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Australian International Conservatorium Of Music is committed to becoming a music and arts education leader in Australia and beyond, continually striving towards distinction in performance, creativity, and scholarship. Students are educated to the highest standards based on the best possible professional practice. Through our graduates, faculty, and community alike, AICM seeks to impact the music and performing arts arena positively. The Australian International Conservatorium of Music (AICM) is a not-for-profit, independent conservatorium offering world-class education. Through our degree programs, master classes, and events, the AICM provides a performance-focused, intellectually challenging, and academically rigorous environment to encourage our students' development. View full university

We have been challenging traditions for more than 160 years. We make lives better by producing leaders of society and equipping our people with leadership qualities to serve our communities at every level. Since our inception, we have believed in education for all and leadership that makes lives better. The same values continue to inform our policy of inclusion and underpin our long-term strategy for growth. No matter what course you are studying, what faculty you work for, or how you are involved with the University, our strategy is relevant. The University's strategic plan is more than a high-level document for our governing bodies and senior management. It is the roadmap to achieving our shared vision. Our vision is unashamedly aspirational, aiming to position the University of Sydney as the best University in Australia and a leading institution globally. Our campuses play host to a range of entertainment and events throughout the year. From weekly pub trivia to live music festivals, you will always find a good excuse to log out and put down the textbooks. Pursuing research excellence requires the latest innovative technology across all disciplines. This is why we're investing in world-class and openly-accessible core research facilities. The University of Sydney's core research facilities provide access to high-end research infrastructure and offer a range of related services to assist researchers with specialist applications. These centralized, shared facilities span faculties and serve as focal points of research activity. The core research facilities bring together a critical mass of researchers from diverse disciplines and provide the means to manage better and sustain high-end research infrastructure to conduct quality research. Today we offer hundreds of scholarships to support and encourage talented students and a range of grants and bursaries to those who need a financial helping hand. We get behind a range of activities to ensure everyone is accepted and has equal education and employment opportunities at our University. View full university

Our position in the heart of a leading Conservatoire and connection to a University with a robust social agenda makes us highly distinctive both in Australia and internationally. This unique positioning allows us to combine cutting edge creativity and artistry with innovative approaches to social engagement, social justice, and social change. Since our beginnings in 2003, we have remained committed to exploring the complex and multifaceted role music plays in contemporary society and continued to champion music research that is imaginative in content and design, interdisciplinary in nature, and dedicated to addressing the pressing needs of our time. A firm belief underpins our research that music has a significant role to play in addressing some of the most challenging issues facing our generation, whether it be climate change, health equity, social justice, resistance from crime, poverty alleviation, community wellbeing, or cultural sustainability, to mention a few. Our researchers do this by working in collaborative and interdisciplinary teams alongside communities and industry and by harnessing new technologies and inviting the public to play a role in our events, installations, and performances. Over the past 15 years, QCRC members have produced a significant body of work that has made a significant contribution to music research. This has included books, chapters, journal articles, reports, and industry pieces aimed at a broader readership through high-profile publishers. Our creative work has been featured in leading festivals, recordings, the concert stage, and digital media. We have remained committed to being critical players in our national and international communities of music practice, and in 2018 QCRC researchers will continue to travel the world presenting keynotes at leading disciplinary conferences, performing at celebrated national and international festivals and events, and disseminating our creative and text-based work online and through extensive networks. The Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre undertakes cutting-edge research that tackles the complex and multifaceted role music plays in contemporary society. Our research is continuing to drive global impact through our diverse programs, community engagement initiatives, and remarkable partnerships. We collaborate with national and international partners and stakeholders to cultivate projects that are imaginative in content and design, interdisciplinary in nature, and dedicated to addressing our time's pressing needs. At QCRC, we are practicing musicians. We seek to understand, enhance, and share the creative processes within our music-making and beyond. We aim to explore performance practices across various cultural and historical contexts, compositional approaches and their interpretation, technological innovations including audio recording, multimedia performance, and instrument building. At QCRC, we are active community members. We seek to work hand-in-hand with communities to explore music's role in promoting cultural and environmental sustainability, health equity, and social justice. Within this area, we provide an activist space for researchers and community members to work on projects that harness music's potential for addressing the most pressing issues of our time. We seek to explore holistic ways of supporting emerging musicians and those seeking to sustain themselves as musicians over time. We aim to explore lifelong learning processes, professional development practices, and pedagogical and curriculum approaches to fostering livelihoods, wellbeing, and artistic citizenship within a portfolio career reality. View full university