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Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia. it is located next to the Royal Botanic Gardens and incorporates a faculty of the University of Sydney.
The oldest building of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - an indeed its landmark - is a whimsical gothic structure with turrets. It was built in 1815 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie as a stable, and was often nicknamed the "palace for horses".
A hundred years later, in 1915, the horses moved out and music students moved in, when the Government of New South Wales under William Holman redeveloped the building into a music school. It opend on 6 March, 1916 as the NSW State Conservatorium of Music under the directorship of Belgian conductor and violinist Henri Verbrugghen.
The Conservatorium was amalgamated with the University of Sydney in 1990, and renamed the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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