Niels Rosendahl Music Award now open for applications
Each 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 objective/s of…
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…
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: 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,…
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…
A Week in the Life of the Community Music Centre
It’s Monday afternoon, and five tutors from the Community Music Centre (CMC) are on their way to Gugan Gulwan Aboriginal Youth Centre in Wanniassa to work with young people attending the music drop-…
Name a First Nations Composer. Many of You Can’t. But that’s about to change.
Most Australians can name First Nations actors, authors, or visual artists, but far fewer could name a First Nations composer working in classical or new music. Yet over the past decade, this field…