"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything" - attrib. Plato
On 6 April 2009, the Faculty of the VCA and Music was established from the former Faculty of Music and Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts. The integration of these two faculties resulted in the creation of a single School of Music within the Faculty, at the University of Melbourne. The strengths of two nationally prominent music schools have now joined to form the largest University School of Music in Australia.
The School of Music offers outstanding national and internationally recognised programs of the highest quality in performance, improvisation, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, music education and music therapy. The School also provides a variety of pathways into professional graduate coursework programs, and strengthens interaction with both the profession, and research and research higher degree education, locally, nationally and internationally.
In 2010, the School of Music will offer two music courses. The Bachelor of Music is offered for students who would like to specialise in performance, composition, musicology or ethnomusicology. The Bachelor of Music Performance is offered for students wishing to specialise in Improvisation.
Breadth Studies in Music are available to students in non-Music courses.
The new generation Diploma in Music (Practical) is studied concurrently with a new generation undergraduate degree - Arts, Science, Commerce, Biomedicine or Environments - and provides University of Melbourne students the opportunity to engage in one-to-one instrumental and vocal tuition. The Diploma has been specially structured over a 3-year time frame to allow for concurrent completion of both Bachelor and Diploma courses.
Read the profiles of some of our current and former students.