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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.

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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.

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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.

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Upcoming Events

Third Year Composition Concert

Wednesday 12 May 2021 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Art Forum: Nina Sanadze

Thursday 13 May 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm
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Art Forum: Rosemary Laing

Thursday 13 May 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm
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The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sunday 2 May 2021
Sunday 2 May 2021

Conductor: Richard DavisProgramBRITTENSimple Symphony, Op. 4PROKOFIEVPiano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26. Soloist: Hannah ShinTCHAIKOVSKYSymphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64Full cr...
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Mongrel 2021
Wednesday 21 Apr 2021

See what happens when graduating Music Theatre and Interactive Composition students bring together their creative talents to forge new directions for music theatre creative wo...
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W.A Mozart – Die Zauberflöte by Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Opera students
Thursday 18 Mar 2021 at 3:43pm - 3:43pm

During the second COVID 2020 lockdown in Victoria, the Master of Music in Opera Performance students at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, continu...
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Graduation Show

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Latest News

22 April 2021

Moonis Ahmad Shah tells Sharon Grace Flynn about using interdisciplinary methodologies to create "counter archives", completing his PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts an...

22 April 2021

Monica Lim’s practice investigates the composition of sound through movement. Her electromagnetic piano, created in collaboration with composer and lecturer David Shea f...

26 March 2021

Michael Bentham’s debut feature film Disclosure premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival and Berlinale in early 2020. The film is screening at Cinema Nova...

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