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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.
Diversify, learn and get ahead
Explore a passion or discover something new through breadth study. With our world-class training and facilities.
Research that goes deeper
Understand the full impact and importance of the arts, and how you can contribute.
Alumni
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More about alumni3,125
core degree students across the Faculty
1st
in Australia for performing arts
$200M
invested in world-class facilities since 2010
Upcoming events
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Showcase
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Production Graduates 2019
The graduating students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production), Master of Design for Performance and Master of Production Design for Screen have honed their technical, c...- Graduation Show
- Other
Disclosure Graduate Dance Season 2019
at 7:30pm - 7:30pmAn evening of contemporary dance showcasing graduating students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in new works by Alisdair Macindoe, Larissa McGowan and James O’Har...- Season
Folio Live 2019
at 8:30pm - 8:30pmCollaborative sound and media works by graduating students of the Interactive Composition program. Over five evenings Interactive Composition students brought Grant Street The...- Concert
Latest News
Fine Arts and Music – a callout to our community
3 April 2020With doors closed across Melbourne's Arts Precinct, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music is looking for ways to support its community of artists and musicians....- Victorian College of the Arts
- Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
VCA introduces updated BFA curriculum for 2021
10 March 2020In 2021, the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) will introduce an updated Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) curriculum, in which students will continue to take practical, studio-ba...Meet Dr Brad Merrick, Senior Lecturer in Music (Performance Teaching) at the Melbourne Conservatorium
5 March 2020Dr Brad Merrick is a passionate educator and performer who has been involved in music and performance teaching for many years. What does his life look like since he joined the...- Performance Teaching
- Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
- Staff stories
VCA filmmakers get a seat at the table with Australians in Film in LA
4 March 2020Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television alumni will have the opportunity to work at the former home of Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles, thanks to a new partnersh...- Film and Television
- Alumni
- Victorian College of the Arts
Visual Artist Scotty So opens up about drag, authenticity, and getting mistaken for Carrie Lam on the internet
13 February 2020In 2019, Scotty So began exploring notions of reality and authenticity – but how did this lead to his alter-ego being accidentally picked up by international news m...- Alumni
- Visual Art
- Victorian College of the Arts
Art Schools for Fire Relief raises more than $100,000 for recovery charities
7 February 2020More than $100,000 has been raised for Wildlife Victoria and the Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund in an art exhibition hosted by the Victorian College of the Arts at the Margar...- Victorian College of the Arts
- Visual Art
Alumni collaborate on Asia TOPA's The Seen and Unseen
31 January 2020Eugyeene Teh and Adena Jacobs met at the VCA in 2007. 13 Years later, they’re collaborating with fellow Australian theatremaker Jenny Hector, Indonesian artist Kamila An...- Alumni
- Design
- Theatre
- Victorian College of the Arts
Dr Suzanne Fraser: coordinating the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) – a ‘big, beautiful creature’ at the University of Melbourne
20 January 2020Dr Suzanne Fraser is Centre Coordinator at the University of Melbourne's Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and was previously a lecturer in Art History at the University. As well as...- Victorian College of the Arts
- Research
Robert Walton on Child of Now and bringing your heart to work
10 January 2020A creative trailblazer, Victorian College of the Arts Theatre lecturer Robert Walton has been credited with creating the world’s first piece of iPad theatre and has tour...- Victorian College of the Arts
- Theatre
- Research
Four new faces at the Melbourne Conservatorium in 2020
23 December 20192020 promises to be an exciting year at the Melbourne Conservatorium, with milestone anniversaries, an incredible array of public performances, and teaching, research and musi...- Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
- Musicology
- Staff stories
- Jazz and Improvisation
- Music Performance
Corrie Chen, filmmaker: some advice for film and television graduates at the University of Melbourne
12 December 2019Award-winning filmmaker and television director Corrie Chen graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor Film and Television (Hons) in 2008, and a Master i...- Film and Television
- Victorian College of the Arts
- Alumni
Dr Kim Dunphy, Dance Movement Therapist: ‘It’s our moral obligation to make a contribution’
4 December 2019Digital archives of sung poems might seem a long way away from dance movement therapy, but for Dunphy it’s all part of a broader engagement with art, culture and communi...- Creative Arts Therapy
- Victorian College of the Arts
- Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
- Research
A chance for teachers to upskill and make music accessible to students with disabilities
3 December 2019A new course at the University of Melbourne will help equip music teachers with the skills to work with students with special needs and ensure they have equal access...- Music Therapy
- Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
- Short courses
Chris Kohn, VCA lecturer: putting diversity centre stage
28 November 2019Since 2016, Chris Kohn has been working on a PhD looking at theatre made by people with intellectual disabilities and those identifying as neurodiverse. Right now, though, he'...- Research
- Theatre
- Victorian College of the Arts
VCA ART GRAD.SHOW.2019 – it's time to get excited
27 November 2019Every year's VCA Art Grad Show is an event to remember, but this year it's bigger and better than ever....- Visual Art
- Victorian College of the Arts
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