About The Riverina Summer School for Strings
The Riverina Summer School for Strings is a residential string school that takes place in Wagga Wagga, NSW in the second or third week of January each year. It is a non-profit organisation run by a volunteer committee. It was founded by internationally recognised Australian cellist Nelson Cooke in 1988 in order to provide a fully-immersive string experience for students of all ages and abilities in a regional Australian setting. It is open to bowed string players and guitarists of all ages and regularly attracts some of Australia's best string players to its staff. In addition to Nelson Cooke, it has been lead by highly regarded performers and teachers such as Christopher Martin, Carl Pini, Goetz Richter and Susan Collins. The next annual school will be held in January 2027 and esteemed violist Jane Hazelwood will lead the school as Music Director.