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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s some more pictures of Carols in the Park. Click on Thumbnails to see larger image:
As music teachers we are often presented with wonderful artwork made by our students. Here are just some examples to share with you. Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images:
Title: Cooma Carols in the Park Location: Centennial Park, Sharp Street Cooma NSW Link out: Click here Description: Community Carol singing & family fun. Christmas is a wonderful time to spend in the company of family and friends. A great way to commence Christmas celebrations is at the annual community Carols held in Cooma’s beautiful Centennial [...]
Christmas Café was an afternoon of live music performed by the students and teachers at Cooma School of Music. The performers played very confidently in the relaxed atmosphere of the “Music Café”. (Please click on thumbnails for larger image)
Brodie was knocked off his bike by a car 3 weeks ago during the school holidays. He was badly hurt. He had a broken leg and ankle, broken right wrist and knuckle, broken left hand thumb and lots of bruising. Luckily he was wearing a helmet; it was totally destroyed, but it protected his head. [...]
Café Music was a great success last Sunday afternoon (28th June). Over 30 students of Cooma School of Music entertained a large and appreciative audience. The “Café Music” concept was a bit of an experiment, or variation on the theme of “student concert”. We decided to “play” this in the “key of relaxed”. The audience was seated at [...]
Brodie, Chris and friends had a heap of fun busking outside of Coles on Friday night. Cold? No way! They’ve got their music to keep them warm!
Lucas has just got a new 1C Alhambra classical guitar. He’s traded in his 3/4 size guitar and now has his very own full size solid top Spanish made guitar. This lovely guitar has a solid red cedar top, with mahogany back and sides. The neck is mahogany with indian rosewood fingerboard. He can now [...]