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Wilin Winter Intensive nurtures Indigenous operatic talent
6 June 2013

15 Indigenous singers will learn from the nation’s top performers as Australia’s National Indigenous Opera Company takes up residence at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts this week.

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Perfect harmony: Is singing ability in twins inherited?
9 May 2013

A world-first study will investigate if singing ability is inherited in twins.

Led by the University of Melbourne with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Twin Registry, the study will explore if it is nature or nurture that most influences whether we can sing a pitch-perfect tune.

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Celebrated musicologist and critic Roger Covell to receive Bernard Heinze Memorial Award
11 February 2013

Eminent Australian musicologist, critic and author Roger Covell will receive the 2013 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

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Musician Ravi Shankar honoured with new scholarship
17 October 2012

The University of Melbourne will establish a new scholarship in honour of renowned Indian composer and performer, Dr Ravi Shankar.

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Calling all Music Theatre writers for the next big hit
3 October 2012

The Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne is calling on Music Theatre writers to submit new works, which could be developed into a major stage hit.

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Emerging Indigenous dancers to join Wilin Spring Intensive
17 September 2012

Seven talented young Aboriginal dancers from around the country will take part in the Wilin Spring Intensive for Indigenous contemporary dance at the Victorian College of Arts this week (17-21 September).

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Leading international artists descend on Melbourne to teach and perform.
4 September 2012

The Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music will have a rich international flavour over the coming weeks, with four renowned foreign artists visiting to teach students.

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School music program to help Black Saturday survivors.
22 August 2012

The University of Melbourne will run a series of music workshops for teenagers in communities still recovering from the Black Saturday bushfires, culminating in a Melbourne concert.

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Composer Carl Vine wins Bernard Heinze Memorial Award
18 February 2012

One of Australia's finest composers Carl Vine has been honored as the recipient of the 2012 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

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Australia’s future opera stars to study in Melbourne
20 December 2011

Eight of the country’s best and brightest opera singers have been selected for a new National Graduate Opera Program that will run next year as part of a collaboration between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne and Victorian Opera.

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