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The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music in Canberra has appointed new staff, after several months of controversy about cutbacks and job losses.
Violinist David Irving, music technology expert Samantha Bennett, and leading tenor Paul McMahon will join the school in 2013.
Head of the school Professor Peter Tregear says the new staff line-up comes after an international search and more than 130 applications.
He says the appointments will allow the school to offer new programs.
"The school's revolution this year has also always been about presenting the opportunities to develop new areas of expertise, which a School of Music which is going to be relevant to students and the wider community needs to be doing," he said.
"That's digital musical culture, popular music, it's historical music and performance practice."
Professor Tregear says the appointments present new opportunities, after a turbulent time for the school.
"I understand I'm saying that in what has been a very difficult year for the school," he said.
"But this has always been about new opportunities as well as about the reality of having to move on from the ultimately unsustainable economic situation at the school."
Two more positions are yet to be filled.
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