Will Yeoman, Author at Seesawmag

Reviews

Power, pleasure and poetry at the WA final of the Australian Poetry Slam

26 August 2025

At Rosemount Hotel, the WA Final of the Australian Poetry Slam 2025 showcased nine poets across two intense rounds of raw honesty, wit and power, writes Will Yeoman.

Spotlight

Building worlds with sound: spotlight on WASO composer in residence Olivia Davies

21 August 2025

Will Yeoman talks to West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence Olivia Davies as she reflects on creativity and her love of nature ahead of the world premiere of her latest work, Swarm.

Reviews

Australian Chamber Orchestra and friends paint the town blue

20 August 2025

Will Yeoman gets a front-row seat as pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk, trumpeter David Elton and ACO serve up rhapsodic Gershwin and cheeky Shostakovich.

Reviews

Next Gen Wonderland: Student-led and reimagined

13 August 2025

A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party with a difference – Will Yeoman finds the student-led production Alice in Wonderland curiouser and curiouser

Reviews

Elise Blumann’s Music in Motion: Modernism Meets WA’s Landscape

11 August 2025

In Elise Blumann: Music in Motion, William Yeoman explores AGWA’s intimate survey of the Berlin-trained artist’s work, revealing rarely-seen pieces and a career-long dialogue between movement, nature and modernism.

Spotlight

WAAPA’s shining future takes centre stage

31 July 2025

As arts education faces cutbacks across the globe, WAAPA continues to thrive by expanding, innovating, and preparing the next generation of performers – writes Will Yeoman.

Reviews

Miyazawa and Wooding: Chamber Music in Close Quarters

21 July 2025

In his latest review, Will Yeoman explores Morceaux de Salon, a captivating chamber performance by Akiko Miyazawa and Liam Wooding at Lawson Flats, where intimacy, informality, and virtuosity shared centre stage.

Reviews

Two festivals and a book fair

15 July 2025

Three vastly different literary events reveal a shared passion for storytelling, culture and community, writes William Yeoman.

A blonde woman in black stands, hands placed together in front of her as if in prayer. She looks upset and pleading. A man in a blue jacket in one shirt can be seen in the background. Big Apple spin gives opera bite

Reviews

Big Apple spin gives opera bite

1 September 2023

Freeze Frame Opera has done it again, delivering a wildly inventive take on a classic that deserves to be better known. Will Yeoman heads to Broadway.

A woman in the foreground plays a violin, while singers in the background look at their ipads full of music. This is Giovanni Consort performing with Australian Baroque. An exquisite journey to foreign lands

Reviews

An exquisite journey to foreign lands

27 August 2023

Two of WA’s finest musical ensembles join forces for an attractive Baroque program. Will Yeoman is enlightened.

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Seesaw Magazine acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
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