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 –  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)  – 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 - (Trophy & $200 voucher) – Dante Clavijo
• Ron Cox Vocal Award - (Trophy & $100 voucher) – Laila Bradshaw
• Original Composition Award -(Trophy & $50 voucher) – Shelby Grace
• People’s Choice Award - (Trophy & $100 voucher) Matilda Rose & The Brademann Brothers

There were 11 competitors in the Voice Secondary heat

The Brademann Brothers were a popular choice