BCL: Performing Arts Groups in Melbourne and Victoria Australia

Melbourne Performing Arts, Music and Drama

Acabellas - see their Community Singing Groups
Altona City Theatre an amateur theatre company with several shows a year.
Anglesea Performing Arts Inc. - Hosts the annual Anglesea One Act Play Festival.
Apollo Bay Music Festival
Australian Boys Choir
Australian Boys Choral Institute
Australian Girls Choir
Australian Institute of Eastern Music
Australian Welsh Male Choir
The Austrian Choir (Melbourne)
Bendigo Chamber Choir
Bendigo Symphony Orchestra
Berwick Youth Choir
Box Hill Chorale
Brunswick Women's Choir
Camberwell Chorale is a community of people which meets regularly to share the joy and challenge of learning and performing quality choral music. Members come from all around Melbourne, gathering in the City of Boroondara to celebrate their love of music, and to prepare for the usual five or six concerts a year. The Chorale has been doing this since 1944 and it's still going strong!
The Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts is a community organisation for performance and training in music and theatre for the Canberra community.
Cantorion Cymreig Victoria Welsh Male Voice
Cardinia Performing Arts Company - Performances are held at the Cardinia Cultural Centre.
Catchment Players of Darebin
Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra
Choir of Hard Knocks
Choir of U3A Hawthorn
Choir Victoria comprises The Victorian Boys Choir (formed in 1974), The Victorian Girls Choir (formed in 2003) and The Victorian Youth Chorus (formed in 2008).
Chompmusic formerly known as Central Highlands Original Music Promotions Inc (CHOMP)
Choral Institute Melbourne (CHIME) Inc
City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band
Classical Guitar Society of Victoria is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization incorporated in 2005. CGSV aims to bring together guitarists, teachers, composers and the listening public to provide enriching experiences for all, through a variety of guitar-related activities.
Club Wild works with people with a disability and people with mental illness to make great contemporary music, multimedia and performance.
Community Music Victoria
Concordia Mandolin & Guitar Ensemble a mandolin orchestra based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. There are approximately 20 members who play mandolins, mandolas, guitars, double bass and piano accordion. The orchestra plays classical, contemporary and popular music and it is often joined by professional soloists playing woodwind, strings or vocalists.
Cultural Infusion Limited is a non-profit organisation committed to the promotion of the arts based on principles of inclusiveness, pluralism, and appreciation of the beliefs and traditions of people from a variety of Australian communities. Cultural Infusion Limited will deliver on this aim largely through building on the success of the interactive performance workshops of the nation-wide Cultural Infusion Schools Program, as well as developing new programs.
Dandenong Ranges Music Council Incorporated - includes Dandenong Ranges Orchestra, Dr Swing Show Band, Hilltop Singers, The Happy Wanderers, Singularity, Ranges Young Strings, Acoustic Music Jam, Artists with Disabilities, Youth Music Connection, and Outer Eastern Country Music Club.
Diamond Valley Singers Community Singing Group/Choir. The Diamond Valley Singers (DVS) was established in 1985 with a view to providing a medium for community members in the Diamond Valley and surrounding areas to exercise their talents, and at the same time to raise money for charity. Our principal beneficiaries are World Vision and Open House. We are one of the few companies in Melbourne who do not audition our chorus for musicals or our choir for oratorio. Most members cannot read music so rehearsal CDs are often available to help learn the parts.
Drama Victoria
Eagles Nest Theatre aims to bring quality affordable arts programs to schools, suburban and regional communities as well as those already familiar with our work. The artists who create our work are highly trained, experienced and at the forefront of current trends in creative and theatrical thinking.
East City Sound are women who "enjoy the challenge of a cappella, four-part harmony in the barbershop style and perform in colourful costumes with lively choreography."
The Eltham Orchestras - umbrella organisation for a number of orchestral groups in the north-eastern suburbs Melbourne.
Ensemble Gombert - Chamber choir. Ensemble specialises in a cappella performance of Franco-Flemish music of the High Renaissance.
Essendon Choral Society
Flare Dance Company - A community-based, not-for-profit dance company, it provides a platform for amateur dancers and choreographers to perform various styles of dance from jazz and contemporary to ballet and latin.
Frankston Theatre Group
The Geelong Chorale
Geelong Lyric Theatre Society
Gemco Players Community Theatre - Based in Emerald. Covers the townships in the Dandenong Ranges - Gembrook, Emerald, Monbulk, Macclesfield, Menzies Creek, and Cockatoo Community Theatre.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria
Gisborne Singers Community Choir We aspire as a choir to perform concerts with high quality choral art for our enjoyment and that of the community of the Macedon Ranges and its neighbours, and in so doing to provide opportunities for the development of the choral singing skill of our members (gisbornesingers on the forum)
Gloriana - chamber choir
Golden City Pipe Band - Bendigo
Hawthorn City Pipe Band
Heidelberg Choral Society
Heidelberg Orchestras - includes the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Robertson Youth Orchestra, Junior Strings of Banyule, and the Heidelberg Wind Ensemble.
Hobsons Bay City Band
Impro Melbourne
Launchpad Drama - creates theatrical opportunities for young people in Melbourne.
Lieder Youth Theatre Company - Goulburn.
Magnormos is a theatrical production company based in Melbourne that produces unsung (or rarely sung) musical theatre material
Manningham Concert Band
Maroondah Singers Inc
Maroondah Symphony Orchestra
The Melbournaires Harmony Chorus - All-male a cappella ensemble.
Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society
The Melbourne Chamber Choir (previously known as The Faye Dumont Singers) has provided a continuing programme of the best in choral chamber music in Melbourne and country Victoria over the last twenty years.
The Melbourne Chorus of Sweet Adelines - Women's barbershop singing.
Melbourne Community Gamelan - Indonesian music
Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus
Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra
Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir
Melbourne Staff Band - Part of the Australian Salvation Army
Melbourne String Ensemble
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne University Choral Society
Melbourne Welsh Male Choir
The Melbourne Women's Choir formed in 1994
Monash University Philharmonic Society
Monkani Drama Group - Performers with an intellectual disability
Multicultural Arts Victoria provides opportunities and support structures to artists and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as offering culturally diverse art to the public at large.
Music Network for Mental Health
National Boys Choir of Australia
National Children's Choir of Australia
Newport Fiddle and Folk Club
Peridot Theatre Company Non professional company in Mt. Waverley, Melbourne performing in the Unicorn Theatre.
Phoenix Theatre Company is based in the City of Manningham in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Phoenix Theatre Company was established with the philosophy of integrating young performers, and older more experienced performers, from within the local community. At Phoenix we continue the philosophy that performers and production staff form the back bone of our theatrical community and we constantly encourage people to push their creative limits to their fullest potential, within a safe and structured environment.
Pipe Bands Victoria - includes the Australian Pipe Band Association Victoria Branch and the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association.
PLOS Musical Productions
Portland Choral Group - South-west Victoria
Preston Symphony Orchestra - incorporating Preston Strings and Preston Junior Strings
RAAF Band
Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
Sevdalinka Choir - Bosnian-Herzegovinian multicultural and multiethnic community choir promoting peace, understanding and respect between communities and nationalities.
St Francis' Choir
St Martins Youth Arts Centre - For youth between 5 and 25. St. Martins Lane, South Yarra.
Scandinavian Choir of Melbourne
Scottish Gaelic Choir of Victoria - part of the Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria
Shepparton Theatre Arts Group
Sing Australia - Features information on community choirs around Australia.
Southeastern Philharmonia Choir
Southern Sounds Chorus - Women's four-part a cappella group based in Frankston.
South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
South of the River Community Gospel Choir
The Star Chorale - Members include former students, staff members, family of students or friends of MLC (the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew, Victoria), but all are welcome.
State Orchestra of Victoria
Stonnington Symphony
Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group
Sweet Monas Choir - The group began in 1966 and are based in Ballarat.
Theatre Organ Society of Australia - Victorian Division.
The Tudor Choristers - Specialising in unaccompanied music, The Tudor Choristers has performed for most of Australia's leading concert organisations, including the ABC, Musica Viva, the Victorian Arts Centre and the Victorian Arts Council.
Two Bays Choir - A community choir who sing world music, pop, gospel, swing and original songs, and perform at festivals and events locally and in Melbourne.
Unicorn Productions - An experimental theatre company based in Melbourne combining challenging theatrical experiences with multimedia such as film and projections.
Victorian Amateur Chamber Music Society
Victorian Folk Music Club Inc - practicing Australian traditional dance, music, poetry and song
Victorian State Singers
Victorian Trade Union Choir A community choir for union members who want to celebrate their commitment to trade unionism and broader social justice principles through song. We sing classic and contemporary Australian and international songs of struggle - for improved working conditions, a living wage and greater social equality.
Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra
The Vocal Consort - Male ensemble.
Vocal Vibes - Women's four-part a capella harmony chorus.
Warrandyte Theatre Company - A group of fun, creative actors entertaining the community with the annual Follies, One Act Plays and Full plays.
Weekend Warriors - There is nothing like playing in a band... Weekend Warriors focuses on just two things, playing great music and having fun. There's no better way to get back to playing music than joining Weekend Warriors. As a Weekend Warrior you'll be playing with other musicians of a similar level and playing the music you love, The Stones, Daddy Cool, Eagles - in fact all the great music of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Werribee Chamber Orchestra
Whitehorse Musical Theatre - Non-professional musical theatre company in Melbourne's eastern suburbs providing high quality productions for lovers of musical theatre everywhere. Recent productions include "Les Miserables", "42nd Street" and "The Sound of Music". Details of upcoming productions, equipment and costume hire, and how to become a member can be found on the website.
Whitehorse Orchestra - Box Hill
Wild at Heart Community Arts works with people with a disability and with mental illness to make music, multimedia and performance.
Williamstown Musical Theatre Company Inc WMTC Inc - formerly known as Williamstown Light Opera Company the oldest amateur musical theatre company in Melbourne is back and bigger than ever.
Williamstown RSL Pipe Band
Young Voices of Melbourne
Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra - Melbourne's longest-running amateur symphony orchestra.

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