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.

Options to suit your creative pathway

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

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

Have you studied at the Victorian College of the Arts or the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music? Make sure that your contact information is up-to-date to receive news, offers and opportunities.

More about alumni

3,125

core degree students across the Faculty

1st

in Australia for performing arts

$200M

invested in world-class facilities since 2010

Upcoming Events

  • Firebird Trio presents ‘Modern Times’

    Tuesday 18 March 2025 7:30pm - 8:45pm
    Presented by Australia’s acclaimed Firebird Trio, this 70-minute program takes inspiration from the re-composition of musical ideas and fragments of the past for more ‘modern’ times. Composed within a few years of each other, the trios of Charles Ives and Maurice Ravel brim with fragments of the ...
  • Art Forum: Peter Atkins

    Thursday 20 March 2025 12:15pm - 1:15pm
    Peter Atkins’ practice centres around the appropriation and re-interpretation of readymade abstract forms that he documents within the urban environment. This collected material becomes the direct reference source for his work, providing tangible evidence to the viewer of his relationship and exp...
  • 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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