Music

Music holds a central and celebrated place in the life of Santa Sabina College and is one of the College’s premier academic and co-curricular offerings. Home to one of the largest school-based string offerings in the country, Santa Sabina provides an exceptional, vertically integrated music education that nurtures both personal growth and artistic excellence.

Students are provided with rich pathways for development in performance, listening and composition within a whole school culture that values music as a shared language. Carefully cultivated collaborations with leading professional musicians, composers, ensembles and partner schools strengthen learning, connection and identity across the College community.

Students perform across a wide range of string, brass, woodwind, percussion and vocal ensembles, contributing to liturgies, masses, major College events, Celebration of Music concerts, fortnightly recitals and international concert tours. Hallmarks of music at Santa Sabina include performances in major Sydney venues such as City Recital Hall, Sydney Town Hall and St Mary’s Cathedral, massed ensemble experiences embedded in College life, and the integration of classroom learning with large-scale performance opportunities.

Santa Sabina is also proud to be the home of the Sydney Youth Orchestras strings, with a number of students awarded SYO scholarships each year.

Watch and Listen – Gala Concert 2026

Watch the première of the specially commissioned Instruments of Peace by Amy Richardson with orchestration by Andrew Howes – performed by the Massed Choirs featuring Years 4-7 students, the Laudare Singers, Siena Singers, College Choir and Guest Voices with the Symphony Orchestra of Santa Sabina College in Sydney Town Hall on 23 June 2026.