Industry partnerships
We are proud of our community of project partners and we always welcome new opportunities to work with arts and educational organisations. These collaborations provide many invaluable openings for shared knowledge, innovative research developments and networking.
We collaborate with research funding organisations including the Australian Research Council and the Australia Council for the Arts, and our composers, performers and scholars also work on a number of arts projects.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music also has a strong internship program that offers our students placements with many arts partners throughout NSW where they gain experience and skills in a variety of areas, including:
- marketing
- audience development
- broadcasting
- magazine publishing
- playing in the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.
Past partnerships
Songs of Home tells the little-known story of music played and enjoyed in NSW during the first 70 years of the colony.
This vibrant musical world is explored through recordings of early music, rare instruments, printed scores, and remarkable stories of people creating home through song. Step into grand houses, humble cottages, vast landscapes, pubs and churches, and discover the soundtrack of early Sydney.
Students of the Conservatorium’s Historical Performance Division have been engaged to record the music used in the Exhibition as part of their curriculum in 2019.
2019 marked the third year partnering with the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music for an inclusion project to work on David Reeve’s Seven Little Australians in Wollongong’s Spiegeltent.
"These performances are unique in that it is a collaboration of professionals and young emerging artists, creating rare mentoring opportunities for the younger artists," says Director and Senior Lecturer in Stagecraft and Voice at the Conservatorium Dr Narelle Yeo.
The City Recital Hall is our inaugural partner for the University’s new interdisciplinary projects.
"The team at City Recital Hall really enjoyed developing ‘The Future of Live Performance’ industry project with the University of Sydney," says CEO Elaine Chia. "It’s a great initiative to bring together innovative thinkers across disciplines, and we are excited to see the outcome of their collaboration."
Four composition students engaged with and responded to exhibitions on frogs and mammoths.
"We were absolutely delighted to work with the Conservatorium and present the students’ original compositions within this after-hours series," Creative Producer Sue Saxon says. "Each student was very professional and dedicated to their compositions and performances, and we were very excited at the results and the audience response each evening."
- NSW Regional Conservatoriums
We provide interns, buddies and mentors for our regional network and work with them on research projects - ABC Classics
Internship partner - ABC Classic FM
Internship partner and project partner for the Composing Women program - Angove
Wine sponsor for our many concerts and events - APRA AMCOS
Internship partner and project partner for the Composing Women program - Arts Law Centre of Australia
Project partner for the Composing Women program - Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Internship partner - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Internship partner - Australian Museum
Composition project partner - Australian Music Centre
Project partner for the Composing Women program - Australian Youth Orchestra
Many of our students participate in this program - City Recital Hall
Internship and interdisciplinary project partner - Ensemble Offspring
Internship partner - Gondwana Choirs
Internship partner - Limelight Magazine
Internship partner - Moorambilla Voices
Internship partner - Musica Viva Australia
Masterclass program and internship partner; project partner for the Composing Women program - NIDA
Internship partner and project partner for the Composing Women program - NSW Education Standards Authority
Accreditation partner for our music education degrees - Opera Australia
Internship partner - Pacific Opera
Internship partner - PARADISEC
Research partner - State Library of NSW
Research partner - Sydney Chamber Opera
Internship partner and project partner for the Composing Women program - Sydney International Piano Competition
Internship partner and live within our building - Sydney Living Museums
Research partner - Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Masterclass program and internship partner, and project partner for the Composing Women program - Vivid Sydney
Composition project partner - Willoughby Symphony Orchestra
Internship partner