ANU School of Music

Situated in the heart of the nation’s capital, and on the campus of Australia’s foremost research university, the Australian National University School of Music has a proud and rich history. It was the first purpose-built music school facility in Australia and for nearly 50 years the School has also played a leading role in the cultural life of Canberra and our region.

Since 2013 the School has delivered a new model of music education which not only better supports the vocational and professional needs of music students, but which is also grounded in a renewed vision of public service. It engages positively with the fact that globalisation and the rise of the digital age are having a profound impact on musical culture in Australia, while reaffirming the profound human truth that the most immediate and powerful way we experience music remains through the act of performance. At its heart, the School affirms an ideal of musical excellence that is ethically informed, generous of spirit, intellectually rigorous, outward-looking, responsible, accountable, and receptive to new ideas.