I’ve just been sent some photos of the Peter de Jager Cooma concert. It reminded how great that concert was. Wow can that boy play!!! There’s some nice images of Marie Cox giving Peter a belated Principles Award for Excellence in Music from Cooma North Primary School
This year’s Young@Art was a great success. Young local musicians produced a wonderful concert of which they should be very proud. The Snowy Mountains Arts Council presented this concert. The SMAC have recently purchased a brand new Kaiwai grand piano and the new piano was another “star of the show”. This was the first ever [...]
Peter de Jager, concert pianist and composer will be performing in Cooma in November. Peter grew up in Cooma and has now achieved an enormous reputation in music as a concert pianist, accompanist and composer. This year he won the International Chopin Piano Competition. Cooma Concert Details: When: Sunday 6 November 2011 at 3.00 pm [...]
Canberra based heavy metal band “I Exist” will be launching their latest CD ” The Broken Passage” at The Basement, 2 Cohen Street Belconnen ACT on Saturday 25 June at 8pm. The high successful band features Simon Murphy on of our past music students at Cooma School of Music. Here’s some handy links: http://www.bmamag.com/articles/features/20110614-i-exist/ http://www.myspace.com/iexistmusic
It was great to see Brodie this week. Brodie is currently studying at Southern Cross University in Lismore. He doing a bachelor of contemporary music and he’s really enjoying it! He doing a lot of playing, performing and composing. Here’s some of the cool things he’s been doing:
Monaro High School presents the Stephen Sounheim muiscal thiller, “Sweeney Todd” (School Edition). Performances are at the Monaro High School hall. June 8th & 9th at 7.00pm June 10th at 7.30pm Tickets available from the school & The Fabric Salon” (Vale Street, Cooma) Ticket prices: $20 & $15 concession Family tickets-4 for $60
Harry just got got his brand new DXP drum kit. His mum, Helen says he’s been wanting a drum kit for years. This great 5 piece rock kit comes complete with cymbals, drum stool and even sticks. He a very happy. Available from: Cooma School of Music Shop 2, Parkview Arcade, 123 Sharp Street, Cooma, NSW 2630 [...]
We had a wonderful afternoon of music making at Café Music. There were over 40 people attending and we had some great music performances in a very relaxed atmosphere. Here’s some photos: (Click on the thumbnails for larger images)
Robert Shearer is an extremely gifted tenor and singing teacher. He has since first starting music studies in1999 been passionately committed to his singing career and he has undergone extensive vocal training and music studies in some of Australia’s leading Tertiary music institutions . Robert received a Bachelor of Music Degree (Performance) from Queensland Conservatorium [...]
All the way from the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, singer-songwriter Matt Charlesworth has moved to Cooma. Matt began playing guitar at 14 years of age. The sudden interest in playing guitar became a great passion for all things musical. This led Matt to pursue music to the tertiary level. In 2008 Matt completed his music [...]