Although based in Sydney the Sydney Symphony’s education reach goes far beyond the borders of NSW!

Nationwide programs

We have a number of national annual projects for emerging Australian performers and composers. The Sinfonia and Fellowship programs are auditioned nationally each year and approximately 60 young musicians are selected to present concerts in our mentoring orchestra.

The Sinfonietta Composition project identifies exceptional emerging composers from around the country and brought to Sydney for intensive work with our musicians and Richard Gill. In recent years we have started offering Professional Learning workshops for teachers in the capital cities with pedagogy and ideas to enrich classrooms around the country.

We trialled our first online Professional Learning workshop this year with great success and we intend to continue this initiative to reach more parts of Australia. An online Sydney Symphony Education Resource Library is currently in development. This will allow anyone to become a member and access our resource material on our website. There are some free resources already available for download.

International Outreach

In 2011 we held our first international programs in South Korea, working with instrumental students of school and tertiary ages in a series of rehearsals with Chief Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, our orchestral musicians and Russian cellist Misha Maisky.

In 2012 the Sydney Symphony will be working on education outreach projects with musicians in Guangzhou, China.