2021 AWESOME FESTIVAL
Roald Dahl’s
Little Red Riding Hood
The Rechabite, Northbridge
Based on Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, this wickedly funny production changes everything you thought you knew about the Red Riding Hood story.
While creeping through the bushland on the hunt for something tasty to eat, Wolf stumbles upon Grandma’s cottage — but this particular Grandma is full of surprises. Wolf had better watch out, because Little Red Riding Hood might just have a trick up her sleeve!
Wind Quintet Plus bring to life this energetic and engaging performance of this classic fairy tale reimagined in the Australian bush.
Wind Quintet Plus Education Outreach
WQ+ presented a concert, masterclass and workshop at
Perth Modern School where we worked with keen and talented students to improve their chamber ensemble playing.
Wind Quintet Plus present education outreach incursions for primary and high schools. Sessions can include workshops, masterclasses and a concert to inspire students to improve their ensemble playing.
Find out more on our Education and Outreach page.
2021 AWESOME FESTIVAL
Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood
The Rechabite, Northbridge
Based on Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, this wickedly funny production changes everything you thought you knew about the Red Riding Hood story.
While creeping through the bushland on the hunt for something tasty to eat, Wolf stumbles upon Grandma’s cottage — but this particular Grandma is full of surprises. Wolf had better watch out, because Little Red Riding Hood might just have a trick up her sleeve!
Wind Quintet Plus bring to life this energetic and engaging performance of this classic fairy tale reimagined in the Australian bush.
Wind Quintet Plus Education Outreach
Find out more on our Education and Outreach page.
2021 Perth Festival
‘One & Many’
Sara Macliver with
Wind Quintet Plus
Perth Festival, February 2021
Wind Quintet Plus were honoured to present a fine music program in collaboration with renown Australian soprano, Sara Macliver for the 2021 Perth Festival. ‘One & Many’, a program curated by Festival Artistic Director, Iain Grandage, was performed under the magnificent skeleton of Otto the blue whale at WA Museum Boola Bardip. The concert began with music from the 12th century by Hildegard of Bingen, included works by Mozart, Schumann and Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, and finished with a new work, Black Giants, by West Australian composer Rebecca Erin Smith commissioned by Tura New Music for Perth Festival.
Wind Quintet Plus Make Perth Festival Debut
‘One & Many’
Perth Festival, February 2021
Wind Quintet Plus were honoured to present a fine music program in collaboration with renown Australian soprano, Sara Macliver for the 2021 Perth Festival. ‘One & Many’, a program curated by Festival Artistic Director, Iain Grandage, was performed under the magnificent skeleton of Otto the blue whale at WA Museum Boola Bardip.
The concert began with music from the 12th century by Hildegard of Bingen, included works by Mozart, Schumann and Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, and finished with a new work, Black Giants, by West Australian composer Rebecca Erin Smith commissioned by Tura New Music for Perth Festival.
The recital was all that one could have hoped for, superbly executed by Macliver and Wind Quintet Plus, and devised (and located) with great musical intelligence and imagination by the Festival’s artistic director, Iain Grandage.
…an immaculately executed performance burst into joyful exuberance.
LEON Levy – SeeSaw magazine
Stauss’s Morgen! was a paean to love, short but hauntingly beautiful; a metaphor for life.
David Cusworth – The West Australian
Magical evening of music—such talent.
Cheryl Hamill
Our many Western Australian artists have brought their works of imagination, history and dreaming to us, the audiences of Perth. They have given us a renewed love for this place and what it has to offer the world.
IAIN GRANDAGE – Artistic Director, Perth Festival
Congrats team – you have a right to feel very proud!
SOPHIE CURTIS – DIRECTOR
WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program
A wonderful week at the AWESOME Festival
The sounds of Wind Quintet Plus filled the air at the Perth Cultural Centre all week as the AWESOME Festival’s world premiere family ballet, The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, played to happy and receptive audiences. WQ+ recorded the wind quintet parts to Emma Jayakumar’s captivating score, with sound engineering by Kieran Kenderessy.
Children were charmed by wonderful acrobatics of the dancers from West Australian Ballet. The ballet is based on May Gibbs’ classic story about the gumnut babies Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and follows their adventures with various bush animals as they journey to try and see humans.
A wonderful week at the AWESOME Festival
The sounds of Wind Quintet Plus filled the air at the Perth Cultural Centre all week as the AWESOME Festival’s world premiere family ballet, The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, played to happy and receptive audiences. WQ+ recorded the wind quintet parts to Emma Jayakumar’s captivating score, with sound engineering by Kieran Kenderessy.
Children were charmed by wonderful acrobatics of the dancers from West Australian Ballet. The ballet is based on May Gibbs’ classic story about the gumnut babies Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and follows their adventures with various bush animals as they journey to try and see humans.
From the joyfully percussive overture, it was clear that this balletic version of May Gibbs’ iconic tale was going to be a winner with both young and not-so-young audiences.
Choreographed by Andries Weidemann (dance lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) to a recording of a gorgeous new orchestral score by local composer Emma Jayakumar, this 30-minute ballet bubbles along.
Nina Levy – SeeSaw magazine
The music was superb. Outstanding playing, full of vitality and humour.
Dale Pointon
My ears are full of your beautiful playing. So good!
Nik Babic
I took my two today and we all loved it. The music was superb and it made me so proud of the talented creatives here in WA! Go WQ+!
Sophie Curtis
Amazing playing. I loved it. So beautiful and cheeky.
Kate Newell
