This year’s 11th Cooma Music Competition was a a great success with over 50 musicians performing competing in heats all day from 12 noon. And then 16 were selected  perform in a Finals Concert at 7 pm to win 8 major prizes
Mia Mrsic won her heats in Piano Secondary & Strings Secondary. Mia went on to win The Peter de Jager Piano Prize & The P D Murphy Award for Strings
Here are the results from the heats:
- Piano Primary – Ella Mrsic
- Piano Secondary – Mia Mrsic
- Strings Primary – Ella Mrsic
- Strings Secondary – Mia Mrsic
- Voice Primary – Isobel Walker
- Woodwind & Brass – Rachel Bennett
- Classical Guitar Primary – Olo Brademann
- Classical Guitar Secondary – Darcy Clayton
- Instrumental Ensemble – The Brademann Brothers
- Voice Secondary – Matilda Rose
- Group Voice Secondary – Emma & Matilda
- Voice Open – Nancy Groves
- Original Secondary – Shelby Grace
- Original Open – Â Timothy Cooke
- Wild Cards – Dante Clavijo & Laila Bradshaw
Here are the results from the Finals Concert:
- Frank Scott Music Award – for any concert band instrument (Trophy & $50 voucher) Â – Rachel Bennett
- Russell & Jackie Fox Music Award – for most outstanding primary performance (Trophy & $50 voucher) – Olo Brademann
- P D Murphy Award for Strings – for best performance on Violin, recipe Viola or Cello (Trophy & $50 voucher) – Mia Mrsic
- Peter de Jager Piano Prize – for best piano performance (Trophy & $200 voucher) – Mia Mrsic
- Narrawong Classical Guitar Award -Â (Trophy & $200 voucher) – Dante Clavijo
- Ron Cox Vocal Award -Â (Trophy & $100 voucher) – Laila Bradshaw
- Original Composition Award -(Trophy & $50 voucher) – Shelby Grace
- People’s Choice Award -Â (Trophy & $100 voucher) Matilda Rose & The Brademann Brothers
There were 11 competitors in the Voice Secondary heat
The Brademann Brothers were a popular choice
