Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert
WASO at the Movies
Friday 18 July, 7.30pm | Saturday 19 July, 1pm and 7.30pm | Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
Jessica Gethin | Conductor
West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and Elders of Country throughout Western Australia, and the Whadjuk Noongar people on whose lands we work and share music.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert
A LUCASFILM LTD. Production
A RIAN JOHNSON Film
Mark Hamill
Carrie Fisher
Adam Driver
Daisy Ridley
John Boyega
Oscar Isaac
Andy Serkis
Lupita Nyong’o
Domhnall Gleeson
Anthony Daniels
Gwendoline Christie
Kelly Marie Tran
Laura Dern
with Frank Oz
and Benicio Del Toro
Music by John Williams
Visual Effects & Animation by Industrial Light & Magic
Costume Designer Michael Kaplan
Film Editor Bob Ducsay
Production Designer Rick Heinrichs
Director of Photography Steve Yedlin, ASC
Executive Producers J.J. Abrams, Tom Karnowski and Jason Mcgatlin
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, p.g.a. and Ram Bergman, p.g.a.
Written and Directed by Rian Johnson
Jessica Gethin conductor
©2018 & ™ Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Walt Disney Records available at Disneymusicemporium.com. This film is Rated PG-13.
Star Wars Film Concert Series Production Credits
President, Disney Music Group Ken Bunt
SVP/GM, Disney Concerts Chip McLean
Supervising Technical Director Alex Levy – Epilogue Media
Film Preparation Ramiro Belgardt
Business Affairs, Lucasfilm Rhonda Hjort, Chris Holm
Music Preparation Mark Graham, Matthew Voogt
JoAnn Kane Music Service
Disney Music Library
Operations, Disney Concerts Brannon Fells, Royd Haston
Marketing & Publicity Lisa Linares, Lillian Matulic
VP, Disney Concerts Gina Lorscheider
Business Affairs, Disney Concerts Darryl Franklin, Leigh Zeichick, Phil Woods, Narine Minasian, Elena Contreras, Addison Granillo, Christy Swintek, Svetlana Tzaneva
Business Affairs, Warner-Chappell Scott McDowell
WASO On Stage
About the Composer
John Williams
Composer
In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and the concert stage. He remains one of the nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices.
He has composed the music for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman and the Indiana Jones films.
He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies and more than a dozen concertos, commissioned by some of America’s most prominent orchestras.
He has received five Academy Awards and 53 Oscar nominations, seven British Academy Awards, 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. His other honours include the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, an honorary KBE from Queen Elizabeth II, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, and the Gold Medal from the UK’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society.
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About the Artists
Jessica Gethin
Conductor
Award-winning conductor Jessica Gethin has gained widespread attention for her stellar musicianship and vibrant energy on the podium. As one of the most versatile conductors in the country, Jessica glides seamlessly between core symphonic repertoire to ballet, opera, contemporary and film scores. Jessica’s international roster includes engagements with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Dallas Opera, Orchestra Victoria, Perth Symphony, Canberra Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Tasmanian Symphony, Opera Queensland, Orchestra Macao, the West Australian Ballet and The Australian Ballet among others.
Jessica is currently the Principal Conductor of the West Australian Ballet, Artistic Advisor of Orchestra Victoria and Head of Orchestral Studies and Conducting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. From 2011-2019 Jessica was the Chief Conductor of the Perth Symphony and is now Ambassador and lead faculty for their Women on the Podium initiative.
Her accolades include being listed twice in Limelight Australia’s Top 20 Artists and AFR’s 100 Most Influential Women of Australia, a winner of the Brian Stacey Emerging Australian Conductor Award, a Churchill Fellow and inaugural Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute Fellow, a finalist in the West Australian of the Year Awards, and induction into the 2024 WA Women's Hall of Fame.
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About WASO
Engage | Excite | Experience | Educate
From the centre of Perth to the furthest corners of the state, we have provided the soundtrack to life in WA since 1928.
As the State Orchestra, Perth’s first and finest, WASO is the largest employer of performing artists in Western Australia and reaches two million people with musical experiences each year on stage, in our community, and online.
From concert stages to classrooms, hospitals to aged care, we bring joy, inspire learning, and nurture participation in our community, because everybody deserves the opportunity to experience live music. Every year, through community and leading industry partnerships, we engage a new generation of young and emerging artists to help secure a bright future for music in Australia.
We celebrate our rich classical music heritage with great artists from all over the world and commission and perform new repertoire to renew and expand it. The Orchestra collaborates widely with major arts companies and independent artists, performing opera to ballet, movies to musicals, jazz to rock.
Asher Fisch is Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of our Orchestra. We champion the diversity of music in all its forms, with a team of talented and passionate people who create unforgettable experiences for all West Australians to enjoy.
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