“It’s exciting times for the arts and cultural life in Orange”

People come to Orange for our food and wine culture, which is certainly our biggest tourism offer.

The Orange Regional Conservatorium have now announced their new five-year plan that will undoubtedly help grow our community’s tourism attraction through the arts while establishing Australia’s leading regional conservatorium in the process.
For 30 years, the Orange Regional Conservatorium has been “a positive impact within our community” and integral to the cultural development through music education that the well-respected conservatorium that we know and love is known for today.
From their extensive programs, catering 1400 students, both junior, middle and senior ages, across individual tuition, ensembles, orchestras and contributing to community groups during their three decades.
Now, with the new state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility on the way, Orange will be established as an national identity for leading regional-based community music education, performance and cultural entertainment engagement.
“When the new building is finished, it will be the last piece of the puzzle within that precinct where you have the library, art gallery, theatre, museum, the planetarium and our conservatorium.

 “I would love to see the arts alongside Orange’s food and wine culture and joining them together. Food, wine and the arts. This is such a huge tourism potential for the community to be tapping into for the near future,” says Director of the Orange Regional Conservatorium, Donna Riles.
With more than 50 concerts being facilitated a year to over 12,000 audience members, the Conservation is expected to double those results across the next half-a-decade.
“With the gifting of this beautiful new building by Orange City Council, we thank them so much for their vision, gracious support and seeing the value of the conservatorium for 30 years but also valuing the arts precinct we have here in Orange,” Donna said.
The five-year plan aims to ensure with the new expansions that inclusion, such as supporting music in schools and early childhood settings to cultural enrichment are met. This expends onto innovation, quality & excellence, accountability & transparency, however, most importantly is working with the community that’s at the heart of the plan.
“We want to work with all sorts of facets within the arts sector, to make sure the building is utilised to its full potential, that people are interacting, engaging and enjoying making art, creating music. It’s exciting times for the arts and cultural life in Orange,” Donna stated.