Spiros Falieros

Spiros Falieros has a varied background across the education, media, and arts sectors having worked at the Victorian Department of Education and Training coordinating Metropolitan Music & Arts Programs, a practising musician, a teacher and coordinator of Secondary School Music Departments, and as a Greek-language radio announcer in Melbourne.

Spiro has managed the allocation of government funding for Secondary Schools’ Instrumental Music Programs, administered grants to schools for specific projects, and has also organised and facilitated Professional Development conferences for teachers and practitioners in music and the arts.

He has produced large scale concerts and theatrical productions involving teachers and students from many schools. A special highlight was Spotlight on Youth Arts 2002, a production involving more than 700 government school students from the Northern Metropolitan Region of the Department of Education which was held in the Melbourne Concert Hall. It featured all aspects of the Performing Arts: Music, Dance, and Drama, as well as Media Studies through short films.

Spiro believes that the arts can be a powerful way to promote cultural awareness, pluralism and inclusiveness. Much of his work involves supporting and promoting the delivery of culturally diverse performance-workshops into schools and local communities.