Intimate Letter: Mimir Chamber Music Festival
An selection of chamber works presented as part of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival.
Fresh from its 27th season in the USA, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival returns to Melbourne to celebrate its 10th anniversary season in 2024. Featuring an ar...
Rachmaninoff’s Trio Élégiaque
The rarely performed Rachmaninoff Trio Élégiaque No.2 in D minor is a profound work written in memory of Tchaikovsky. Composed in 1893, there are many similarities with Tchaikovsky’s piano trio. It features a rich, emotional tapestry with lush harmonies and expre...
This recital is presented as part of the Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via our website.
Nighttime
Sarah Curro and Jacinta Dennett present the spellbinding sound of the violin and harp in a musical contemplation of night, undulati...
Get Up
Jazz and Improvisation students lead jam sessions. All music students welcome.
Event Schedule and Location
24 July 7PM - Lionel Lounge
14 August 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge
4 September 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge
Banner image: Gregory Lorenzutti, 2024.
ACCESSIBILITY
All...
New Music Studio: New Music 40
Celebrating new music by composers who are 40 in 2024. This concert will feature music by Melody Eötvös (Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music), Leilehua Lanzilotti (2023 University of Melbourne MacGeorge Bequest holder), Annie Hsieh (Melbourne Cons...
Art Forum: Kathy Temin
This session of Art Forum is presented in honour of Associate Professor Kate Daw 1965-2020
Combining oppositional dialogues such as minimalism and sentimentality, Kathy Temin’s work came into prominence within Australia and internationally in the 1990’s. Referencing...
This seminar is presented as part of the Louise Hanson Dyer Colloquia Series.
 
Louise Hanson-Dyer Colloquium: ‘the life-and-death interest people throw into music’: Musical liberalism, literature, and the late Victorian slum settlement movement
This event is supported by the ...
eveningsphere
eveningsphere is a triptych of outdoor light, projection, and sound installations by 2nd Year VCA Production students located around the buildings that border Linear Park on University of Melbourne’s Southbank Campus. Each group will compose a dynamic activation of a liminal out...
Interactive Composition Mega Day
Interactive Composition invites sound designers, songwriters, producers, DJs, music and sound makers of all genres, abilities and walks of life, to come experience a day at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music!
Interactive Composition Mega Day offers inte...
Voices of the Future
Join our upcoming stars from the Conservatorium’s Vocal Area, with program curator and Principal Répétiteur Andrea Katz. They will delight you with a dynamic program of solos and ensembles, from the Baroque to the Contemporary lyric repertoire. Music by Mozart, Rubinstein...
This performance is presented as part of the VCA Master of Theatre (Directing) Graduate Season.
Heart Blindness
Written by Oscar Bray | Directed by Chengwei Zhang
An absurd play about humans struggling to understand their place in the world.Five people through out from dark and tal...
This performance is presented as part of the VCA Master of Theatre (Directing) Graduate Season.
da dink inter alia
Written and directed by Tim Wotherspoon
A rhapsodic ensemble battles psychosis and alienated design to come together for the sake of imagining.I don’t want to ...
This recital is presented as part of the Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via our website.
Russian Sonatas
Three great Russian sonatas belonging to the ‘golden’ era of Russian music, two of which are rarely performed.
PROGRAM
P...
Collisions
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 Conservator...
This recital is presented as part of the Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via our website.
Strings Showcase Concert
The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music proudly presents an array of solo and small ensemble performances by our out...
LA Philharmonic Wind Quintent in Melbourne
Experience a wonderful and intimate concert as the world-renowned LA Philharmonic Wind Quintet makes a very special visit to the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Join Andrew Bain (horn), Whitney Crockett (bassoon), Boris Allakhverdyan (clarinet) De...
This recital is presented as part of the Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via our website.
Singing Stone: a celebration of the music of Christopher Sainsbury
The launch of the ABC Classic recording Singing Stone. Leading Australian gui...
This performance is presented as part of the VCA Master of Theatre (Directing) Graduate Season.
Maternal INSTINKT: A coming of Rage story
Written and directed by Michelle Hall
Michelle is a Nice Lady, a mum on school pick-up, a rabbit-in-the headlights and her sweating has gotten i...
Grant!
Jazz sessions and art transmissions curated by students from the Conservatorium’s Jazz & Improvisation program. Featuring special guest performers each week: some old, some borrowed, some outright stolen, and some kind of blue.
Event Schedule
7 August 7PM - Lionel Lounge
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Art Forum: Naoise Halloran Mackay
Naoise Halloran Mackay is a painter based in Naarm.
Gently referencing architecture, Naoise Halloran-Mackay’s paintings suggest transition and possibility. His ‘doorways’ and ‘windows’ can be understood as thresholds between humankind and nature, interior...
This seminar is presented as part of the Louise Hanson Dyer Colloquia Series.
Empirical Musicology: Mixing Modern Methods with Early Polyphony
Empirical Musicology: Mixing Modern Methods with Early Polyphony The digital humanities can appear daunting to the uninitiated. At a time when uni...
This concert is part of the Guitar Perspectives concert series.
Guitar Perspectives Instrument Showcase
A showcase of plucked string instruments from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music collections featuring Brazilian instruments, Australian made guitars, theorbo, mandolin, 10 string gu...
Operatic Adventure
Beloved opera scenes and a newly devised piece performed by the Master of Music (Opera Performance) students. After workshops with Victorian Opera, the students now bring this lively program of favourites together in an evening of operatic adventure.
CREATIVES
Staff...
Directing, Writing and Dramaturgy for the Contemporary Theatre: A Conversation
Directing, Writing and Dramaturgy are integral to VCA Theatre: As an institution, how do we foster contemporary practice and new ideas within the local and international theatre ecology?
This event is a panel d...
This recital is presented as part of the Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via our website.
Woodwind Showcase Concert
Featuring students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, this concert will showcase a wonderful array of mu...
Jazz & Improvisation Honours/Graduate Research Students & Staff
An evening of original improvised music presented by Honours and Graduate Research students and staff from the Jazz & Improvisation area.
CREATIVE CREDITS
Dylan van der Schyff (Honours and Graduate Research co...
Jazz and Improvisation Large Ensemble Feast
A night of eclectic sounds with the Jazz and Improvisation department showcasing the talents of our emerging contemporary improvisers and staff, as they perform in large ensembles.
Featuring Masters & Apprentices directed by Barney McAll, Bi...
PHASES
A performance event created by Joshua Pether in collaboration with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) as part of Alter State 2024.
Phases I II & III explores the notion of duration as an extension of the performance time and...
PHASES
A performance event created by Joshua Pether in collaboration with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) as part of Alter State 2024.
Phases I II & III explores the notion of duration as an extension of the performance time and...
PHASES
A performance event created by Joshua Pether in collaboration with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) as part of Alter State 2024.
Phases I II & III explores the notion of duration as an extension of the performance time and...
East Meets West
The event is a live music performance, the purpose of the event is to give the students the chance to perform in a public space. The students use Chinese instruments to play music from the West and East.
PROGRAM
Nona Nona
Malay folk song
The Chinese Orchestra
Arran...
Jazz and Improvisation Small Ensemble Series
These concerts present original small ensemble music from second and third year students in the Jazz and Improvisation program at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Hear a new generation of creative musicians!
Event Schedule
7 October 7...