Undergraduate
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Music Performance
The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is one of the most vibrant centres for undergraduate and graduate music performance study in Australia.
Study Music Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
You will be led by internationally renowned teachers and performers who are there to guide and develop your instrumental or vocal potential to the fullest.
Our students enjoy numerous opportunities to develop their technique and awareness through all performance programs. In most programs you experience individual instrumental or vocal lessons, weekly performance classes, public concerts, and master classes with distinguished national and international performers.
Music Performance courses
Instrument areas
Brass
Brass at the Conservatorium emphasises group learning and camaraderie with a dedication to hands-on training.
Conducting
Our Conducting students learn a variety of techniques for mastery in their specialisation.
Early Music
We house a vast collection of early music resources and scores, and train our students in instrumental and vocal performance.
Guitar
Guitar at the Conservatorium is designed for students interested in the rich traditions of the guitar.
Harp
Harp students will be guided to expand their musical potential in three dimensions of playing.
Jazz and Improvisation
Celebrate great Australian Jazz and improvised music performance in a unique studio-intensive approach that nurtures future music performers and directors through repertoire, improvisation skills and technical studies.
Keyboard
Our Keyboard program is one of the largest and most distinguished of any tertiary music program in Australia.
Percussion
Graduating as a percussionist from the Conservatorium, you will be literate in the history and current practice of your craft.
Strings
The Conservatorium Strings program boasts a staff of the finest string players and teachers in Australia.
Woodwind
We have a long history of excellence in Woodwind performance, including graduates who have achieved international success.
I consider the faculty and individual tutors to be the most important people in developing my musicianship. The Conservatorium has some amazing staff on board who are very passionate about what they do. I decided to study at the Conservatorium due largely to the low brass teaching staff, particularly Timothy Buzbee. Alexander Jeantou
Bachelor of Music, specialisation in Music Performance
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Conservatorium Events
Meet the Orchestra: University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra pre-concert reception
Saturday 25 May 2019 at 6:00pm
Join students and staff from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for a special pre-concert reception for secondary school music students and music teachers.
This event will feature a pre-concert talk and give you the opportunity to meet with Richard Davis (Conductor), Professor Gary McPherson (...
University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 25 May 2019 at 7:30pm
The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s second performance for 2019 takes us to the heart of Europe as the Orchestra plays orchestral showpieces from that region.
The Orchestra opens with Dvorak’s vibrant Carnival Overture and Brahms’s St Anthony Variations. Finally, the Orchestra plays ...
Sense and Sensibility
Monday 27 May 2019 at 1:00pm
German music of the middle of the 18th century was undergoing rapid stylistic change, with many composers caught up in the 'empfindsamer Stil' (sensitive style), aiming for expression of natural feelings in intimate and subjective ways. But the best of these composers remained strong contrapuntists,...