Music Education At Melbourne

01/06/2026

We had a lovely afternoon in our final class for the Semester in Music A1 (classroom music). We explored gamelan, principles for working with culturally diverse musics in a respectful, meaningful and appropriate way and the curriculum including the cross-curriculum priority Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia. A huge well done to our students who always engage in deeply relational conversations and reflections in a thoughtful and insightful way. And it was wonderful to welcome two inspiring colleagues from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney A/P James Humberstone and Dr Brad Fuller who popped in to see our music studio in action and joined in our discussions.

This year we celebrate 10 years of arts education in Studio 5. We are so proud of the pedagogy that is afforded by these spaces which has been refined over many years of research and practice by current The Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne arts academics and the wonderful colleagues who came before us.

29/05/2026

Sue Arney and Emily Wilson had a fantastic evening yesterday at the The Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne student awards evening. Huge congratulations to all the pre-service and graduate teachers who received awards. We were so proud to see so many students from the music learning areas receiving awards. All these students are outstanding music educators and we were so pleased to see their hard work and dedication acknowledged! Many many congratulations to: Ellen Block received the ASME Victoria Award, this was presented by Matthew Liam who is current chair of ASME Victoria, MTeach graduate and current MEd (Reseach) student, and a previous recipient of this award himself! Daniel Light received the Indigenous Knowledge and Community Award. Jayden Galbraith received the George Bryce McIndoe Prize. Sarah McDiarmid was awarded the Manuel Gelman Award and also shared a beautiful performance on flute of a Telemann Fantasia. Graduate of the MTeach Internship Secondary, Rex Sutton received the Alumni Early Career Award and gave an inspiring and uplifting speech of his work at Saltwater P-9 College. And Jake Campbell who received the Freda Cohen Prize for his MEd (Research) thesis.

27/05/2026

Yesterday was WOODWIND DAY in our Music B class! We were joined by special guests Sam Ford from Polygon, who lend us class sets of brass, woodwind and orchestral stringed instruments each week for students to experience for the first time, and Stuart Brownley from D'Addario, who came to give everyone their very first lesson on flute, clarinet and alto sax!
We’re so grateful for the vital partnerships.

26/05/2026

ASME Victoria is very very excited to announce Sound Connections: Victorian State Music Education Conference to be held at Scotch College Sept 30 and Oct 1. Bringing together music education organisations and presenters from all over Victoria, working together, to make this the biggest music education conference possible! Early bird registration is now open, we would love you all to join us!

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26/05/2026

Yesterday in Music A we were all fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musician, Songkeeper and UoM Indigenous Knowledges Institute PhD candidate Jessie Lloyd. Jessie shared stories and songs from Jessie's Classroom including the amazing website resources that are now available for all teachers and so generously shared free of charge. It was a great workshop and wonderful for our students to make connections between what they have been learning in the First Nations in Education subject and the music learning areas. Huge thankyou Jessie Lloyd for such an inspiring and engaging workshop.

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22/05/2026

PRIMARY PERFORMING ARTS MINI-CONFERENCE 2.0
Great news! The response to the recent Primary Performing Arts Mini-Conference presented by ASME Vic, Ausdance and Drama Victoria with the support of the Department of Education was so overwhelming that we are producing a repeat event in a few weeks time!
Wednesday, 3 June, 2026
8.30am - 4.00pm
DE Performing Arts Unit, 83-85 Cromwell Street, Collingwood
No registration charge to Government Schools as this is a Department of Education-supported event.
Government Schools - reimbursement for the cost of a Casual Relief Teacher
Non-government schools to pay a $99.00 registration fee - register and an invoice will be arranged.
Click her for all details and to register: https://tinyurl.com/5fsbenbs

21/05/2026

Todd Robinson, a current MTeach (sec) Music Learning Area candidate, will be a featured composer at Grainger Wind Symphony's "Made in Australia 2026" concert this weekend!
We're so proud of Todd and his compositional achievements, and of his inclusion in this fabulous program.

GWS Made In Australia Project 2026 for emerging composers for wind symphony. Presenting Todd Robinson from Melbourne. Saturday 30th May in Kew, Melbourne.

19/05/2026

What a wonderful evening we all had at our biennial Music Education Graduate Researcher Poster Session. We welcomed Victorian music education graduate researchers from Latrobe University, Edith Cowan University, the Indigenous Knowledges Institute at UoM, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at UoM and of course from the Faculty of Education. Some people were presenting for the very first time and others have just completed their PhD and MEd! Huge thankyou to Dr Fiona King for organising. Massive congratulations to all the presenters: Jessie Lloyd, Tiffany Cheok, Katie Hull-Brown, Catherine Schmidt, Luiza Mesquita, Samuel Segun, Olivia Jackson, Matt Roche, Brianna Kavanagh, Cynthia Howard The Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne

17/05/2026

Good luck to our 2nd year MTeach secondary music learning area pre-service teachers as they begin their final placement tomorrow! We are so proud of them and the wonderful, thoughtful, reflective, kind and skillful music educators that they are already. And a huge thankyou to all the amazing mentor teachers, student teacher co-ordinators and schools for once again sharing their time and expertise in helping to prepare the next generation of music teachers. We are so grateful 🙏

06/05/2026

We're so excited to be hosting the VOSA Levels 1 & 2 courses in our Music and Drama studios in July - come and learn from the amazing Orff presenters!