Queensland Conservatorium turns 60

Standing apart as one of Australia’s finest music schools with a glittering roll call of alumni, the Queensland Conservatorium is turning sixty.
Remarkable alumni
Internationally recognised musicians including Dami Im, Jayson Gillham, Katie Noonan, Piers Lane, Megan Washington, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lisa Gasteen and Brett Dean have passed through its doors.
With players in leading positions in every Australian state orchestra, and a host of Grammy and ARIA award winners among its alumni, the Queensland Conservatorium is celebrating a remarkable six decades of peerless music education.
Dream destination
The Conservatorium opened its doors on 18 February 1957 at the South Brisbane Town Hall with just 13 full-time students.
It was based at Gardens Point through the 1970s and 80s, before moving to a new home in the heart of South Bank’s cultural precinct in 1996.
Queensland Conservatorium Director Professor Scott Harrison is himself a graduate of the ‘Con’. He said the Queensland Conservatorium had carved out a place as one of the state’s major

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