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Conservatorium Streamed Concerts & Recordings

Watch the live-streamed concerts, on-demand recordings and webinars from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Hanson Dyer Hall Series

Staff and students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music present a series of free recitals. With everything from well-loved classics to new tonal horizons, there's something for every music lover.

Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series

The beloved Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series returns for 2026. Join us for intimate concerts featuring Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students.

Jazz and Improvisation at the Conservatorium

From jam sessions to curated concerts featuring students, mentors and guest artists. Check out everything on offer from Jazz & Improvisation at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

2026 Graduating Season

Celebrate the future of Australian fine arts and music with our students' most ambitious works. Explore this series of concerts, installations, theatre pieces and exhibitions.

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  • Composition Showcase: what you make of it.

    Wednesday 21 October 2026 - All day
    The Composition Honours cohort is proud to present ‘what you make of it’, a concert of all new premieres. Hear how each composer explores ‘connection’ - via themselves, their environment, architecture and musical structures. Featuring works by Francesco Rachetti, Joonwoo Kim, Oscar Jenkins-Wing a...
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  • Masters & Apprentices feat. Kris Davis

    Wednesday 21 October 2026 - All day
    Join Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Jazz & Improvisation students as they perform alongside GRAMMY‑winning pianist and composer Kris Davis, in this special Melbourne International Jazz Festival performance. Kris Davis has emerged as one of the most influential pianists and composers in...
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  • Unimelb Piano Society’s End-of-Semester Recital

    Thursday 22 October 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Come along for an incredible night of music with Unimelb Piano Society’s End-of-Semester Recital! Unimelb Piano Society is an UMSU (Student Union) associated club, with its members comprising of student and amateur pianists across faculties and disciplines. Program J.S. Bach The We...
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  • Tiento

    Thursday 22 October 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    The MCM’s Leading Edge Guitar Ensemble Presents a diverse program of music for guitars by Bensa, Brouwer, Guinga, Piazzolla, Bonfa, De Vries and Murray. Nicole Brady’s new piece Tiento, commissioned by Peter and Rasika Crowley, will be premiered by PhD guitarist Chrystian Dozza. Program O...
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  • Dee Dee Bridgewater in Conversation

    Friday 23 October 2026 - All day
    Hear from one of the most celebrated voices in jazz as GRAMMY and Tony Award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater sits down for an intimate artist talk. Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning more than four decades, Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists...
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  • World Music Concert - Spring

    Friday 23 October 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    Each semester University of Melbourne students learn musical traditions from around the world with our World Music Ensembles. At this year-end concert, celebrate their achievements at a concert featuring the Chinese Music Ensemble, African Music and Dance Ensemble, and World Music Choir.
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  • Tirsi morir volea

    Friday 23 October 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm
    The Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble presents a programme of settings of Giovanni Battista Guarini’s Tirsi morir volea by composers including Philippe de Monte, Luca Marenzio, Carl Luython, and Giaches de Wert on original instruments, with readings from the poetry of Guarini. Program Gio...
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  • Legally Blonde The Musical

    20 October 2026 - 24 October 2026
    Legally Blonde Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin | Book by Heather Hach Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All authorised performance materials are al...
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  • Legally Blonde The Musical

    20 October 2026 - 24 October 2026
    Legally Blonde Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin | Book by Heather Hach Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All authorised performance materials are al...
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  • Legally Blonde The Musical

    20 October 2026 - 24 October 2026
    Legally Blonde Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin | Book by Heather Hach Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All authorised performance materials are al...
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  • Legally Blonde The Musical

    20 October 2026 - 24 October 2026
    Legally Blonde Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin | Book by Heather Hach Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All authorised performance materials are al...
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  • Acid Wash

    Saturday 24 October 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Join the Conservatorium’s saxophone ensembles as they perform in their end of semester concert! Super Sax, a subset of our larger saxophone community plays jazz. You will hear cool, Latin and modal music from the later twentieth century. Featuring well know composers and performers like Herbi...
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  • Jazz and Improvisation Grad Showcase

    Monday 26 October 2026 - All day
    Celebrate extraordinary emerging talents in a night of music featuring graduating students from the Jazz and Improvisation department at the University of Melbourne. Explore more Faculty of Fine Arts and Music events here.
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  • Vocal Ensemble - 20th Anniversary Celebration!

    Monday 26 October 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    Celebrating 20 Years of Excellence For two decades, the Vocal Ensemble class has been a cornerstone of training and performance excellence for young artists. Under the direction of pianist Andrea Katz, the ensemble has served as a vital stepping stone for a new generation of opera and co...
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  • MYRIAD: Dances and Dragons

    Thursday 29 October 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm
    Join MYRIAD, the Percussion Ensemble of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, for their latest offering of percussion works. This semester, MYRIAD is honoured to be premiering a new percussion sextet written for them by distinguished Australian composer Emeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM...
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  • MCM Graduate Showcase 2026: Voice and Piano

    Friday 30 October 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm
    Join us in celebrating the achievements of the 2026 graduating classes from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music! Immerse yourself in a series of inspiring concerts featuring our talented students. You can view and book the other concerts in the series here. Program VOICE Genevie...
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  • MCM Graduate Showcase 2026: Brass, Woodwind and Composition

    Friday 30 October 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm
    Join us in celebrating the achievements of the 2026 graduating classes from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music! Immerse yourself in a series of inspiring concerts featuring our talented students. View and book the other concerts in the series here. Program BRASS Count 5 (Lulu L...
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  • MCM Graduate Showcase 2026: Percussion, Guitar, Strings, Chamber Music and Composition

    Friday 30 October 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm
    Join us in celebrating the achievements of the 2026 graduating classes from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music! Immerse yourself in a series of inspiring concerts featuring our talented students. View and book the other concerts in the series here. Program PERCUSSION Alicia Jeo...
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  • Jack Hancher - Guitar Perspectives

    Friday 30 October 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm
    Guitar Perspectives presents world renowned concert artist, Jack Hancher, live in concert. Described by Gramophone Magazine as a guitarist with “youthful intensity tempered by sophisticated musical intelligence”, Jack Hancher is a unique voice of the classical guitar. In 2022, he won the pres...
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  • Keyboard Festival 2026: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Complete Preludes and Fugues Opus 87

    31 October 2026 - 1 November 2026
    The Keyboard Area staff of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music invites pianists and music lovers alike for a rare opportunity to hear the complete 24 Preludes and Fugues of Dmitri Shostakovich at the 2026 Keyboard Festival. Among the most distinguished pianists in Australia, these performan...
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  • Keyboard Festival 2026: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Complete Preludes and Fugues Opus 87

    31 October 2026 - 1 November 2026
    The Keyboard Area staff of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music invites pianists and music lovers alike for a rare opportunity to hear the complete 24 Preludes and Fugues of Dmitri Shostakovich at the 2026 Keyboard Festival. Among the most distinguished pianists in Australia, these performan...
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  • World Music Concert - Gamelan Gong Semester 2 2026

    Monday 2 November 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm
    Each semester University of Melbourne students learn to perform musical traditions from Central Java on the UOM Gamelan. Come celebrate their achievements at a concert that also features the Melbourne Community Gamelan and Putra Panji Asmara.
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  • VCA Master of Theatre (Writing) Festival 2026

    11 November 2026 - 13 November 2026
    The 2026 Writers’ Festival is an opportunity for the graduating Master of Theatre (Writing) students to present a moved reading of their work to the public. There are five Master of Theatre (Writing) students in this current program of readings. Each play has been written to expresses their o...
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  • Who gets to imagine the future?

    Thursday 26 November 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm
    Presented by The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (University of Melbourne) in conjunction with The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA)  Professor Wesley Enoch (Chair of Creative Australia, DVC Indigenous Australia at QUT and Co-Chair of Annamila First Nations...
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  • The Art of Us 2026

    Thursday 3 December 2026 5:00pm - 8:00pm
    Join the students, staff and alumni of the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM) in a celebration of disability art in all its forms. Members of the FFAM community who identify as disabled, neurodivergent or Deaf will come together for a concert and multimedia exhibition...
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  • Southbank Series: Worlds Within

    Saturday 5 December 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    The final concert of the 2026 Southbank Series brings the season to a deeply reflective close under the direction of Eivind Aadland, Chief Conductor of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Program Missy Mazzoli: These Worlds in Us for Chamber Orchestra Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen fo...
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  • Gender Defying Jazz 2026

    8 November 2026 - 6 December 2026
    Gender Defying Jazz (GDJ) is a program run by Andrea Keller, Head of Jazz & Improvisation at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Beginning in 2017 and originally called Girls Do Jazz, the name of the program has been changed to Gender Defying Jazz, to more truly re...
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