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Blue Room Sessions applications open!
Are you keen to get some performing experience? Apply now for the Community Music Centre's, Blue Room Sessions for your chance to perform at the ANU School of Music! We will be hosting three…

Professor Christopher Sainsbury featured on ABC’s Music Class
Professor Christopher Sainsbury, an accomplished composer, guitarist, and highly experienced music educator at the ANU School of Music, was recently featured on ABC’s Music Class (Saturday 13 July)…

The Future of Music at ANU: A Message to Our Community
To our Community, We know there’s been confusion and concern in the media about the future of the School of Music and two separate processes have become conflated. First and most importantly…

Breaking barriers: Professor Samantha Bennett recognised for championing under-represented students
Professor Samantha Bennett always saw higher education as alien territory. Growing up in a working-class household where no one in her family had been to university, she attended what she describes…

Applications now open: Friends Ensemble Prize 2025
Friends Ensemble Prize 2025 The Friends of the ANU School of Music established its ensemble prizes to promote ensemble playing in the tertiary student cohort, in all musical genres taught at the ANU…

Applications are now open for the Friends of the School of Music Transition Award for 2025.
Applications are now open for the Friends of the School of Music Transition Award for 2025. The objective of the award is to assist a School of Music graduate with the transition between formal study…

Within seconds there was a dolphin right underneath me
ANU School of Music staff members Dr Sally Walker, Matthew Barnes and Professor Christopher Sainsbury are at the forefront of innovative music research, drawing together performance, composition and…