Imogen Cooper

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Imogen Cooper (born August 28, 1949 ) is an English pianist .

Life

At the age of twelve, Cooper became a student of Jacques Février and Yvonne Lefébure at the Conservatoire de Paris . After graduating with a First Prize, she continued her training in Vienna with Alfred Brendel , Paul Badura-Skoda and Jörg Demus . In 1969 she won the Mozart Memorial Prize in London . A career as a piano soloist, song accompanist and chamber musician followed. She recorded Schubert's major song cycles with Wolfgang Holzmair and his piano trios with Raphael Oleg and Sonia Wieder-Atherton and recorded several Mozart piano concertos . Her repertoire includes Beethoven's piano concertos , both Chopin's concertos , Schumann's concert, Ravel's G major concert and Bartók's third concert .

She toured Europe, North America, Australia and Japan, performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa in Carnegie Hall and gave concerts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra , the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra .

In 1996 she premiered Voices of Angels , a piano quintet by Brett Dean , with a chamber music group of the Berliner Philharmoniker . She herself commissioned Thomas Adès to compose a solo work ( Traced Overhead ) , which she premiered in the same year. In 2003 she premiered Decorated Skin by Deirdre Gribbin . In 2007 she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

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SURNAME Cooper, Imogen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1949