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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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Upcoming Events

All elements speak their own language: Hong Kong video art 1980-1989

5 May 2022 - 22 May 2022
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The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Sunday 22 May 2022 5:00pm - 7:30pm
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Melbourne Conservatorium Choir

Tuesday 24 May 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Mongrel 2022
12 Apr 2022 - 13 Apr 2022

Music Theatre and Interactive Composition students collaborate to develop original works that are quick, hilarious, provocative and thoughtful. In our intimate cabaret setting...
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2022 Conservatorium Artist Portfolio Prize
Tuesday 5 Apr 2022 at 7:00pm - 7:00pm

Supported with artistic mentorship and career consultation, the winners of the 2022 Conservatorium Artist Portfolio Prize have developed projects that encapsulate their artist...
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The Fairy Queen
23 Mar 2022 - 25 Mar 2022

By Henry PurcellDirected by Jane DavidsonConducted by Donald NicolsonPurcell’s The Fairy Queen is a ‘semi-opera’ combining an adaptation of Shakespeare&rsquo...
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Latest News

18 May 2022

Ngioka Bunda-Heath is a Wakka Wakka, Ngugi and Birrpai dancer and storyteller whose choreographic works are a deep excavation of her cultural and ancestral histories. She is a...

17 May 2022

The 2022 academic year has ushered in a new Director of the VCA and a new suite of Associate Deans for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. These executive-level positions...

30 April 2022

The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia recently opened with artist Yuki Kihara’s ensemble exhibition, Para...

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