are provided with access to the Conservatorium Library, one of Australia's finest academic music libraries run by the University of Sydney. The Conservatorium Library functions as both a secondary school library and a university research library. Its collection dates from the establishment of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music. The Library holds some 100,000 scores, 32,000 books, 20 000 CDs/DVDs, 12,000 vinyl recordings, print and electronic journals, and databases of streamed recordings and digitised scores. In addition to music, the collection covers school subjects such as creative arts, English, human society and its environment, languages, mathematics, science, and technology. School life and admissions The School is staffed and administered by the New South Wales Department of Education. Instrumental tuition, chamber music programs, and individual composition lessons are provided by Sydney University staff and other highly qualified and highly regarded professional musicians, composers, conductors and musicologists. Students regularly participate in Conservatorium concerts and masterclasses. Admission is through a competitive process of auditions and workshops that assess each applicant's potential and current level of achievement. Auditions are held each year around August. Prospective students must also sit the NSW Selective High School Placement Test or other psychometric assessment. The Conservatorium High School Parents and Citizens Association encourages parental representation on curriculum, finance, welfare and school management committees, and in a variety of fund-raising activities. Curriculum Subjects offered for students in Years 7–10 include: music, science, English, history, mathematics, geography, Mandarin, visual arts, design and technology, drama, personal development and health, performance workshop program, physical education, sports. Subjects offered to students in Years 11–12 may include: music 2, music extension, music performance board endorsed course (performance workshop program, ensembles, chamber music and choir, house concerts), ancient history, modern history, history extension, biology, chemistry, physics, English advanced, English extension 1, English extension 2, French, German, mathematics general, mathematics, mathematics extension 1, mathematics extension 2, visual arts, and Chinese. Music program and concerts Conservatorium High School students take part in a full program of individual, small ensemble, orchestral and choral music training and performance, as well as tuition in composition, music history, and music theory. Students receive tuition on their chosen instruments mostly from teachers from the Sydney Conservatorium, a faculty of the University of Sydney. The standard semester requirement for all students is 16 one-to-one weekly lessons of one hour's duration on their major instrument, and 16 one-to-one weekly lessons of half-an-hour's duration on