026 INTERVIEW
Peter with his brother Drago Trojkovic and co-Director of CMI, Graeme Mitchell
It is thought that Aborigines from South East Asia were the first people to set foot - more than 50,000 years ago - on the land that we know today as Australia. However, it wasn’t until 1770 that Captain James Cook claimed the island for British settlement. Over the years various communities settled into different Australian territories, but after the two World Wars had a significant effect on the population and the economy, the country was in need of some revitalisation. Investements paid off when in the 1960s migrants from Europe and the Middle East started to arrive in Australia, which today is home to people from more than 200 different nationalities. Among the migrants of the early 1960s was the Trojkovic family, originally from a small island off the coast of Croatia. The family uprooted its three children from the Adriatic sea for a life in Geelong, a provincial town 75km southwest of Melbourne. It was there that Peter Trojkovic along with his brothers Luke and Drago were educated and their path into the music business began, although Peter tried his hand at another trade first. By his own admittance, Peter wasn’t a studious child and he left education at the earliest possible opportunity, choosing to take up an apprenticeship instead. Eager to plunge feet first into a working environment Peter accepted his first job offer as an apprentice in the building trade and despite knowing that he didn’t really want to spend his life in the trade, he certainly gave it his all. Peter explained: “On completing my four year apprenticeship I entered in to a partnership with a fellow worker and by the time I was 21 I had paid off my first house and had at least six employees working for me.” This set Peter in good stead but he was still just a 21-year-old, and like many youths in the ‘70s he dreamt of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. While he’d been learning the building trade, his brothers had formed a band so he decided to try his hand at being their roadie and “at the weekends we would spend our time building and selling speaker cabinets out of our parent’s garage,” said Peter. The manufacturing business gathered pace quickly so Peter’s brother, Drago sourced premises and set up shop selling professional audio equipment and musical instruments. Peter kept a watchful eye on the business and always offered a helping hand, but it wasn’t until he reached the age of 24 when he made the decision to jump ship from the builders yard into the world of professional audio. With an enhanced
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“This quickly grew to become the second largest audio production company in Australia, boasting
clients such as LRB, Men at Work, Midnight Oil, John Farnham and many others.”
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