Faculty of the VCA and Music

Faculty of Fine Arts & Music

Other name	Victorian College of the Arts, VCA, FFAM
Type	Public
Established	1972
Dean	Barry Conyngham
Director	Jon Cattapan
Academic staff	116
Students	1,300
Location	Southbank, Victoria, Australia 37°49′29″S 144°58′13″E / 37.8248°S 144.9702°E / -37.8248; 144.9702Coordinates: 37°49′29″S 144°58′13″E / 37.8248°S 144.9702°E / -37.8248; 144.9702
Campus	Urban (Southbank Campus) 4 Hectares
Website	vca.unimelb.edu.au

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (formerly known as the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is located near the Melbourne City Centre, on two campuses: one – the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (The Conservatorium) – on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other – the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) – on St Kilda Road, at Southbank.

Courses and training offered at the VCA cover eight academic disciplines: dance, film & television, drama, Indigenous arts, music theatre, production, theatre, visual art, and writing, alongside the Centre for Ideas and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development. Degree programs specialising in music performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, conducting, pedagogy and music therapy are taught at the Conservatorium, which also runs an Early Music Studio, and oversees the publishing house Lyrebird Press. Both campuses offer graduate programs including certificates and diplomas, and research and coursework awards at the masters and doctoral levels.