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A person playing piano with an audience of senior adults singing and seated in the background
06
Mar
2026

CMC Celebrates Our Seniors

 The Community Music Centre prides itself on providing access to musical experiences for all ages, and this March we will have the opportunity to celebrate and showcase our more senior…

ANU Orchestra & ANU Jazz Orchestra 2025. Image: Yun Hu/ ANU
03
Feb
2026

Applications Now Open! ANU Orchestra and ANU Jazz Orchestra Auditions Semester 1, 2026

Are you an orchestral musician looking to play in the ANU Orchestra in 2026?Housed at the ANU School of Music and conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin, the ANU Orchestra offers a unique opportunity to…

Image: Jazz & Contemporary Ensembles Concerts 2025. Photo by Yun Hu/ ANU
30
Jan
2026

Niels Rosendahl Music Award now open for applications

 Apply hereEach year the School of Music (‘the School’) within the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (‘the College’) may offer one award known as the Niels Rosendahl Music Award. The…

Image: The Gathering. Photp by Murrawarri/Ngiyambaa/Wiradjuri Photographer Stephen Wilson Barker
21
Jan
2026

Inaugural First Nations Composers Gathering Concludes Successfully at ANU

In a first ever event of its kind, the Australian National University School of Music successfully concluded the inaugural Australasian First Nations Composers Gathering and Conference over the final…

Photo: Lannon Harley/ANU
19
Dec
2025

ANU School of Music and National Folk Festival announce new partnership

Music students from The Australian National University (ANU) will have the opportunity to learn from internationally acclaimed Finnish folk trio T3HO, thanks to a new partnership between the ANU…

Wamburang Women's choir on stage
03
Dec
2025

Wamburang Women's Choir: warbling out 2025 in final concert for the year

The ANU Community Music Centre's, Wamburang Women's Choir have been very active in the Canberra music scene in 2025. They've talked (and sung!) with ABC radio, performed at Parliament House,…

Professor Kenneth Lampl is constantly charting new ground. Photo: Jame Kidston/ANU
05
Nov
2025

A musical metamorphosis: Kenneth Lampl is mastering the art of reinvention

There’s no better gift for a budding musician than growing up in New Jersey – home to one of the world’s greatest jazz scenes. Music was ever-present in childhood for ANU professor and composer…