Worldwide

• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library - orchestral scores
• Apple iTunes - radio stations and MP3s of classical music including Mozart and Beethoven
  
• Kanada's Music Directory - huge!
• Internet Cello Society
• International Clarinet Association
• Classical Music in Russia: Audio Archive
• Naxos CDs
• longer recording of Brahms playing the piano recorded by Edison (4.8MB WAV file)
• Cambridge University Press - music reference books
• Imaja - ear training software - Mac
• Hemisphere Independent Music Distribution, Netherlands - alternative music - country, jazz, folk... tons of styles... order CDs, LPs...
• Netradio - needs Real Audio/Video Player
• Yahoo! Music
• Mozart Project - excellent - history, works
• Turning the Pages - British Library - Mozart manuscripts
• The J.S. Bach Home Page - words, comment - very good
• Classical MIDI archives - J.S. Bach Chorales
• Universal Music Group - recordings
• Edita G Gruberova - famous opera soprano - plus discography and links
• OperaWeb
• Instrument Jokes!!
• HoofJaw MIDI File Center

Australasia

• Sheet Music, Copyright
  • APRA / AMCOS - Australian regulators of performance and copying of music
• Online CD, Sheet Music and Instrument Shops, libraries, recording studios
  • Fountainhead Music - recording studios, Eastern Sydney
  • The Wolanski Foundation (TWF) - ex Opera House Music Library - it closed in 1996
  • Da Capo Music - 2nd hand music - Glebe, Sydney
  • Symphony Australia (ABC music library) - part of ABC Web site - Leisa Radford, librarian (radfordl@symphony.net.au)
  • Symphony Australia Network (ABC) - all the ABC capital city orchestras e.g. SSO, MSO, ASO...
  • Australian Music Centre, Sydney - very very good!! Includes composers' bios and good music links - only music written in Australia
  • Chaos Music - CDs and cassettes
  • Zephyr Music, Sydney - sheet music
  • EMCW - Windows music cataloguing software
  • Saraband Music - early instruments and sheet music, Sydney
  • Animato - string instruments and sheet music, Brisbane
• Music Teachers, Education
  • Music. Count Us In - Australian Government program for schools
  • Music for Life - Australian music camps
  • The Cyberbass Project - innovative learning for choral singers
    
  • Melvyn Shreeve, Macarthur Sounds, violin teacher, Canowindra/Campbelltown, NSW, 0412-702-842
  • Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK (RNCM)
  • Q Music Big Sound - Brisbane 9/08 - Qld Music Industry Conference
  • Australian College of Entertainment Ltd - Castle Hill NSW
  • School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, UTS - Australian Centre for Event Management - 'The Art of Celebration' mini-conference, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta 10/3/03
  • UQ School of Music honours Max Olding and Pamela Page, Australian musical composer and performing legends - 2011
  • Orange Regional Conservatorium (ORC)
    • 250km west of Sydney
    • has symphony orchestra
    • $660,000 Australian Govt building grant 2/05
    • Symptomatics choir in Orange Hospital and Bloomfield Mental Hospital 10/07
  • Anthony Winter Vocal Studio, Sydney
  • Aussie School House - schools on the Web
  • McDonald College - performing arts school, Strathfield, NSW - K-12 - ballet, drama, music...
  • Australian International Conservatorium of Music - 31-33 Allen St, Harris Park (near Parramatta), NSW - allied with St Petersburg Conservatoire, Russia
  • NIDA (UNSW) - National Institute of Dramatic Art - Mel Gibson went here!!
  • Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne)
  • Faculty of Music (University of Melbourne)
  • Blue Mountains String Workshops
    • PO Box 74, Hazelbrook NSW 2779
    • John Sandes (admin)
    • tel 61-2-47586594, 61-2-47395093
    • Ronald Thomas director (from Sydney String Quartet)
    • ages - from 12 years and up
    • level - beginners to advanced
    • April and August each year
  • Music Teachers Australia - directory of accredited music and speech teachers
  • NSW Public Schools - primary, high schools and technical colleges in New South Wales
  • Eastern Suburbs Community College, Sydney - singing and music lessons
  • Australian Institute of Music, Sydney - High School
  • Wesley Institute, Sydney
  • UNSW School of English, Media and Performing Arts
  • ANU School of Music - The Australian National University Institute of the Arts - music resources
  • Chevallier College, Bowral, NSW - Greg Ellsmore, Director of Music, life member and past conductor of Waverley Randwick Philharmonic
  • Sydney Conservatorium of Music
    • Library hours
    • concerts contact: David Ward, Development Manager, dward@Greenway.usyd.edu.au
  • Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
  • Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
• Events, Competitions, Festivals
  
  • Mrs Carey's Concert - film about Bruch violin concerto by MLC Girls School in Sydney Opera House as on ABC TV 18/9/11 - highly recommended performance
    
  • Sydney Sacred Music Festival, 9-18 Sep 2011
    
  • Sydney Music Web
  • Winter Magic Festival, Blue Mountains, NSW
  • ABC Classic FM Choir of the Year Competition - Sing Out
  • UK Choir Tours - Melody Music Company
  • LetsPartyTonight.com.au - West Australian events
  • St George BIFF - Brisbane International Film Festival - 11/10
  • Valley Fiesta - Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 10/10
  • Brisbane Festival - Brisbane Qld 9/10
  • OurBrisbane.com - events
  • Queensland Music Festival - Brisbane - 2009
  • Musica Mundi - choirs
  • Auburn Community Development Network - Cinewest Multimedia Children's International Film Festival - West Sydney - non-English speaking migrants e.g. arabic, hindi, chinese, vietnamese, korean...
  • Sydney Olympic Park
  • Olympic Movement
  • ACT Government, Canberra - Big Gigs, Cultural Map - the cultural map requires Flash 4 installed (done automatically in IE) - slow downloads on a 33.6kps modem
  • Sydneyscene - cinema, theatre, writing, art, Artswest, bookstore, events
  • Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival, Richmond, NSW - just before Easter each year - folk, jazz, classical
  • Sydney Festival - Jan
  • Ticketek - box office for concerts, shows, sport, theatre in Australia
  • Ticketmaster - tickets for events Australia wide
  • Qtix - QPAC (Queensland Performing Arts Centre), Brisbane events
  • Melbourne Fringe Festival - Sep/Oct
  • WOMADELAIDE - World of Music, Arts and Dance - Adelaide festival
  • Perth Professional Entertainment Services - directory of Australian artists, including Sydney from Aug 2012
  • Adelaide Festival - Feb/Mar
  • Adelaide Fringe - Feb/Mar
  • Port Fairy Folk Festival, Vic. - March each year
  • IMMEDIA! - huge directory of musicians, gigs, media
  • In Music and the Media - news, views, charts
  • Australasian Music Industry Directory
  • Citysearch Sydney - music gig guide!
• Societies, Groups, Bands, Musicians and Singers Home Pages, orchestras
  • solo
    • Elena Kuschnerova, classical pianist
  • jazz
    • Festival International de Jazz de Montreal - Canada - French/English - June-July annually
    • Zooo Big Band - Rouse Hill, Western Sydney - won awards at Montreux International Jazz Festival, Switzerland - conductor Rory Thomas - very talented group of young people! - saw them in Jan and Feb 2002
    • John Morrison Swing City - brother of James Morrison
  • rock
    • AUSMUSIC SA - Adelaide
    • AUSMUSIC - National
    • FReeZA - Victorian band and gig guide
    • The Black Material, Sydney - one of the first Australian rock bands releasing their Enhanced Music CD over the Internet
    • Australian Music Web Site - rock bands
  • orchestras, chamber orchestra
    • Australian World Orchestra - Sydney
      
    • TOPS (The Occasional Performing Sinfonia), Sydney
      
    • YouTube Symphony Orchestra
      
    • UNSW Orchestra and Wind Band, Sydney
    • Queensland Pop Orchestra, Brisbane
      
    • Queensland Youth Orchestra, Brisbane
    • Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra
    • Brisbane Concert Orchestra - community group since 1966
    • North Sydney Symphony Orchestra, NSW - Steven Hillinger conductor
    • Maruki Community Orchestra, Canberra - John Gould director
    • Canberra Times Music and Entertainment Guide
    • National Capital Orchestra, Canberra - community
    • Moscow Virtuosi - chamber orchestra
    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra
    • Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
    • Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney - terrific site! read 'overtures' their newsletter for a laugh!
    • Balmain Sinfonia
      PO Box 230, Balmain 2041
    • Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO)
    • Australian Youth Orchestra
    • Western Australian Youth Orchestra
    • Canberra Youth Music - merger of Canberra Youth Orchestra Society and the Canberra Childrens Choir
    • New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - a real treat, has a huge click-list of orchestras and music info
    • Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney - community
  • chamber music
    • Mark Pharoah, violinist - JS Bach - MP3s
      
    • Australasian Double Reed Society
      
    • Musica Antiqua Russica - early music ensemble
    • Australia Ensemble, UNSW
    • Australian String Quartet - based in Adelaide - Independent Classics hold concerts in Parramatta - went to one 11/01 - 1/2 price tickets via Tickemaster
    • Chamber Music Holidays and Festivals
    • Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, Qld - July each year
    • Classical.net
    • Amateur Chamber Music Society Inc - Sydney
    • Australian Chamber Orchestra - Baroque Virtuosi
  • country, folk, fusion, pop
    • Prince Of Wales Scottish Dancers
    • Accordians n Folk, Sydney
    • Celtic Southern Cross Summer School, Tasmania - also sells instruments
  • brass, wind bands
    
    • Anderson Premier Military Band, Malaysia
    • A Selected Bibliography of Original Concert Band Music
    • RAN Navy Band Online! (Royal Australian Navy Band) - includes samples of their work!
    • Waverley Bondi Beach Band, email secretary@bondibrass.org.au
  • Art Galleries, Museums, Art Furniture, Heritage, Concert Halls, Churches
    • Archibald Portrait Prize, Art Gallery NSW - conductor George Ellis was people's choice in 2007
    • Regional and Public Galleries Association of NSW (RPGNSW)
      
    • Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, Central West
      
    • Cudgegong Gallery, NSW - near Mudgee, Central West - Don Burrows concert
      
    • St Marys Waverley, Sydney
    • City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
    • New South Wales University Theatrical Society (NUTS)
    • Parramatta Riverside Theatres - join mailing list
    • Hills Centre for the Performing Arts, Castle Hill, Sydney
    • Victorian Heritage Database - heritage buildings and shipwrecks
    • NSW Heritage Register
    • Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, NSW - uses Flash heavily - sculpture, art, photography
    • Australian National Maritime Museum - Sydney
    • National Museum of Australia - Canberra
    • Museum Victoria - Melbourne, Australia
    • Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm - live arts
    • Picture Australia - National Library of Australia portal
    • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
    • Bill Suworoff Rustic and Art Furniture, Maryland, USA
    • Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Vic
    • University of Melbourne Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum
  • Societies, Arts Committees
    • Youth2Youth - portal
    • Inner West Cultural Services, Sydney
    • City of Sydney Youth Services - Pine St Youth Programs - community access arts and cultural facility
    • Holroyd Arts Advisory Committee
      • meets once a quarter in Holroyd Centre
      • projects: public art project, main street, family festival
      • works with local community arts bodies like ICE at Parramatta who put out the Artfiles 2000 for Holroyd/Parramatta and run local art gallery events at the Parramatta Heritage Centre
      • contact: Cinzia Guaraldi, Holroyd City Council, PO Box 42, Merrylands NSW 1842 Australia,
        tel 61-2-98409719
    • Asialink - promotes cultural exchange between Australia and Asia - University of Melbourne
    • Artswest Foundation Ltd, PO Box 1424, Parramatta 2124 Australia, phone 61-2-9831 1141, fax 61-2-9890 7010 - culture, music, arts - Blue Mountains, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Fairfield, Holroyd, Parramatta, Blacktown...
    • TOAN (The Orchestras of Australia Network)
    • JOIN - Jewish Ozzies' Inter.Net - voice of Australian Jewish community - Jews are great musicians and singers!
    • BrizWest Community Music Ensnsembles, Inc. - Koss Siwers, Brisbane
    • Australian Flute Society
    • Australian Clarinet and Saxaphone Magazine - Qld Clarient and Saxaphone Society
  • choirs, 'musicals', theatre, opera
    • UNSW Collegium Musicum Choir
      
    • Lydian Singers, Nowra NSW
      
    • Macarthur Singers, Campbelltown NSW
      
    • Macquarie University Singers, Sydney
      
    • Orange Male Voice Choir, Orange NSW - male voice choir - Welsh style (ex Rowland Gregory Orpheus Singers)
      
    • Opera Australia - Sydney
    • RSCM Australia - national ecumenical church-music association
    • Deborah Spencer, Sydney - soprano Recitalist in Art Song, Lieder and French Melodie, and private singing teacher
    • Australian National Choir Association (National Office)
    • Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW
    • Theatre Australia - directory
    • St Francis of Assisi Choir, Paddington, NSW - near us!!
    • Opera Queensland
    • The Oratorio, Opera and Theatre Co & The Australian Italian Opera Company, Sydney, 61-2-9826 6909, director: William Amer, 2 operas per year, amateur but enthusiastic and attract quite a bit of talent - thanks Jenny!
    • University of Western Sydney Nepean Campus - College of Arts, Building BD, South Werrington Campus, NSW - Centre for Contemporary Performance - really good plays!! e.g. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors 3/01
    • Theatre in Illawarra, Wollongong - performs in Sydney too
    • Melbourne Theatre Company
    • Falling Rocks - previously known as GROK - Christian comedy theatre group
    • Georgian Singers chamber choir, Sydney, Australia
      • conductor: Mr Christopher Shepherd, Acting Head of Music at Sydney Grammar School
      • from classical to contemporary
      • weddings a specialty
      • contacts: Heather Stone (02-9520 5281) or Ruth Sappay (02-9522 7920)
      • aspiring males with an ability to sight-read music are welcome to audition for a place in the choir
    • Armidale Drama and Musical Society - NSW New England
    • Parramatta Riverside Theatres, Church St, Parramatta NSW 2150, ph 61-2-96836166, fax 61-2-96384014 - see Tickmaster for bookings and events
    • Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society Inc., PO Box 222, Merrylands NSW 2160 Australia, membership /info: 61-2-9609 2303, 61-419-215-989, bookings: 61-2-9610 0752
    • Ian Lawrence, Sydney - a capella contact - 61-2-9953 7902, 0407 431 831
    • Maronite English Choir, Sydney
    • Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS)
    • ANU School of Music
    • Balmain Consort (20 member choir)
      They rehearse on a Monday night at the ex-Uniting Church, 344 Darling St, Balmain.
      Contact John Hyde on 02-97996064 (h) or 02-98498536 (w).
    • Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies' Association (AICSA)
    • Eastern Suburbs Musical Society Inc.
      PO Box 542, Maroubra 2035
  • WEB-ARTS - Aussie music and arts links
  • artdesy.com - art links
  • Adelaide Football Club Ltd - Luke Dollman, our past orchestra conductor's footy team - the Crows!
  • University of Sydney Union
  • ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology)
  • Bondi Beach Home Page - near where we perform!!
  • Australian Jockey Club, Randwick, NSW
• Broadcasters, Online Radio Stations, e-zines, marketing, directories, references, Web portals, competitions
  • SoundBarter - trade skills as musician
  • 2MCR 100.3FM - Campbelltown - country, jazz, rock, retro...
  • Nepean Blue on-line magazine - arts in Penrith region
  • Artfiles - artists, musicians, sculptors in Western Sydney - due to launch 11/01
  • artsACT - Canberra
  • Northwest Music Network - USA - Washington, Oregon, Idaho
  • Oxford Music Online - Groves
  • LISWA Infolink Database - Perth, WA
  • NewsSpace / Courier Newspapers - Sydney, NSW - Southern and Wentworth Courier - facts
  • AUSMUSIC - Australian Contemporary Music Development Company Pty Ltd- music industry promo and education - federal govt + music industry support
  • SBS - Special Broadcasting Service - Australia's National Multicultural Broadcaster - they have a youth orchestra in Sydney
  • Eastside Radio 2RES-FM 89.7, Sydney - your voice, your music - Robert Teicher, our ex-choir director used to do the Jewish Hour on here! Great Australian jazz station!
  • University of New South Wales Campus Life: Arc and ARC Tharunka magazine
  • Telstra Yellow Pages for looking up agents and musicians!
  • ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
• Musical Instruments
  • History of Sebastian Erard, Piano and Harp Maker - they also build pianos
  • Flute Acoustics - John Smith and Joe Wolfe, Music Acoustics Group, School of Physisics, The University of New South Wales - very good essays! John plays double bass and Joe plays oboe, cor anglais and saxophone in community orchestras.
  • Boosey & Hawkes - sheet and audio music hire - Bernard Kirkpatrick (hire music manager) - Boosey and Hawkes International site
  • The-Sheet-Music-Store.com
  • EMCW catalogue - Peter G Grimshaw (ex Boosey and Hawkes director)
  • Recorder Home Page - not bad!!
• Funders, Supporters, Councils, Businesses
  • CyberBondi - business directory of Waverley-Bondi
  • NSW Ministry for the Arts
  • Community Business Partnership - an initiative of the Prime Minister's roundtable
  • NSW Local Councils - Dept of Local Govt, NSW - for contacting about organising/sponsoring your trip Down Under :)
  • Woollahra Municipal Council, Eastern Sydney
  • Dept of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
  • Australia Council

North, Central and South America

• Minnesota Orchestra, USA
• Lehigh University Choral Arts, USA
• Lincoln Municipal Band, USA
• Burlington City Arts, Vermont, USA
• Ontario Music - Rock, Jazz
• Heritage Chorale
• Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra
• The New Deal Stage - Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-39 - American Memory, Library of Congress
• Music for the Nation - American Sheet Music - Music Division, Library of Congress - amazing! Sheet music on screen!
• WKSU - Ohio - classical radio station you can listen to over the Net using Real Audio
• Guillermo Venegas Lloveras - Puerto Rican composer with MIDI files
• Grace University Chorale, Omaha, Nebraska - travelling to Australia early 98
• Michal Beit-Halachmi, clarinetist
• Florida State University School of Music - choir, orchestra... - very exciting place!
• Big Bend Community Orchestra, Tallahassee, Florida
• MIT Musical Theatre Guild
• Fort Lauderdale Ballet Classique
• WETA/CapAccess - Greater Washington Community Network - great what's on column - we need one in Australia!
• San Francisco Symphony
• The Shakespeare Theatre
• Israeli Embassy, Washington DC - includes cultural and music pages
• Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources - excellent
• Core Music Reference Guide - William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music
• To the World's Bassoonists - International Double Reed Society Newsletter - Philadelphia Orchestra Bassoon Section
• WSHU-FM, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
• Houston Choral Site - includes Choralist newsletter plus some very good choir links
• International Horn Society - pretty good!! Community Music Mailing List... - boerger.org
• Justin Locke Productions - script writer and producer of childrens', family and pops concert programs for orchestra and actors - really hilarious!! (Boston, MA, USA) - includes sample scripts!!
• Community Band and Orchestra Contact Info - USA, Canada

Europe

• intute - arts portal
• Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, UK (BBC Site)
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Suffolk Concert Band, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

Miscellaneous

• Nonprofit Governance and Management Center - resources for commmittees and boards of non-profit groups - on ABC Radio National 12/02
• Australian Government Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
• Scouts of Australia - Victorian Branch
• Event Marketing: Making the Most of Sponsorship Dollars