Coming up hosted by Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Wednesday16Oct2019
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jazz & Improvisation Large Ensemble Series
PerformanceThe Conservatorium’s Jazz & Improvisation program showcase their eclectic range of large ensembles, featuring staff and emerging contemporary improvisers. We strongly encourage booking in advance for all of our events. This guarantees your seat, ...
- 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Honours Composition Concert 2
PerformanceNew works presented by Bachelor of Music (Honours) Composition students.
- 16 October - 20 October
Bauhaus Now
ExhibitionGuest curated by Ann Stephen In the year of its centenary the Bauhaus returns to haunt our museums. How do contemporary artists reimagine a relationship to this legendary school? Are they scavengers raiding the ruins of modernism, appropriators o...
- 12 October - 03 November
Afterstorm: Gardens, War, Conflict
ExhibitionWithin the perspective of a century of unrest, this exhibition explores the ways in which gardens and plants have unexpected relationships with times of turbulence. Gardens have offered refuge as places of rehabilitation and healing. The plants g...
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday17Oct2019
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wilin Jams
PerformanceWilin Jams is an open invitation for everyone to come together, jam and celebrate the pivotal contributions of Indigenous artists and community members throughout Victoria. Our final Jams for the year is proudly delivered in partnership with Univ...
- 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism Exhibition Opening
ExhibitionHope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is an exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary. The project focuses on how artists consider the deple...
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sovereign Language Rematriation
Free Public Lecture2019 Lin Onus Oration For the 2019 Lin Onus Oration, Dr Lou Bennett will give an overview of her work in language retrieval, regeneration and reclamation over the past 30 years as a practising artist and academic. Dr Bennett’s project, 'Sovereig...
PresentersDr Lou Bennett
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Friday18Oct2019
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Conservatorium String Ensemble
PerformanceThe endofyear lunch hour concert by the String Ensemble features a program of popular works performed by Conservatorium students and conducted by Richard Davis.
- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Breathing Dreams Like Air
Performance‘A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…’ This performance features: Hindmith Sonata for Cor Anglais and Piano Rachmaninov Vocalise op34 (cor anglais and piano) Gershw...
- 18 October - 19 October
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism Exhibition
ExhibitionHope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is an exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary. The project focuses on how artists consider the deple...
- 18 October - 20 October
LuNa - 2019 VCA Master of Directing for Performance Graduate Season
PerformanceCali and Nira are nonidentical twins. Before they were born, their genes were edited to make them immune to a disease associated with memory loss. The procedure had never been attempted before. It was a choice based on theory. A choice with an unk...
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Saturday19Oct2019
Sunday20Oct2019
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Hashed Out - 2019 VCA Master of Directing for Performance Graduate Season
PerformanceHashed Out explores interpersonal connections between everyday people in an evolving world where our reliance on social media and digital presence is ever growing. Directed by Christian Cavallo. Music, Lyrics & Book by Kurt Kansley & Oliver Lide...
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
University of Melbourne Wind Symphony: Suite Images
PerformanceIn the final program of the year, the Suite Images concert showcases both of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s wind ensembles: the Concert Band and Wind Symphony. The performance highlights Gustav Holst’s iconic First Suite in Eflat and Ste...
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Monday21Oct2019
Tuesday22Oct2019
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Conservatorium Choir
PerformanceThe Conservatorium Choir comprises a significant number of Conservatorium students, along with breadth students from across the University. This concert is the culmination of a semester’s work and will be led by Conductor Rick Prakhoff. The highl...
- 22 October - 26 October
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism Exhibition
ExhibitionHope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is an exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary. The project focuses on how artists consider the deple...
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday23Oct2019
Thursday24Oct2019
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Conservatorium Choir
PerformanceThe Conservatorium Choir comprises a significant number of Conservatorium students, along with breadth students from across the University. This concert is the culmination of a semester’s work and will be led by Conductor Rick Prakhoff. The highl...
- 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Philharmonic Orchestra
PerformanceIn their final concert for 2019, the Philharmonic Orchestra will play Dvorák’s mighty 9th Symphony, From the New World. In 1893, when he composed the work, Dvorák was Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America (a conservatoire open ...
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Friday25Oct2019
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
World Music Choir & Shakuhachi Ensemble Spring Concert
PerformanceDr Joseph Jordania leads World Music Choir students in a performance of choral styles from around the world, followed by traditional and modern music from Japan performed by the Shakuhachi Ensemble, directed by Adam Simmons.
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Guitar Ensemble Concert
PerformanceThe Conservatorium Leading Edge Guitar Ensemble present: Desafinado, with music by Steve Mackey, Stephen Goss, Hermeto Pascoal and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
- 25 October - 26 October
Afterstorm
SymposiumThis free twoday symposium responds to the exhibition and explores the ways in which gardens and plants have unexpected relationships with times of turbulence. Featuring presentations and panel discussions on the place of gardens within the movem...
- 25 October - 27 October
Theban Dolls – 2019 VCA Master of Directing for Performance Graduate Season
PerformanceThe god of wine and theatre, Dionysus, has returned to his birthplace with a hedonistic band of glitterclad disciples, and the King will do anything in his power to stop them. As this timeless clash of old and new, establishment and subversion, c...
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Monday28Oct2019
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Conservatorium Saxophone Showcase Concert
PerformanceThe Conservatorium’s Saxophone Ensemble, conducted by Joseph Lallo, is a group formed from the talented saxophonists at the University of Melbourne. Boasting full sections of soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, the ensemble perform...
- 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conservatorium Big Band
PerformanceConductor: Remco Keijzer Comprising five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones, piano, bass, guitar and drums, the Conservatorium Big Band performs a selection of favourites as well as new works.
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuesday29Oct2019
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Ecstasy and The Agony: A Night of Oratorio
PerformanceVocal Ensemble Music Director: Andrea Katz The Vocal Ensemble, under the direction of pianist Andrea Katz, presents a program of Oratorio ensembles and choirs. The beauty of Bach, Handel and Mozart match the passion of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Ti...
- 29 October - 02 November
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism Exhibition
ExhibitionHope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is an exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary. The project focuses on how artists consider the deple...
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday30Oct2019
- 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Choir
PerformanceThe Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Choir performs in the glorious acoustic of St Paul's Cathedral in this lunchtime concert connecting the music of the late classical period to the new and exciting contemporary choral landscape of our time.
- 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Four Directions: 1st & 2nd Year Works
PerformanceAn evening of contemporary dance featuring new works by Michelle Heaven, Prue Lang, Jo Lloyd and Anna Smith. Presented by: Dance and Production As part of the season there will be a PostShow Forum on Friday 1st November. Chaired by Head of Dance...
- 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm