Support us

Making your contribution towards the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s many projects and activities is easy. Tax-deductible donations of $2 or more can be made:

• online by completing a secure form and using your credit card; or
• by cheque made out to “University of Sydney – SCM Foundation”

Postal address

The Advancement Portfolio
Level 2, Michael Spence Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9552 2539
Fax: +61 2 9660 6759
development.fund@sydney.edu.au

By endowing or helping to endow a chair, you will ensure the Conservatorium can sit squarely on the international stage as a global centre of excellence in music education and research.

The Conservatorium would like to offer permanent support to a professorial chair in each of the teaching and research units – strings, piano, vocal and operatic studies, percussion, woodwind, brass, jazz studies, piano accompaniment, musicology, historical performance and composition – integrating them through cross-disciplinary links in performance and research.

Cost

The current cost of endowing a professorial chair is $5 million. Each year, 4.5 percent of the principal fund is made available to support the activities of the chair. Annual earnings above 4.5 percent are reinvested to maintain the fund’s value in real terms after inflation.

Leaving a gift in your will to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music is a meaningful way to make an enduring contribution to future generations of musicians, composers, educators, and scholars to pursue musical excellence.

There are a range of ways you can make a legacy gift to the Con. You can:

• leave an unrestricted gift or direct it to a specific purpose at the Con
• indicate a specific amount, a percentage of your estate, or a portion of the balance remaining in your estate. Some of our legacy supporters leave just 1% of their estate.

To find out more about areas you can support at the Con, or to ensure the wording you include in your will can be executed in the way you intend, please get in touch.