"ANAM is an extraordinary institution: intense, demanding, challenging and immensely rewarding to be involved with. The musicians are totally engaged and committed."
– Simone Young AM, Conductor
The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is an international, dynamic and outward-facing cultural institution, training and performance company, with a demonstrated commitment to engaging with its communities. Founded in 1996, ANAM is an internationally renowned as the only purely performance classical music training academy in Australia, and one of the few in the world.
ANAM provides an intense studio-based program of individually tailored lessons, classes, coaching, seminars and rehearsals. The focus is on outstanding pedagogy, which is reflected in one of the country’s most active and innovative performance programs, with over 200 public performances annually. ANAM complements its studio and performance programs with additional musician enhancement activities, including Health and Wellbeing, Professional Development and Community Engagement.
ANAM has industry partnerships with over 20 organisations, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia, Musica Viva Australia, a range of national music and arts festivals, and internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra (Munich), Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Berlin) and London’s Royal College of Music.
Alongside NIDA, the Australian Ballet School, NAISDA Dance College and other leading institutions, ANAM is a member of the Australian Government-funded Arts8 group of performing arts training organisations. The Arts8 are committed to providing the high level and intense studio-based training necessary to ensuring that the national performing arts sector has a pipeline of creative talent that will enable it to continue telling Australian stories for generations.
ANAM alumni are found in many of the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles, and ANAM’s intensive schedule brings together a global network of artists and performers who provide invaluable mentorship and guidance for emerging young musicians through public performances, in-residence masterclasses and other programs.
Our Goals
1. To equip our musicians with skills to be the music leaders of the future
2. To elevate ANAM's place in the national cultural narrative
3. To support ANAM's people and be an organistaion and workplace of choice
4. To provide quality infrastructure and resources
5. To achieve long-term financial sustainability
Our Vision & Mission
ANAM's vision is to be Australia's foremost performance training academy for elite classical musicians.
Our mission is to produce cultural leaders whose strong and distinctive musical voice has global relevance.
Our Values
We care. We are empathetic in the way we work, and help and support each other.
We are future focused. We work courageously and are open to new ideas, adapting to and
meeting challenges head on.
We grow. We are curious, and focused on education and learning.
We take pride. We communicate positively, celebrate success and provide constructive feedback.
We value community. We respect and value difference and diversity, and actively seek out different
views through partnerships and collaborations.
We sustain the artform. We support new work, and we take risks, inviting new perspectives into
our work.
Our Commitment
OUR COMMITMENT TO THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
ANAM is committed to being a safe and supportive place for all children and young people who visit, or are involved in our programs. This commitment is shared throughout our organisation, and applies to our Board, staff, faculty, contractors and volunteers. We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children.
Our History
Artistic Directors
Paavali Jumppanen (2021 – )
Nick Deutsch (2016 – 2020)
Paul Dean (2010 – 2015)
Brett Dean (2006 – 2010)
John Harding (2004)
Frank Wibaut (1999 – 2003)
Ronald Farren-Price (Acting Director, 1998)
Trevor Green (1996 – 1998)
To view our history of Season Brochures CLICK HERE.
To find out more about our Alumni CLICK HERE.
ARTS8
The Australian Government funds the eight national elite training organisations in the performing arts, which support Australia's thriving creative economy. The organisations' training programs promote artistic and cultural excellence. Together with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, these organisations comprise ARTS8: the Australian Roundtable for Arts Training Excellence.
Endorsements
“I was vastly impressed by the structure, vision and innovation that is taking place at ANAM... I wish that as a student, I could have experienced the opportunities for growth and learning that the ANAM musicians have at their fingertips.”
— NOAH BENDIX-BAGLEY, FIRST CONCERTMASTER, BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
"I truly love coming to Oz – my favourite destination. I’m always made welcome here by the orchestras, and the work that is being done at ANAM to train the next generation of musicians to become enquiring, positive and brilliant musicians, is an inspiration.”
— DOUGLAS BOYD, CONDUCTOR
“One of the most enjoyable and fulfilling weeks of music-making I can remember... A gloriously virtuosic Beethoven 4 followed by a moving and amazingly mature Bruckner 4. Their dedication during the rehearsals and utter commitment and passion in the concert was absolutely inspiring. I am full of admiration.”
— NICHOLAS CARTER, PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR, ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (2016-2019) and CHIEF CONDUCTOR, STADTTHEATER KLAGENFURT
“There is a palpable air of excitement as soon as you step through the doors of ANAM: the place fizzes with creative intensity, and is a stellar example of how to create a challenging, inspirational program of serious yet free-spirited advanced study.”
— ANTHONY MARWOOD, VIOLINIST and CONDUCTOR
“I can’t think of any other institution where the obsession is just music like this… life-changing: it’s an extraordinary institution.”
— RICHARD TOGNETTI, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR and LEAD VIOLIN, AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
"ANAM is an extraordinary institution: intense, demanding, challenging and immensely rewarding to be involved with. The musicians are totally engaged and committed."
— SIMONE YOUNG AM, CONDUCTOR
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view
Open larger view