JANE COOP
PIANO
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BIOGRAPHY
Elegant, experienced, and brilliant, are words to describe pianist Jane Coop who takes her art form to a higher stratum. Renowned for her highly appealing performance style, she is considered Canada's premier Mozart interpreter by The Calgary Herald, and has consistently been praised for her capacity to graciously carry the sensitivity and spirit of the music she plays, right to her listeners. Appreciative audiences in New York, London, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Prague, Beijing, Tokyo and across Canada have been thrilled by her artistry.
Jane has worked with eminent conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Rudolf Barshai and with orchestras around the world including the Royal Philharmonic, Seattle and Oregon Symphonies, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra and most orchestras in Canada. As a respected concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Coop has made appearances in eminent halls such as the Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Beijing Concert Hall and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In her own country, she has given concerts from north to south: Whitehorse, YK to Niagara Falls, ON, and from west to east: Tofino, BC to St. John’s, Nfld and many, many cities, towns and communities in between.
Jane has recorded extensively and has garnered multiple JUNO nominations. The latest recording addition titled, A Century of Piano Classics, was released in the winter of 2010 and features works by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin. Jane's rapidly growing discography also consists of chamber works by French composers - Ravel, Fauré and Mâche, recorded with the Satie String Quartet of Paris and the complete Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas with esteemed colleague Andrew Dawes.
Ms. Coop's major teachers were Anton Kuerti and Leon Fleisher. Rounding out her significant contribution to Canadian music, Jane currently serves as Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia's School of Music. A class act in every sense, Jane Coop's musicianship is timeless.
Jane Coop is a Steinway Artist.
(as of September 2011)
REVIEWS
"Coop's style proved enormously appealing: light, clear, sensitive, intelligent and with a grace that suited early Beethoven." [Piano Concerto No. 1]
- THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"This exquisite recital was played with remarkable sensitivity and refinement by Jane Coop"
- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"...a bravura performance, and at the end, the audience jumped to its feet."
- THE VANCOUVER SUN
“ [Coop’s] exuberant and passionate rendition of Beethoven’s lesser known work, Sonata No. 4 in E flat, Op. 7 mesmerized the audience. You could hear a pin drop in the dramatic pauses of the first movement, Allegro molto e con brio in E flat major.”
- www.reviewvancouver.org
"Coop is totally convincing throughout, with an ear for beautiful phrasing and delicate texture amidst the vigorous bravura displays." [English Piano Concerti: SMCD5208]
- THE WHOLENOTE MAGAZINE
"Jane Coop, Canada’s premier Mozart pianist, was on hand to do honours at the keyboard, giving another spirited, musically sophisticated account of one of her favourite composer’s music."
- THE CALGARY HERALD
“It is difficult to pinpoint what makes this pianist so expressive, for in her playing everything works together: technique, sense of style, tempo, sensitivity of touch, phrasing and dynamic shading. Coop has that extra something that lets a pianist become a poet.”
- THE GAZETTE, Montreal
“In a well-built program, she tackled demanding works with ease and showed a gift for cogent, decisive styling.”
- THE WASHINGTON POST
PREFERRED CONCERTO LIST
2011-2013
Bach Concerto BWV 1053 & BWV 1056
Barber Concerto
Bartok Concerto No. 3
Beethoven All Concerti & The Chorale Fantasy
Brahms Concerto No. 1
Britten Piano Concerto in D
Chopin Concerto No. 2
Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
Finzi Eclogue
Malcolm Forsyth Concerto (1972)
Franck Variations Symphoniques
Liszt Concerto No. 1
Mozart Concerto K. 271, K. 414, K. 449, K. 459, K. 466, K. 467, K. 482, K. 488, K. 491, K. 503 & K. 595
Marlos Nobre Desafio vii for piano and orchestra
Prokofiev Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov Concerto No. 1
Ravel Concerto in G & Concerto for the Left Hand
Saint-Saens Concerto Nos. 2 & 4
Schumann Concerto in a minor
Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1
Healey Willan Piano Concerto
Recital repertoire available upon request
Master classes and workshops available
Other concerti available upon request
DISCOGRAPHY
A Century of Piano Classics SKY0901
Romantic Piano, Volume I (CBC re-issue) SKY0702
(works by Debussy, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, et al)
Quatuor Satie SKY0601
(Works by Ravel, Mâche, Fauré; Satie String Quartet)
Bach: Keyboard Suites Skylark 8201
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Skylark 8802
Beethoven: Complete Piano & Violin Sonatas SKY0101
(Dbl disc w/ Andrew Dawes)
Music of Bax and Bowen Centaur CRC2660
(w/ Doris Lederer, viola)
Brahms and Jenner Trios (w/ Beaver, Campbell and Hackelman) CBC MVCD 1133
Chopin: Nocturnes and Mazurkas Skylark 9601
Chopin: The Late Works Skylark 9902
English Piano Concerti CBC SMCD 5208
(Britten, Rawsthorne ,Ireland and Finzi; w/ CBC Radio Orchestra, Bernardi)
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Skylark 8501
Mozart: Piano Pieces Skylark 8801
Mozart: Piano Quartets (w/ members of the Orford Quartet) Skylark 9002
Romantic Piano, Volume II CBC MVCD 1083
(works by Debussy, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, et al)
Themes and Variations Skylark 9201
(works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Fauré
Piano Concertos CBC SMCD 5124
(Bartok, Prokofiev and Malcolm Forsyth; w/ Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernardi)
LINKS
Artist Website
www.janecoop.com
Recording Label
www.skylark-music.com
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
University of British Columbia
www.music.ubc.ca
INSTRUMENTALISTS
Piano
Lucille Chung
Jane Coop
Michael Kim
James Parker
Piano Duo
Anagnoson & Kinton
Bax & Chung
Violin
Martin Beaver
Erika Raum
Bassoon
Nadina Mackie Jackson
Trumpet & Corno
Guy Few
ENSEMBLES
Piano Trio
Gryphon Trio
Trumpet & Bassoon
guy&nadina
NARRATOR
Colin Fox
WORLD MUSIC
Cuban Music Ensemble
Luis Mario Ochoa Quintet
SPECIAL PROJECT
Music-as-Theatre
The Schumann Letters
