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 OctoberHear 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 | 1pmCallaway 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 | 3pmCallaway 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.