Please join us for a special lecture by Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow Professor Taiwo Afolabi.
In times of crisis and upheaval, the performing arts can play a vital role in envisioning more just and equitable futures. Drawing from his extensive international research and practice, P...
Unbound Frequencies showcases new composer-performer works from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Interactive Composition community. Exploring synthesis, audiovisual performance, spatial sound, and experimental music practices, the program traverses immersive sonic environments, live electr...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Presented by VCA Design & Production
Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.
The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
Please join us for a Macgeorge Fellow lecture by Professor Amelia Jones (Robert A. Day Professor at Roski School of Art & Design, University of Southern California).
LIFEWORK vs. Work of Art
This lecture will build on the research and thinking of Professor Jones’s single-author book i...
Join our Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) students in their annual showcase concert. You will hear the entire cohort perform alongside elite musicians from our city’s professional orchestras. The concert will be introduced by members of the ensemble and directed by Richard Davis and Tim B...
A free talk presented by Amelia Jones as part of the Art Forum series.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor at Roski School of Art & Design, USC, in Los Angeles and has taught and lectured around the world at institutions including University of Manchester, the Sorbonne (Paris), Univer...
We are inviting high school students and singing teachers with an interest in classical voice to join us for a celebration of all things singing with Conservatorium staff, students and alumni at a free Classical Voice Mega Day. Participants will engage in workshops, masterclasses and rehearsals, ...
Join renowned pianist Kristian Chong in Bach works for keyboard and works for other instruments that have been transcribed and reimagined by masterful composers Liszt and Busoni for the piano.
Opening with grandeur, Bach’s Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue remains one of his most daring and innova...
Quercus Trio, pioneers in celebrating Australian horn trios, present trios by Don Banks and John Polglase alongside Stuart Greenbaum’s horn trio “Earth-Like,” a world premiere exploring our search for habitable worlds and what makes us human. From cosmic conditions for life to intimat...
A free talk presented by Paul Donald as part of the Art Forum series.
Paul Donald was born and raised in New Zealand before attending Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting. After living for several years in Ma...
A Musical Tribute to the Legacy of Louise Hanson-Dyer
In a tribute to the great 20th century patron of the arts and music publisher, Louise Hanson-Dyer, mesmerising mezzo-soprano Dimity Shepherd partners with pianist Caroline Almonte to present a breathtakingly diverse collection of works com...
A free talk presented by Emmanuel Rodriguez as part of the Art Forum series.
Emmanuel Rodríguez Chaves is a Costa Rican visual artist whose practice treats the image as a phenomenological device—experienced through gaze, memory, and affect—rather than a fixed representation. Over more than a ...
The Sonata as Storytelling explores the sonata as a powerful vehicle for musical narrative, bringing together two masterpieces that reveal the expressive possibilities of the form across two centuries.
Composed in the final months of his life, Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D959 unfolds ...
A free talk presented by Kyla McFarlane on the work of Cate Consandine (1970-2026), as part of the Art Forum series.
Working across film, performance and sculpture, Cate Consandine’s works explore the physical expression of psychological and emotional states, centering on the relationship bet...
Jazz and Improvisation students lead jam sessions. All music students welcome.
Get Up Schedule
29 July 2026, 7PM - Lionel Lounge
19 August 2026, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge
9 September 2026, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge
Venue
This jam session takes place in Lionel’s Lounge. Please ente...
Collisions brings together musicians, dancers and artists for a night of cross-disciplinary improvisation and collaboration.
Celebrating spontaneity, experimentation and the new - Collisions is a series of interdisciplinary improv nights curated by students from the Conservatorium Jazz and Im...
Students from the Conservatorium’s Jazz & Improvisation program curate their own Battle of the Bands competition.
Schedule
Heat 1 : Wednesday 12 August, 7PM - Lionel Lounge
Heat 2: Wednesday 2 September, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge
Finals: Wednesday 23 September, 7PM - Lionel’s Loun...