Jane Coop

PIANO

Jane Coop is one of Canada’s most distinguished pianists. Advanced studies were with the Austrian-American pianist Anton Kuerti, and subsequently with Leon Fleisher.

 Since winning both the CBC’s national radio competition and the Washington International Piano Competition, and making debuts at the Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and NYC’s Alice Tully Hall, she has performed as soloist in some forty concerti with virtually all the orchestras of Canada, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, the Seattle and Portland Symphony Orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony, the orchestras of Shanghai and Xiamen, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Coop’s solo career has taken her to the USA, England, France, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Hungary, Russia, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well has from coast to coast in her home country. 

Her chamber music collaborations have involved members of the Juilliard, Pacifica and Orford String Quartets, as well as two longtime partnerships: formerly with violinist Andrew Dawes, and now with cellist Hanry Shapard. 

Her twenty CDs have received wide praise from Musical America. From 1980 to 2012, Coop was Professor of Piano at the University of British Columbia’s School of Music. She was honored with the Order of Canada in 2012 for lifetime achievement in the arts, and the Order of British Columbia in 2019.