Win a Fantastic Guitar! Monaro Country Music Muster

    GREG BENNETT SIGNATURE D5BN – Worthington. Dreadnought size guitar. Solid Sitka spruce top. Striped mahogany back and sides. Creme bound Nato neck with rosewood fingerboard. Pearl type dot inlays. 5 ply creme binding. Abalone type rosette. Tortoise teardrop scratchplate. Grover chrome diecast machine heads. D’Addario EXP strings. Natural top.   AVAILABLE FROM: Cooma School of [...]

Bombala CMA 19th Annual Talent Quest – Saturday 25 February 2012

It’s that time of year again – Bombala Talent Quest time! The good people of the Bombala and District Country Music Association Inc. are once again presenting the Annual Talent Quest. This is their 19th year now and they’re getting pretty good at this. It’s an extremely well run event and needless to say a [...]

Cooma Music Competition 2011 – A Great Success!

It was huge day of music and fun on Sunday the 18th of September. The 6th annual Cooma Music Competition was a resounding success. This year we had over 80 contestants performing in 19 heats during the day. The Finals Concert capped off the day with 22 performances and a presentation of 8 trophies. The [...]

Cooma Music Competition 2011

New Piano Prize for Cooma Music Competition

This year’s Cooma Music Competition will have a new piano prize: The Peter de Jager Piano Prize. (incudes $200 cash) Peter de Jager lived in Cooma for a time and learnt the piano from his mother, Helen, at Cooma School of Music. Peter has gone on to achieve great success in his music career. This [...]

Peter de Jager wins Australian International 2011 Chopin Piano Competition!

Peter de Jager was born in South Africa on December 1st, 1989, his family relocating to Australia in 1992. Soon after, Peter lived in Cooma with his mother Helen, his father John, and his sister Ruth until he was 7 years old. Helen de Jager taught piano with us at Cooma School of Music. Peter [...]

Australian International Chopin Piano Competition 2011

ANU School of Music, Canberra 1-8 May 2011 (Click here for more information)

The Tim Draxl Performing Arts Scholarship

Congratulations to the winners and participates of the inaugural Tim Draxl Performing Arts Scholarship 2011. The winners of this year’s scholarship were: Kayla Gay Karl Svenson Lillie Siegenthaler Background Singer, pianist and actor Tim Draxl grew up in Berridale and enjoyed wonderful support from the Snowy River Shire community as a young performer.  Having experienced [...]

Bombala CMA 18th Annual Talent Quest – Saturday 26 February

It’s that time of year again – Bombala Talent Quest time! The good people of the Bombala and District Country Music Association Inc. are once again presenting the Annual Talent Quest. This is their 18th year now and they’re getting pretty good at this. It’s an extremely well run event and needless to say a [...]

Cooma Music Competition Was A Great Success

Well, what a huge day and evening it was on Sunday. But it was fun! We had over 55 performances in the heats during the afternoon and 16 performances in the Finals Concert. A special thanks again to the judges, Glenyss Allen, Matt Charlesworth, Marián Budoŝ and Ivana Troŝelj. Our wonderful Glenyss judged the solo piano heats [...]