Welcome to the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

Learn to think, feel and create in the way only you can

Pursue the mastery of your discipline at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. As the proud home of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the Faculty is dedicated to composition, conducting, dance, design, production, ethnomusicology, film and television, interactive composition, jazz and improvisation, musicology, music performance, music psychology, music theatre, music therapy, theatre and visual arts.

Join us in Melbourne's Arts Precinct and find your artistic voice.

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From full-time degree study to breadth subjects to corporate workshops, we have flexible options on offer.

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Diversify, learn and get ahead

Explore a passion or discover something new through breadth study. With our world-class training and facilities.

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Understand the full impact and importance of the arts, and how you can contribute.

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3,125

core degree students across the Faculty

1st

in Australia for performing arts

$200M

invested in world-class facilities since 2010

Upcoming Events

  • Quercus in the Forest: Brahms, Eotvos and Schnyder

    Tuesday 25 March 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm
    Quercus Trio take the listener on a walk through the trees. The concert opens with Brahms’ Horn Trio, the main theme of which famously came to Brahms whilst walking in the Black Forest near Baden Baden. This is followed by a new horn trio by Melbourne composer Melody Eotvos titled Shivelight,whic...
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  • Art Forum: Paula de Solminihac

    Thursday 27 March 2025 12:15pm - 1:15pm
    Paula de Solminihac is a visual artist, Associate Professor at the School of Art and the Institute for Sustainable Development at the Catholic University, Chile and Executive Director of Nube Lab, an NGO dedicated to contemporary art and education. Her art practice explores the relationship betwe...
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  • Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

    Sunday 30 March 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra opens their 2025 concert season with two spectacular Hungarian works. Zoltán Kodály spent seven years of his childhood in Galánta where he heard small bands playing folk music at army recruitment events. These perf...
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