The Behind the Music series offers rare insights into the processes involved in the preparation of creative works. Find out from the music makers what is happening behind the scenes – how does a performer interpret a work, how do they make decisions, how do they balance spontaneity with preparation? Over four sessions, leading musicians will share insights into their individual approaches to making music.

A concert showcasing the students of the Conservatorium chamber music program.

A concert showcasing a selection of the top piano students at Queensland Conservatorium.

A concert showcasing the students of the Conservatorium chamber music program.

Continuing its support of new music, the Conservatorium Wind Orchestra  presents an unusual concert – one of  ‘second’ performances.  Recent new works from around the world that have been commissioned and received only a premiere  or two will come to life again in this concert.

The Joyce Campbell Lloyd Scholarship was made possible by the generous donation of funds by Joyce Lloyd who had a keen interest in the arts and in young people. The scholarship provides funds to assist students from Queensland Conservatorium showing outstanding promise to further their music performance studies overseas.

First year creative music technology students showcase live performance, computer programming, and digital signal processing with open-source visual language Pure data (Pd).

Come and hear the future stars of Queensland Conservatorium’s wind department in an exciting program of solo and chamber works.

Ba Da Boom presents a carefully curated selection of chamber percussion works with strong Australian and Asian influences. Composers include Erik Griswold, Lou Harrison, Yasuhide Ito, Peter Sculthorpe and Nozomi Omote. Featuring a new hand drumming performance piece directed and composed by guest Conservatorium alumni Tsoof Baras.

The Conservatorium Big Band, under the direction of John Hoffman, will present an exciting concert of classic big band repertoire, composed and arranged by some of the greatest exponents of the genre.

Mary Oliver is one of the worlds leading violin improvisers performing across Europe and the USA. This is the first time Mary has teamed up with ensemble in residence Clocked Out. Expect genre-busting music teetering between jazz, early music, improvisation and noise music.

The concert opens with a significant piece by the Australian composer, and a Conservatorium alumnus, Melody Eötvös. Ruler of the Hive was a commission by the TSO and was first performed in 2018 in Hobart with Pamela Rabe as narrator.

Maestro Johannes Fritzsch will then lead the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra and Conservatorium Singers in one of the most widely-celebrated works of the orchestral canon, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Known as the Choral Symphony, this large-scale combined orchestral and choral masterpiece in the well-known Ode to Joy. A triumphant expression of humankind, not to be missed.

Awarded to an emerging classical instrumental or vocal artist from the Queensland Conservatorium. The prize is announced at the Club event on Tuesday 22 October.

Second year creative music technology students explore the complex relationship between humans and their technologies in a variety of multimedia contexts.

The Conservatorium’s premier jazz vocal ensembles Raised Voices and In-Voices present a double bill of unique compositions and arrangements for the genre.

The Conservatorium Brass Band returns in 2019 under the baton of Australia’s most awarded brass band director Howard Taylor.

This celebratory concert sees students of the chamber music program perform alongside faculty and guest artists Dimity Hall and Julian Smiles of the Goldner String Quartet.

The repertoire will include:

Join the talented students of the Queensland Conservatorium string department for a lunchtime concert.

This exciting celebration of the guitar will feature the Riverside Guitar Ensemble, alongside smaller guitar ensembles and the Young Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble.

2nd year Acting students will be performing in a brand new work by the Brisbane writer and playwright, Claire Christian.

Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium especially for the inaugural Bachelor of Acting cohort, this new Australian theatre production gives the students an opportunity to investigate the creation of an original piece of writing with a professional writer/director, on the development of a new play.

Claire won the 2016 Text Prize for her book Beautiful Mess, which has been translated into Dutch and German and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gold Inky Award. Claire’s last production was Lysa and the Freeborn Dames for La Boite Theatre, where she is their Youth Participation Producer.

Queensland Conservatorium’s premier string orchestra Divertimenti, under the direction of Graeme Jennings, presents a concert of diverse repertoire.

Third year creative music technology  students present their final performances of original work, come support our graduands!

2nd year Acting students will be performing in a brand new work by the Brisbane writer and playwright, Claire Christian.

Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium especially for the inaugural Bachelor of Acting cohort, this new Australian theatre production gives the students an opportunity to investigate the creation of an original piece of writing with a professional writer/director, on the development of a new play.

Claire won the 2016 Text Prize for her book Beautiful Mess, which has been translated into Dutch and German and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gold Inky Award. Claire’s last production was Lysa and the Freeborn Dames for La Boite Theatre, where she is their Youth Participation Producer.

2nd year Acting students will be performing in a brand new work by the Brisbane writer and playwright, Claire Christian.

Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium especially for the inaugural Bachelor of Acting cohort, this new Australian theatre production gives the students an opportunity to investigate the creation of an original piece of writing with a professional writer/director, on the development of a new play.

Claire won the 2016 Text Prize for her book Beautiful Mess, which has been translated into Dutch and German and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gold Inky Award. Claire’s last production was Lysa and the Freeborn Dames for La Boite Theatre, where she is their Youth Participation Producer.

2nd year Acting students will be performing in a brand new work by the Brisbane writer and playwright, Claire Christian.

Commissioned by Queensland Conservatorium especially for the inaugural Bachelor of Acting cohort, this new Australian theatre production gives the students an opportunity to investigate the creation of an original piece of writing with a professional writer/director, on the development of a new play.

Claire won the 2016 Text Prize for her book Beautiful Mess, which has been translated into Dutch and German and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gold Inky Award. Claire’s last production was Lysa and the Freeborn Dames for La Boite Theatre, where she is their Youth Participation Producer.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favourite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Ensemble Q is the culmination of decades of developing and refining chamber music practice in Australia and brings together a collective of Australia’s leading chamber exponents as creators, presenters and mentors. Directed by Paul Dean and Trish O’Brien, Ensemble Q is at the very heart of the future of music-making in Australia.

Performing Arts department staff and students celebrate Christmas through music and drama in the stunning surrounds of St John’s Cathedral.

Performing Arts department staff and students celebrate Christmas through music and drama in the stunning surrounds of St John’s Cathedral.

Registrations for the 2020 Summer School will be available in early 2019. 

Monday 20 – Friday 24 January 2020
Friday 24 January 6.00 pm – Public showing of the work produced over the week.

Ages 13 and above

If you have a passion for acting, musical theatre or both, why not come and join us for an amazing week of singing, dancing, acting and performance?

During the 5-day course, students will work with some of the country’s top acting and musical theatre specialists in both class and rehearsal for the end-of-week public showing. Acting workshops will include improvisation, scene work (Contemporary and Shakespeare) and Clowning.

Course Fees: $560