The Nuts and Bolts of Music is a new approach to music literacy and is especially suitable for adult learners. Available most evenings, depending on demand, participants learn to read and write music confidently, understand what they hear, and apply what they learn. Lessons include music theory and appreciation, ear training, and keyboard laboratory activities without the homework and without exams! Every participant receives a Certificate of Participation. See our brochure for further details.

In late 2003, Murray Conservatorium established an exciting community orchestral program. Bringing together musicians from Albury-Wodonga as well as further afield, the Chamber Orchestra gave its first performance in December of that year. So successful was this initial program, that it has now been expanded to include not only those with quite strong orchestral experience but also those with very little or even no experience.

Orchestras Alive! consists of the Murray Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra, for experienced orchestral musicians, and the ‘All Comers Ensemble’ or ACE, for short. The Chamber Orchestra rehearses for two hours each week under the baton of Willem van der Vis, each period of activity, or project, culminating in a public performance. ‘ACE’ is a one hour weekly ensemble activity open to all players of any orchestral instrument, regardless of standard or experience.

Orchestras Alive! receives funding from the Ruth Whyte Memorial Bequest and NSW Department of Education and Training and the City of Wodonga.

Applicants should have completed year 12 or equivalent. Applications will also be accepted under mature age entry provisions. Please contact the Director for further details.

Murray Conservatorium assists many schools in the Albury-Wodonga region by placing specialist music teachers in those schools. In recent years, these partnerships have been extended to service schools in outlying areas. Schools currently engaged in this program include Brocklesby, Burrumbuttock, Culcairn, Henty, Lowesdale, Mullengandra, Mulwala, Rand, Walbundrie and Walla Walla public schools as well as St Patrick’s in Holbrook, St John's in Jindera, and Billabong High School in Culcairn. This program, subsidised by the NSW Department of Education and Training, provides access to individual instrumental tuition, choral training and class music. Interested principals should contact the Director for further information on this program.