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  • Intimate Letters: Mimir Chamber Music Festival

    Sunday 1 September 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm
    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

    Monday 2 September 2024 1:10pm - 2:00pm
    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...
  • Nighttime

    Tuesday 3 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    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

    Wednesday 4 September 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    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

    Wednesday 4 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:45pm
    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

    Thursday 5 September 2024 12:15pm - 1:15pm
    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...
  • The life-and-death interest people throw into music: Musical liberalism, literature, and the late Victorian slum settlement movement

    Thursday 5 September 2024 5:30pm - 7:30pm
    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

    Friday 6 September 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    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

    Sunday 8 September 2024 10:00am - 6:00pm
    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

    Monday 9 September 2024 1:10pm - 2:00pm
    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...
  • Heart Blindness

    6 September 2024 - 9 September 2024
    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...
  • da dink inter alia

    6 September 2024 - 9 September 2024
    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 ...
  • Russian Sonatas

    Tuesday 10 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    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

    Wednesday 11 September 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    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...
  • Strings Showcase Concert

    Monday 16 September 2024 1:10pm - 2:00pm
    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 Quintet in Melbourne

    Monday 16 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    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...
  • Singing Stone: A Celebration of Music by Christopher Sainsbury

    Tuesday 17 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    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...
  • Maternal INSTINKT: A coming of Rage story

    16 September 2024 - 18 September 2024
    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!

    Wednesday 18 September 2024 7:00pm - 10:00pm
    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 ...
  • Art Forum: Naoise Halloran Mackay

    Thursday 19 September 2024 12:15pm - 1:15pm
    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...
  • Empirical Musicology: Mixing Modern Methods with Early Polyphony

    Friday 20 September 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm
    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...
  • Guitar Perspectives Instrument Showcase

    Friday 20 September 2024 7:30pm - 8:30pm
    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

    Saturday 21 September 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm
    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

    Monday 23 September 2024 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    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...
  • Woodwind Showcase Concert

    Monday 30 September 2024 1:10pm - 2:00pm
    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

    Tuesday 1 October 2024 7:30pm - 8:30pm
    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

    Thursday 3 October 2024 6:00pm - 10:00pm
    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

    3 October 2024 - 5 October 2024
    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

    3 October 2024 - 5 October 2024
    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

    3 October 2024 - 5 October 2024
    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

    Monday 7 October 2024 1:10pm - 2:00pm
    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

    Monday 7 October 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    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...