Estudiantina!

• 7.30pm, Friday 23 May 2025
• Richard Gill Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2 Bradford St Mt Lawley)
• Director: Jonathan Paget; Performers: WAAPA staff and guitar students
• Tickets: $35 Full, $30 Concession, $28 Friends; Bookings see HERE
• School students can attend for FREE; email waapaboxoffice@ecu.edu.au to register for tickets.

Plucked string orchestras became a popular world-wide phenomenon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Aping the traditions of Spanish students, these groups were known as ‘estudiantinas’ or alternatively as
BMG (Banjo, Mandolin, and Guitar) clubs. Join us in a celebration of this remarkable historic epoch, as WAAPA’s
Plectra Guitar Ensemble and guitar soloists explore a range of treasured favourites and re-discovered rarities.

[Below, Western Australian B.M.G. Club ca. 1934]