noongar language teacher at Western Australia’s Moorditj College, and as the Elder-in-Residence at Edith Cowan University. She is also currently on the Board of Sister Kate’s Home Kids Aboriginal Corporation (SKHKAC) and is a member of the Wirlomin Language and Stories Inc. Cultural Elders Reference Group. Roma was awarded the Barry Hayward Outstanding Achievement Aboriginal Individual Award in 2005. She has delivered sessions at conferences on language such as the Connecting with Aboriginal Languages Conference in 2007 in Hawaii; the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention conference in New Zealand in 2016; and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention conference/World Indigenous Suicide Prevention conference in Perth in 2018. Roma sat on the Department of Education’s Curriculum Council in setting standards and educational expectations for Noongar language taught at secondary and TEE levels. Roma was the language and cultural consultant on the play Yibiyung written by her daughter Dallas Winmar. She has also worked as senior language editor for the Noongar Shakespeare Project. Roma, under the name of Yibiyung, has worked with the Carrolup School of artists as adults. Biographical cuttings on Yibiyung as an artist in her own right are housed in the National Library of Australia in Canberra as a contemporary Noongar artist. She has a passion for passing on family histories to the next generation through research and storytelling.

Nicole YoulNicole Youl made her mark as a soprano in the works of Puccini and Verdi – she has performed the title role in Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia), Mimi in La bohème (Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, Paiz Festival in Guatemala), title role in Tosca (Opera Australia, Victorian State Opera), Liu in Turandot (Opera Australia), the leading ladies in Puccini’s Il Trittico; Giorgetta in Il tabarro, the title role in Suor Angelica and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Opera Australia), Leonora in Il trovatore (West Australian Opera, Opera Australia) and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera (Opera Australia). Other roles include Elsa in Lohengrin (Opera Australia), Leonore in Fidelio (OA), Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana (Opera Australia, West Australian Opera), Micaela in Carmen (Opera Australia, Opera Queensland and West Australian Opera), Diane in Iphigenie en Tauride (Opera Australia), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Victorian State Opera), First Lady in The Magic Flute (Opera Australia), Grimgerde (Die Walküre) and Die Vertraute and Die Vierte Mägd in Elektra (Teatro dell’ opera di Roma). 2021 sees Nicole performing Mamma Lucia (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro) for West Australian Opera and La Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica) for Freeze Frame Opera. Nicole currently teaches classical voice at WAAPA.

ORDER OF Proceedings Welcome to Country y Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar

Waalwaliny written by Clint Bracknell and arranged by Hanae Wilding after an arrangement by Iain Grandage. Performed with students from Aboriginal Performance, Acting and Music departments

WAAPA Symphony Orchestra y Opening of Also sprach Zarathustra by

Richard Strauss

y The Dream Before by Meow Meow

LINK Dance Company and WAAPA Jazz Combo y Excerpt from Let’s Do It choreographed by

Leigh Warren

y Music: I Get a Kick Out of You/Always True to You in My Fashion by Cole Porter

Emma Matthews, Nicole Youl, Paul O’Neill, Michael Lewis and Orchestra y Quartet from Rigoletto

Acting students y Scenes from Shakespeare directed by Glenda

Linscott

Aboriginal Performance students with Clint Bracknell and Orchestra y Break Loose by Clint Bracknell, arranged by Philip

Everall and choreographed by Simon Stewart

ECU Contemporary Fashion Showcase featuring the Mingus Jazz Ensemble y The Mind Melder by Troy Roberts

WAAPA Symphony Orchestra with WAAPA Chorus y Brave the Wave composed by Jonathon Jie

Hong Yang

Acting students y Chasing Happy inspired by ATLAS created by the

Graduating Actors 2019 and Samantha Chester in 2018

INTERVAL 20 MINUTES

Defying Gravity Percussion y Celebrate by Marcus Perrozzi

Contemporary Music students y Gone Under by Snarky Puppy

Bachelor of Performing Arts students y Ladies and… An adaptation of Edith Cowan’s

maiden speech to Parliament directed and adapted by Melissa Cantwell

Music Theatre students and Orchestra y I’ve Got Rhythm by George and Ira Gershwin from

the musical Crazy For You directed by Crispin Taylor, choreographed by Jayne Smeulders and conducted by David King

ECU Short Film Commissions for the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife y Shift written and devised by Helen Searle and

directed by Andrew Lewis

y Commissioned by the ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

Amy Manford with the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra y Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again by Andrew

Lloyd-Webber from The Phantom of the Opera

Dance students with Pavan Kumar Hari (composer/percussion) y The Resistance choreographed by Brooke Leeder

WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, WAAPA Chorus, WAAPA Big Band, WAAPA Gospel Choir and soloists Emma Matthews (soprano) and Jamie Oehlers (saxophone) y Be Transformed composed by Alice Humphries,

conducted by Tom O’Halloran

CELEBRATE!WAAPA salutes ECU’s 30th Anniversary

Featured ENSEMBLESWAAPA Symphony OrchestraViolin 1

Yasmin Omran Pinn Mitaim

Nadia Alexander Steven Daly

Jude Iddison Daniel Drieberg

Lucy Wang Runa Murase

Violin II

Aya Smith Wayne Heng

Momo Foord Jonathon Yang

Kaelah Williams Lydia Lai

Kristy Hughes Alice Broadhead

Miranda Dyskin Erica Wong

Viola

Patrick Meyer Oscar McDonald

Hanae Wilding Brian Chang

Amadea Foss

Cello

Anneke van der Laan Zoe Hawksworth

Camille Lalanne Georgia Cook

Tegan Finlay Kaila Thomas

Bass

Oakley Paul Cass Evans-Ocharern

Meg Vicensoni Kirsty Malcolm

Harp

Rachel Fish Kira Gunn

Flute

Caitlin Malcolm Emily McGuiness

Isabella Eagles

Oboe

Zoe Gampfer Hannah Woolley

Gabriella Ibrahim

Clarinet

Izzy Bormolini Riley McCallion

Saskia Rickman

Bassoon

Hugh Ponnuthurai Yanika O’Brien

Georgia Bradley

French Horn

Calen Linke Milly McAuliffe

Jenna Lamborn Aaron Stulcbauer

Trumpet

Brent Grapes Hamish McCamley

Carl Evers Zac Ogden

WAAPA Symphony OrchestraTrombone

Sondra Skilton Lindsay Bush

Bass Trombone Aaron Canny

Tuba Jason Catchpowle

Piano/Celeste Izaac Masters

Trevor Stockton

Timpani/Percussion

Gabrielle Lee Steven Hartley

Joey Eng Thom Selim

Madeline Colvin Joshua Stark

Laura Saxon Dean Murray

Jon Parker Zac Skelton

Saxophone

Jasmin Hardie Blake Faulkner

James Calvert Andrea Jordan-Keane

Shaniqa Lin Josh Sumich

Grace Kay

Classical Guitar

Amber Van Roy Tayne Burnside

Macenzie Clare Wilbur Grantham

Drumset William Wallace

Electric Guitar Sam Forster

Bass Guitar Blake Weller

WAAPA ChorusSoprano

Avalon Brown Miella Mondlane

Elizabeth Bruk Brittney Northcott

Sian Bussanich Bethany O’Brien

Ava Charleson Sade Partridge

Jesse Chester-Browne Charis Postmus

Emily Chivers Bobbi Ralls

Sophie Coleshill Jada Rattray

Olivia Collins Beth Redwood

Breanna Cooke Rachel Rees

Paris Cusack Lachlan Ross

Karyn Djodjo Dihardjo Scout Simmonds

Nike Etim Bonnie Staude

Jessica Goodwin Maddie Stephens

Sophie Hamer Erin Strle

Charlotte Holly-Little Jessica Taylor

Zoe Lancaster Annabelle Volery

Audrey Lombardi Sophia Wasley

Georgia Mercer

WAAPA ChorusAlto

Ruth Burke Caitlin Forrest

Karlie Butler Stephanie Hair

Emily Davis Sophie Herbert

Samantha Deykin Mia Lawson-Cross

Jane Dowker Siena Palmer

Harriet Du Pont Michelle Pryor

Olivia Ferguson

Tenor

Ammon Bennett Euan Macmillan

Julian Cope Dylan Watson

Jacob Correia Ryan White

Noah Humich

Bass

Evan Ayres Devon Lake

Nathan Breeze Raphael Luxton

Samuel Claxton Theodore Murphy-Jelley

Ryan Coyte-King Ciaran Paxman

Benjamin Del Borrello Brett Peart

Joshua Edwards James Pinneri

Kyle Garces Keaton Staszewski-Hose

Kohsei Gilkes Laurence Westrip

Lachlan Higgins

Jazz Ensemble Let’s Do It

Vocalist Lucy Iffla

Trumpet James Chapman

Double Bass Avis Mena-Lescay

Piano James O’Brien (musical director)

Drums Jeremy Goinden

Tenor Saxophone Josh Parker

Clarinet Camryn Thomason

Alto Saxophone Holly Forster

Electric Guitar Sam Forster

Trombone Jonathan Brittain

Mingus EnsembleThe Mind Melder

Trumpet Matthew Knight

Trumpet Dusan Cuculoski

Tenor Saxophone Augustine Kaung-Htet

Alto Saxophone Johan Kriel

Trombone Will Pethick

Electric Guitar Ben Jobson

Keyboard/Rhodes Darcy Maishman

Electric Bass Tommi Flamenco

Drums Josh Wright

Contemporary MusicContemporary Ensemble Gospel Choir

Kayla Beattie Matt Allen

Mikayla Boonstra Mikayla Boonstra

Melissa Crotty Shanae Campbell

Joel Dalton Rhys Clark

Jack Hill Reece Collard

Ben Lazzaro Melissa Crotty

Rein Limanta Shanay Cullen

Madoc Plane Leah Cusma

Trevor Stockton Olivis George

Blake Weller Rein Limanta

Nina Mansfield

Leah McFetridge

Sarah Munsie

Keely O’Brien

Carrie Pereira

Madoc Plane

Allira Wilson

Music ArtistsElijah Crouch Mia June

Chelsea Elder Matt Preston

Featured ENSEMBLESAboriginal PerformanceWelcome to Country

Georgia Calderwood Tehya Jamieson

Faith Clowry Lila McGuire

Shontane Farmer Tahnaya Stevenson

Kira Feeney Shontae Wright

Ruby Henaway

Break Loose with Clint Bracknell

Sebastian Critti-Schnaars Taj Jamieson

Jake Fraser Lathan Sebastian

Oliver Hughs

Acting2nd Year Students 1st Year Students

Giuseppe D’allura Joseph Baldwin

Remy Danoy Tess Elizabeth Bowers

Shontane Farmer Estelle Davis

Roxanne Gardiner Harrison Gilchrist

Sean Halley Ruby May Henaway

Brandan Halsey Edyll Ismail

Tinashe Mangwana Alexander John Kirwan

Dominic Masterson William Snow Lonsdale

Radhika Mudaliar Tyren Joseph Maclou

Delia Price Lila May Laws Mcguire

Laura Shaw James Mcmahon

Adrian Sit Lauren Mcnaught

Blaise Tindale Dieudonne Munezero Ngabo

Karina Topolovec Elyse Phelan

Gabrielle Wilson Tyler Redman

Kelsey Skinner

Lucinda Smith

Jesse Alexander Vasiliadis

Fight Ensemble 2nd & 3rd Year Students

Giuseppe D’Allura Adrian Sit

Chaya Ocampo Madeline Dona

Jack Twelvetree Hannah Penman

Mitchell Tharle Emelia Corlett

Fight director: Lawrence Hassle

DanceExcerpts from Let’s Do It.

LINK Dancers

Keisha Lau Luther Wilson

Zachary Wilson Allain Gumapon

Elliott Dunn

Excerpts from The Resistance

1st Year Dancers

Hannah Brookes Tegan Anne Carter

Ella Georgia Cartledge Dannielle Joan Cook

Harrison Cook Georgia Eleni Douvartzidis

Man Yi Fung Paris Michelle Hall

Sophia Marchesani Ruby Isabella Michael

Sophie Molony Frances Marie Orlina

Emily Rose Parry Ruby Alexandra Surtees

Laura Tooby

3rd Year Dancers

Emma Andrews Karlia Cook

Joanna Cooper Lara Dorling

Jazlyn Goldsworthy Claudia Bolam

Madison Hartslief Ekaterini Alfred

Mia Austin Brooklyn Harley

Hope Keogh Neve Torok

Isabella Knight Brandan Hardie

Musicians

Madeline Colvin Steven Hartley

Joey Eng Gabrielle Lee

Pavan Kumar Hari

Music TheatreCrazy For You (I’ve Got Rhythm)

2nd Year Students

Regan Barber Madeleine Betts

Jackson Britza Taao Buchanan

Eliza Carlin Brittany Carter

Rohan Campbell Harry Fenn

Anthony Garcia Peter Ho

Matt Hourigan Lily Jones

Arthur Lees Sarah Monteaur

Francesca Nason Hayley Parnaby

Campbell Parsons Hamish Pickering

Ariana Rigazzi Justin Wise

3rd Year Students

Sammy Allsop Kyle Colburn

Zoe Crisp Paige Fallu

Noah Godsell Emma Haines

Kyle Hall Hannah Jones

Anita Karabajakian Tom Lerk

James Macalpine Chloe Malek

Sam Moloney Brittany Morton

Angus Noakes Lachlan Obst

Amber Scates Juno Sertorio

Jesse Simpson Emily Svarnias

Performing ArtsLadies and… directed by Melissa Cantwell

Delaney Burke Jefferson Nguyen

Leah Selwood Clea Purkis

Mazey O’Reilly Jennifer Mackenzie

Welcome to Country StringsNadia Alexander Oakley Paul

Tegan Finlay Aya Smith

Amadea Foss Anneke Van Der Laan

Pinn Mitaim Hanae Wilding

Yasmin Omran

Cassandra Loy

Defying GravityMartha Bird Dean Murray

Madeline Colvin Jonathan Parker

Joey Eng Laura Saxon

Steven Hartley Thom Selim

Ben Jones Zac Skelton

Gabrielle Lee Joshua Stark

ECU Contemporary Fashion ShowcaseModels

Mollie Atkins Trinity Hillam

Madelaine Bayliss Drew Holloway

Clara Beuck Sarah Kinch

Ella Cartledge Isabella Knight

Joanna Cooper Amilie Ladyman

Chloe Coutinho Talisha Lee

Emily Craig Laura McGillvray

Kayla Donoghue Caitlin Melhuis

Lara Dorling Emily Moore

Georgia Douvartzidis Alma Klaousses Ossen

Chelsea Edmiston Ella Owendyk

Valmarie Engelbrecht Emily Parry

Abbie Fearns Harvey Price

Cara Gilligan Grace Sharf

Jamie Grove Sarah Young

Designers

Mary Adams Ellen Duncan-Kemp

Victoria Canova Rena Hermon

Monroe Clements Genevieve Page

D’arcy Coad Megan Seares

Chris Desira

Stylists

Artists@Play Makeup Academy

Minii Hair

Richard Timms Richard is a Western Australian based freelance lighting designer. Lighting has been the key interest in his life since the later years of primary education. Richard graduated the Lighting course at WAAPA in 2021 after completing the Bachelor of Performing Arts Practice Transition. During his time at ECU, Richard was thrilled that he was able to light WAAPA’s 2020 major musical, A Chorus Line. Other highlights include Spring Awakening: The Musical and the Dance Gala.

Richard feels honoured to be invited back to light ECU’s 30 Year Anniversary Gala.

Kellan StarkieKellan is a sound engineer from Perth, WA. After graduating from the Bachelor of Performing Arts (Production and Design – Sound) at WAAPA, Kellan worked for Cirque du Soleil, touring Europe with their arena production of Corteo. Joining the Cirque technical team at age 20 proved to be an excellent opportunity to apply the training he received at WAAPA. After returning to Perth in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kellan has established himself locally as an owner of the production company ICON Audio Visual, providing various live event production services across Perth. Kellan continues his connection with WAAPA as a venue technician and sound engineer.

Creative and Production TeamArtistic Director Brendan Hanson

Music Director Tim White

Conductor Jessica Gethin

Associate Music Director – Jazz

Tom O’Halloran

Associate Music Directors – Contemporary

Matthew Allen & Vinnie Crea

Associate Music Director – Classical Voice

Emma Matthews

Production Manager Stephanie Thackray

Lighting Designer / Board Operator

Richard Timms

Dome Operator Jolene Whibley

Sound Designer Kellan Starkie

Audio Engineer Warren Myers

Sound Crew Edmond Ang

Mandy Ireland

Lavaniya Supramaniam

Alex Hastie

Stage Manager Steph Thackray

Head Assistant Stage Manager

Catherine O’Donoghue

Assistant Stage Managers Holly Ballam

Georgia Sealey

Rachel Anderson

Rowan Houlton

Stephanie Ierino

Shannen Moulton

Hayley Neil

Sam Rechichi

Jemma Sproul

Jasmine Valentini

Gabrielle Robins

Workshop Nathan Tan

Alek Tufilli

Marketing Manager – Publicity Marketing

Anton Maz

Graphic Design Key2creative

Postcard Video Production Kelly Ye and David French

Photography Stephen Heath

Concerts Officers Kristin Bowtell

Milly Landre-Ord

Alumni Banners Mignon Du Plessis

Aryana Eraman

Yashar Ghorbanpour

Isaac Huggins

Madeleine Turner

Precious Vergara

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThank you to the following people for their invaluable support:

For future WAAPA performances contact:

WAAPA Box Office Tel: +61 (8) 9370 6895

waapa.ecu.edu.au

Acknowledgement of Country ECU and Perth Concert Hall respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across Western Australia and in particular the Noongar people, the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of Whadjuk Country, and on whose land we meet.

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ECU Vice Chancellor – Professor Steve Chapman

WAAPA Executive Dean – Professor David Shirley

Executive Dean of Arts & Humanities – Clive Barstow

The following School of Arts & Humanities staff, whose students were responsible for the incredible artwork hanging in the foyers and tonight’s spectacular fashion parade:

Justine McKnight, Stuart Medley and Christopher Kueh.

EAVP (Elite Audio Visual Production) for the generous supply of lighting and AV equipment.

The students and staff of the Western Australian Screen Academy whose short films have been screened this evening in the foyers.

The Friends of WAAPA.

All of WAAPA’s students, staff and alumni, and special guest artists who have generously contributed their time and talents for this spectacular event.

Perth Concert Hall Staff

Brendon Ellmer, General Manager; Lorraine Rice, Deputy General Manager; and the rest of the team at Perth Concert Hall.

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