An Invitation from Viki…. Hello all!! I would like to invite you to come along and celebrate the end of my music degree at The Australian Institute of Music! The final recital gives each student the fantastic opportunity to share our passion and love for music with our friends and family and play some awesome music. [...]
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)
A big congratulations to our students who are now going on to tertiary music schools and conservatoriums this year. Esa Janara will be studying classical guitar with Minh Le Hoang at the Canberra School of Music, ANU. Brodie Nossiter just rang me today to tell me that he has just been accepted into Northern Rivers Conservatorium of [...]