Faculty:

Fine Arts and Music
School:

Melbourne Conservatorium for Music
Salary:

Level B - $122,212 - $145,121 p.a. plus 17% super

Level C - $149,701 - $172,613 p.a. plus 17% super

Shape future professional violists / Contribute to vibrant musical culture / Advance practice-led research

Apply now to join a prestigious institution and elevate viola education and performance

Investing in you - benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.

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Your next career opportunity
As a Lecturer in Viola at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of viola performance and education. You'll inspire and train aspiring professional musicians, contribute to cutting-edge practice-led research, and play a key role in the Conservatorium's dynamic strings program. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact on musical culture while advancing your own artistic practice and academic career.

Your responsibilities will include:

Deliver Exceptional Viola Education: Provide individual lessons, performance classes, and ensemble coaching at all levels, while coordinating strings subjects and recruiting high-quality students.

Advance Practice-Led Research: Contribute to performance-based research through concerts, recordings, and publications, while supervising graduate researchers in strings performance.

Engage with the Musical Community: Participate in Conservatorium events, foster industry partnerships, and contribute to professional organisations in strings performance.

Provide Leadership and Service: Contribute to program planning, curriculum development, and committee work within the Conservatorium and wider University community.

You may be a great fit if:

You are an accomplished violist and educator with a distinguished performance profile, demonstrating excellence in teaching and a commitment to advancing viola performance and pedagogy through innovative approaches to repertoire, research, and student development.

You may also:

Possess a postgraduate qualification in viola performance (doctorate preferred) or equivalent professional experience.
Have a nationally or internationally recognised track record of significant performances and recordings across diverse repertoires.

Demonstrate expertise in viola repertoires from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a commitment to representing diversity in programming.

Show evidence of excellence in teaching and recruiting undergraduate and postgraduate viola students.

Exhibit the ability to develop a distinctive program of performance-based research and deliver high-quality research outputs.

Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a collaborative approach to working within an academic environment.

Your New Team – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM), Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

With an energetic and innovative culture, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music is the proud home of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Working with us, you will enjoy the creative cultural outputs of our brilliant students and staff, as well as the beautiful purpose-built Southbank campus on which we are situated.

The Faculty is a place for creative people to come together to expand their minds and experiences, through which they become part of a world-wide community that motivates cultural growth. In short, we believe in the power of the artistic mind to effect change and we welcome you to share in that adventure.

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