JANE COOP
PIANO
"Her playing is straightforward, intelligent, poised, and sensitive. Her tone is warm, her technique flawless, her temperament poetic."
- MUSICAL AMERICA
REVIEWS
"Her playing is straightforward, intelligent, poised, and sensitive. Her tone is warm, her technique flawless, her temperament poetic."
- MUSICAL AMERICA
“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
"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 style proved enormously appealing: light, clear, sensitive, intelligent and with a grace that suited early Beethoven." [Piano Concerto No. 1]
- THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"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
"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
“ [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
“In a well-built program, she tackled demanding works with ease and showed a gift for cogent, decisive styling.”
- THE WASHINGTON POST
BIOGRAPHY
Elegant, experienced, and brilliant, are words to describe pianist Jane Coop who takes her art form to a higher stratum. Renowned for her 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.
Jane has worked with prominent 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 in every province as well as Yukon. Highlights this season, include a concerto with the Saskatoon Symphony, a residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in Nova Scotia, among solo and chamber recitals.
Jane has recorded extensively and has garnered multiple JUNO nominations. This newest title, her 17th recording to her discography, Three Keyboard Masters: Bach, Beethoven, & Rachminoff, reflects the depth of her pianistic canon. She is also fortunate to have four concerto recordings, various chamber works recorded with the Satie String Quartet of Paris and the complete Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas with esteemed colleague Andrew Dawes in her list.
Ms. Coop's major teachers were Anton Kuerti and Leon Fleisher. Rounding out her significant contribution to Canadian music, Jane served as Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia's School of Music for more than three decades. In December 2012, for her years of artistic dedication to this country, Jane Coop was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Jane Coop is a Steinway Artist.
January 2023
DISCOGRAPHY
Three Keyboard Masters
Skylark 1901
Chamber Music of Brahms and Jenner
(with Martin Hackleman, Martin Beaver, & James Campbell)
Skylark 1701
Beethoven: The Young Innovator
Skylark 1601
A Journey of Longing
(w/Donna Brown & Yariv Aloni)
Skylark SKY1501
A Century of Piano Classics
SKY0901
Romantic Piano, Volume I (CBC re-issue)
(works by Debussy, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, et al)
SKY0702
Quatuor Satie
(Works by Ravel, Mâche, Fauré; Satie String Quartet)
SKY0601
Bach: Keyboard Suites
Skylark 8201
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Skylark 8802
Beethoven: Complete Piano & Violin Sonatas
(Double disc w/ Andrew Dawes)
SKY0101
Music of Bax and Bowen
(w/ Doris Lederer, viola)
Centaur CRC2660
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
(Britten, Rawsthorne ,Ireland and Finzi; w/ CBC Radio Orchestra, Bernardi)
CBC SMCD 5208
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
(works by Debussy, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, et al)
CBC MVCD 1083
Themes and Variations
(works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Fauré)
Skylark 9201
Piano Concertos
(Bartok, Prokofiev and Malcolm Forsyth; w/ Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernardi)
CBC SMCD 5124
PREFERRED CONCERTO LIST
2020–23
Bach
Concerto BWV 1053 & BWV 1056
Barber
Concerto
Bartók
Concerto No. 3
Beethoven
All Concerti
Choral Fantasy
Brahms
Concerto No. 1
Britten
Piano Concerto in D
Chopin
Concerto No. 2
Ernő Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Song
Gerald 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-Saëns
Concerto No. 2 & No. 4
Schumann
Concerto in a minor
Tchaikovsky
Concerto No. 1
Healey Willan*
Piano Concerto
*Denotes Canadian Composer
Recital repertoire available upon request
Master classes and workshops available
Other concerti available upon request
