VCA events

• Melba Hall 18: Chamber Choir

  Monday 12 October 2026 1:10pm - 2:00pm

  The much-loved Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series returns for Semester 2 2026. Each week will feature a different instrument or area, performed by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and facilitated by academic staff. Join us for an intimate ...

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• Jazz and Improvisation Small Ensemble Series #2 2026

  12 October 2026 - 13 October 2026

  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! Small Ensemble Series Schedule 12 October 2026, 7PM - Federation Hall 13 ...

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• Jazz and Improvisation Small Ensemble Series #2 2026

  12 October 2026 - 13 October 2026

  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! Small Ensemble Series Schedule 12 October 2026, 7PM - Federation Hall 13 ...

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• Canticles, rivers and horns: a homage to Britten

  Tuesday 13 October 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm

  Join tenor Michael Petruccelli, pianist Andrea Katz, and horn player Carla Blackwood as they mark the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s passing. This special program pairs Britten’s deeply expressive 20th-century masterpieces with the timeless lyricism of his favorite composer, Franz Sch...

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• Ripple Effect

  Wednesday 14 October 2026 - All day

  In its final concert of the year, the University of Melbourne Wind Symphony explores music shaped by the ocean, waterways and the landscapes and stories that surround them. Steven Bryant’s Ecstatic Waters opens the program with a vivid, immersive sound world of shimmering textures, powerful ...

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• ASQ and MCM in Concert: An Evening of String Quartets

  Thursday 15 October 2026 7:30pm - 10:00pm

  Join the Australian String Quartet and talented young musicians from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for a special evening celebrating the art of chamber music. The culmination of the ASQ’s residency at the Conservatorium, this concert brings together professional artists and emerging music...

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• Overtures: Stories, Legends & Landscapes

  Friday 16 October 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm

  MCM Philharmonic Orchestra Hansel and Gretel - fairy tale William Tell - legend Fingal’s Cave - landscape Romeo and Juliet - story Join the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert filled with drama, romance, adventu...

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• Melbourne Conservatorium Big Band and Jazz Orchestra

  Sunday 18 October 2026 6:00pm - 8:30pm

  Experience the energy and excitement of large ensemble jazz as the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Big Band and Jazz Orchestra take to the stage at Kenneth Myer Auditorium. Featuring some of the Conservatorium’s emerging jazz and improvising musicians, the two ensembles present a dynamic...

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• Melba Hall 19: Chamber Competition Finals

  Monday 19 October 2026 1:10pm - 2:00pm

  The much-loved Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series returns for Semester 2 2026. Each week will feature a different instrument or area, performed by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and facilitated by academic staff. Join us for an intimate ...

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• Disintegration

  Tuesday 20 October 2026 - All day

  Humans are social creatures. Society is changing. We are in danger. Disintegration, choreographed by the Dancing the Dance 2 Cohort, follows the journey from humanity’s conception to its Disintegration. The cohort’s developmental process reduced the timeline of human socialisation to five ke...

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• Conservatorium Choir - Semester 2 2026

  Tuesday 20 October 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm

  Conservatorium Choir is a large choir open to all voice types, focusing on Western choral repertoire, both sacred and secular, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Over the semester singers have improved their singing skills, including learning to pronounce texts in different...

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• Dedications

  Tuesday 20 October 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm

  The Sutherland Trio (Caroline Almonte, Molly Kadarauch and Elizabeth Sellars) together with their friends Danielle and Luca Arcaro perform an all-Australian program of works connected to the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music community. Featuring two world premieres, ‘Songs for Manny’ by Ella Mace...

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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