Interest Groups - Performing Arts

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Melbourne Performing Arts, Music and Drama

• Acabellas - see their Community Singing Groups
• Altona City Theatre an amateur theatre company with several shows a year.
• 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
• Blue Chair Theatre
• 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!
• Cantorion Cymreig Victoria Welsh Male Voice
• Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra
• Choir of Hard Knocks
• Choir of U3A Hawthorn
• Chompmusic formerly known as Central Highlands Original Music Promotions Inc (CHOMP)
• City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band
• 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.
• 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 
• 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.
• 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 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 Choral Society
• Monash University Philharmonic Society
• Monkani Drama Group - Performers with an intellectual disability
• Mornington Peninsula Theatre Company
• 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.
• MW's Chamber Orchestra - Eastern suburbs
• 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 Assocation.
• PLOS Musical Productions 
• Portland Choral Group - South-west Victoria
• Preston Symphony Orchestra - incorporating Preston Strings and Preston Junior Strings
• RAAF Central Band
• Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
• St Francis' Choir
• Scandinavian Choir of Melbourne
• Scottish Gaelic Choir of Victoria - part of the Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria
• Shepparton Theatre Arts Group
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• You're The Voice  From gospel to grunge, there's something for everyone, and amidst the laughter and song you will learn valuable tips and techniques from professional singers.
• Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra - Melbourne's longest-running amateur symphony orchestra.

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