About

The Orange Chamber Music Festival is the premier Art Music event of the Central West of NSW, presenting Australian and International artists and ensembles within a variety of venues around the Orange Region. Described as a world-class event, and praised for its excellence in programming Orange Chamber Music Festival is defining and establishing its vision as a Destination Festival with an artistic program of the highest standards.

Indeed, Orange is where culture and the food & wine scene merge, with an incredible cultural precinct, historic venues, stunning churches, boutique hotels, art galleries, shops, cellar doors, unique experiences and fresh produce.  All of these attributes make Orange a welcoming and exciting destination within regional NSW. At only 3.5hrs drive from Sydney or Canberra Orange is famed for its rich produce-yielding soils, cool-climate wines and spectacular scenery. 

To celebrate the city's vibrant cultural scene, Orange Chamber Music Festival has created Cultured, a free community event that combines music, visual arts, heritage and literature in a full day of activities in and  around the cultural precinct. Usually held on the Saturday of the Festival week, Cultured invites the local community -and visitors- to experience classical music along with the displays and activities of the Orange Regional Gallery, the Orange Regional Museum, the Orange City Library and outdoor areas of the Civic Square.

Orange Chamber Music Festival provides a national platform for professional local musicians to engage with our diverse audience, and facilitates artistic collaborations between established visiting artists and young musicians of the Central West via the Cultured Youth Orchestra, a project involving talented school-aged musicians of the Central West.  

OCMF is a cross cultural, cross generational and LGBTQIA+ safe platform where discrimination is not tolerated.