Jurassic World in Concert
WASO AT THE MOVIES
Friday 17 & Saturday 18 April 2026, 7.30pm
Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
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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A Steven Spielberg Film
Jurassic World in Concert
WASO On Stage
A Note from the Composer
A Note from the Director
About the Artists
Nicholas Buc
Conductor
Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and pianist. He studied Composition with Brenton Broadstock and Dr. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, where he received the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. As the recipient of the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers, he completed a Master's degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, studying with Ira Newborn and Paul Chihara as well as receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring.
Continuing his passion for music and film, he conducted the live-in-concert world premieres of John Williams' Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Hans Zimmer’s The Lion King (2019), Alan Menken's Beauty and the Beast (2017), James Horner’s Field of Dreams, Harry Greson-Williams’ Shrek 2, Nicholas Hooper's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Alexandre Desplat’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, as well as the North American premiere of John Powell’s How To Train You Dragon. Other live film concerts he has conducted include Pixar In Concert, Star Trek, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Psycho, Home Alone, Frozen, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Little Mermaid, Star Wars: Episodes IV, V, VI and VII and all eight Harry Potter films. He has conducted all of the major Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, Chicago, San Fransisco, Houston, Detroit, San Diego, Seattle, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Austin, Grand Rapids and Madison symphony orchestras in the US. He also makes regular appearances in Asia, conducting the Tokyo, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Osaka and Taipei Philharmonic orchestras.
Alongside his conducting work, Buc is an award-winning composer and arranger. His original live animation concert, Daughter of the Inner Stars, premiered with the Sydney Symphony in 2024 and then the Vancouver Symphony in 2025, and he recently scored The Apocalypse According to Mad Max, a French-Australian documentary on filmmaker George Miller. In 2026, his new arrangement of the Australian Open theme, commissioned by Tennis Australia and recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, debuted at the tournament.
Nicholas has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds and was conductor/arranger for Tina Arena on six Australian tours. He has also written arrangements for Diana Ross, Lake Street Dive, Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins, Passenger, Eskimo Joe, Vera Blue and The Whitlams, as well as working on five seasons of The Voice Australia. In 2019 he teamed up with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, arranging their film music for a new show with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
As a composer, some of his works have been premiered by the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, The Australian Voices, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Benaud Trio and Concordis Chamber Choir. In November 2022 the Melbourne Youth Orchestra premiered his new Trumpet Concerto, written for and commissioned by Josh Rogan. In July 2023, his 100-minute long oratorio titled Origins premiered at the Melbourne Recital Centre. A telling of the creation story from the point of view of science, it was commissioned and performed by the 100-voice Heidelberg Choral Society, 4 soloists and 60-piece orchestra, with a libretto by geneticist Jenny Graves and poet Leigh Hay.
He has also written for film and television, with some of his work being screened at festivals and theatres around Australia, Asia and the US. In 2007 he was nominated for "Best Original Song Composed for the Screen" in the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards, and in 2015 was a winning finalist of the NYU Film Scoring Competition. Nicholas also recently completed work on the new Australian feature film Slant, starring Sigrid Thornton and Pia Miranda, which won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2022. He also scored the Ukrainian documentary Slava, which won Best Short Film at Byron All Shorts Flickerfest 2023.
The 2025–2026 season brings debut appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, along with return engagements with the Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Toronto Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Orlando Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, and all major Australian symphony orchestras.
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About the Artists
Michael Giacchino
Composer
Academy Award®-winning composer and director Michael Giacchino has created the musical landscape for some of the most beloved projects in modern entertainment. His scoring portfolio reads like a greatest hits collection of 21st century cinema, encompassing animated masterpieces like The Incredibles, Coco, Ratatouille, and Inside Out, blockbuster spectacles including Star Trek, Jurassic World, Rogue One, The Batman, and the trilogy of Jon Watts's Spider-Man films, acclaimed dramas such as Jojo Rabbit and Society of the Snow, and the beloved score for the iconic television show, LOST. His most recent credits include The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Zootopia 2. His emotionally resonant score for Pixar's Up earned him a sweep of the industry's most prestigious honors: an Oscar®, Golden Globe®, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Award, and two GRAMMY® Awards. After nearly two decades establishing himself as one of Hollywood's premier composers, Giacchino expanded his artistic vision by making his directorial debut with Marvel's special presentation Werewolf By Night (2022), marking a new chapter in his multifaceted career, while continuing to compose music for films including a collaboration with Paul McCartney on the animated film, High in the Clouds, and will be heading back to the scoring stage this spring to record the music for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as well as Brad Bird's Ray Gunn.
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Production Credits
Jurassic World in Concert is produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.
Producers: Maria Giacchino, Steven A. Linder, Jamie Richardson
Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill
Production Manager: Sophie Greaves
Production Assistant: Katherine Miron
Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC
Supervising Technical Director: Warren Brown
Music Composed by Michael Giacchino
Orchestrations for Concert Performance: Jeff Kryka
Music Preparation: BTW Productions
Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Epilogue Media
The score for Jurassic World has been adapted for live concert performance.
With special thanks to: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, John Williams, Colin Trevorrow, Michael Giacchino, Michael Silver, Patrick Koors, Tammy Olsen, Lawrence Liu, Chuck Nilsen, Mike Pastrano, Thomas Schroder, Tanya Perra, Chris Herzberger, Noah Bergman, Jason Jackowski, Shayne Mifsud, Darice Murphy, Alex Levy, Luke Dennis, Eric Wegener, Booker White and the musicians and staff of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
About WASO
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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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