Nanaimo Conservatory of Music presents: Jane Coop

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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
2:30 PM

Jane Coop has established herself as a musician of stature. Her intelligence and perception, together with her refined and heartfelt approach to music, make her a pianist whom audiences want to hear many times over.

One of Canada�s most prominent and distinguished artists, Jane was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. At the age of nineteen she won First Prize in the CBC�s national radio competition (the Young Performers Competition), and this, along with prizes at New York�s Kosziusko Foundation Competition and the Washington International Competition, launched her career. In the early years she made recital debuts at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall (now called Weill Hall), as well as giving performances with the Toronto Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic the Victoria Symphony and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. In 1976 she was invited to tour the New England States as soloist with Mario Bernardi and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada in Mozart�s Concerto in D minor, K.466.

Subsequently she has played in over twenty countries, in such eminent halls 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 (Paris). In her own country she has given concerts from north to south: Whitehorse (Yukon) and Niagara Falls (ON), and from west to east: Tofino (BC) and St. John�s (Nfld) and many, many cities, towns and communities in between. She is in fact one of the few who has remained resident in Canada throughout her career. Her sixteen recordings, three of which have been nominated for Juno awards, have garnered glowing reviews and have been heard on classical radio programs in many countries. In December 2012, Jane Coop was appointed to the Order of Canada, our country�s highest honour for lifetime achievement.

�It is difficult to pinpoint what makes this pianist so expressive, for in her playing everything works together�Coop has that extra something that lets a pianist become a poet.� - Montreal Gazette

�She beguiled her audience with a style of playing that contained clarity of line, poise, finesse, polish and a high degree of sensitivity.� - Calgary Herald

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