Graham Sattler is a leading director of a regional conservatorium of music, one of 17 in the Australian state of New South Wales, population 8 million. In Australia, only NSW has such a resource in regional areas. These institutions are community-designed and managed; and receive a partial subsidy from the state. They enable skilled professionals to live in regional towns, providing music lessons, classes, performance opportunities for individual students, music education services on contract to schools, some tertiary music education opportunities, and advanced practice in two-way video instruction, conferencing and more.