Hear Her Now Festival

Event details

Location

  • University of Western Australia

Date and time

  • 8 October - 18 October 2026

Event type

  • Open Conservatorium

Audience

  • Community
  • Domestic mature-age or non-recent school leavers who are pursuing their first degree
  • High school students

Hear Her Now Festival 

Mirabilis Collective in partnership with UWA Conservatorium of Music and Perth Wesley Church

8-19 October

Hear Her Now is Australia’s first chamber music festival programmed entirely with music by women. Led by Mirabilis Collective and presented over twelve days, the festival features 100 works by 100 women spanning six centuries, through intimate and large-scale performances across Perth. Grounded in collaboration and live performance, featuring established artists alongside emerging musicians, the festival brings together performers, composers, and audiences to celebrate women’s creative voices across history and today, placing women’s music at the centre of shared artistic experience and public life. 

Further information mirabiliscollective.com.

Hear Her Now Lunchtime Concert

 14 October | 1pm 
Callaway Auditorium 


As part of Hear Her Now, UWA students take the stage for a free lunchtime concert celebrating women’s diverse and creative voices.   

Free event – no bookings required 

 

The Salonnière’s Circle 
Art Song Through the Ages by Women Composers 

17 October | 6pm 
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 


Performed by UWA vocal students and Mirabilis musicians, indulge in a program spanning early art song to contemporary works, tracing women’s writing for the voice from Barbara Strozzi and Clara Schumann to composers of today. 

mirabiliscollective.com 

 

AMEB in Concert: Music by Women on the Syllabus  

18 October | 3pm 
Callaway Auditorium 


Highlighting the growing diversity of composers in the AMEB syllabus, Mirabilis Collective musicians perform alongside students from Methodist Ladies’ College in a program showcasing works by women composers.