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Inaugurated in 1988 as part of the University's seventy-fifth Anniversary celebrations, the Callaway Lecture Series has gone on to become one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar.
In the two decades since the Lecture Series began, a host of distinguished speakers have taken the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the arts.
9 October 2013
Joseph Colaneri, Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera, Artistic Director of Opera, Mannes College of Music, USA
2012
Richard Egarr, Acclaimed British keyboardist and Music Director of The Academy of Ancient Music
Historically Informed Performance: The next generation
2011
Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge, UK
Beyond hidden persuasion
Presented as part of the Power of Music: The 34th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia and the 2nd International Conference on Music and Emotion
22 October 2010
Paavali Jumppanen, Finnish pianist
Shakespearean influences in Beethoven's music
20 September 2009
Professor Donald Burrows, Handel Scholar from The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Too hot to Handel? Performers, audiences, scholars and attitudes to ‘authenticity’
29 September 2008
Let's re-visit the past so that we might have a future ... the desperate plight of music education in the 21st century and some ideas for saving the planet
7 July 2007
Professor Alan Harvey, Chair, UWA Neuroscience Discipline Group, School of Anatomy and Human Biology
Music and the mind: does a tune a day keep the shrink away?
Presented as part of ASME 2007: XVI Australian Society for Music Education 40th Anniversary National Conference
14 December 2006
Professor Kim Walker, Dean of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
Education, money, morality and the 21st century ecosphere
2 November 2005
Robyn Holmes, Curator of Music, National Library of Australia
Musical enterprise: reinventing the public face of music scholarship in Australia
26 July 2004
Professor Mark Everist, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton
Music, performance and culture, or Where does music come from?
11 July 2003
Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell, the Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, University of Washington
Music, education, and culture: traditions and transitions in the lives of young people
14 June 2002
The Honourable Geoff Gallop MLA, Premier of Western Australia
Culture, creativity and the future of Western Australia
31 October 2001
Professor Malcolm Gillies, President, Australian Academy of the Humanities and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Adelaide University
Facing the music: academic collegiality and the arts
2000
From Bondi to Beethoven: Australians and their culture
10 October 1999
The arts and the pre-emptive buckle
14 September 1998
Professor Deryck Schreuder, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia
The humanities: popular myths and professional realities
1997
Professor Richard Colwell, Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois
Music in education and everyday life
Published as CIRCME Series, no.12
1996
The muses in quest of a patron
Published as CIRCME Series, no.11
1995
Emeritus Professor David Tunley
The orb and the forge : the nature of music and its place in a modern university
Presented on the occasion of Professor Tunley's retirement and published as CIRCME Series, no.10
16 May 1994
Associate Professor Veronica Brady, University of Western Australia
Shall these bones live…?
Presented on the occasion of Sir Frank's Callaway's 75th birthday
Published as CIRCME Series, no.6
1993
Professor Lyle Davidson, Harvard University, USA
Arts education : new ways of learning
Presented as part of the ASME National Conference and published as CIRCME Series, no.3
1992
Nicholas Hasluck QC, AM
The arts labryrinth
Published as CIRCME series, no. 2
1991
Heath Lees, Professor of Music, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The global fact of music education
Published as CIRCME series, no. 1
8 October 1990
Mr James Strong of Melbourne
The future for the arts and business in Australia: great expectations
Presented during National Arts Week
15 April 1989
Professor Sir Peter Platt, Bt, Professor of Music at the University of Sydney
A form of infinity: music and the human spirit
Published as CIRCME series, no. 9
15 June 1988
The Hon. Barry O. Jones, Federal Minister for Science and Small Business
The two cultures in a brave new world: life, arts and mixed metaphors
Published as CIRCME series, no. 7
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