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Andrew Cooperstock, Guest Pianist Pianist Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared in most of the fifty states as well as throughout Europe, Australia, and Latin America. Recent engagements have included performances at New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls, as well as at the United Nations. He has also been featured in recitals and concerto appearances at the Chautauqua and Brevard music festivals, in Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Baltimore, and in such foreign countries as England, Scotland, France, Germany, Monaco, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Latvia, Ukraine, Peru, Chile, and Panama, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, WFMT Chicago, WQXR New York, KUT Austin, and on Minnesota Public Radio, Radio France, and the Australian and British Broadcasting Corporations. An advocate for new music, Mr. Cooperstock has premiered works by such American composers as Robert Starer and Paul Schoenfield. With violinist William Terwilliger he has recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Aaron Copland and performed them worldwide, receiving high praise from such publications as Strings, The Strad, and American Record Guide. In 2004 the Duo, along with Naumburg winners Andres Diaz, Erika Eckert, and the Ying Quartet, recorded chamber music by Lowell Liebermann. In addition to this work, Mr. Cooperstock is a founding member of Trio Contraste, which specializes in commissioning and performing contemporary music for piano, violin, and clarinet. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, he studied with Abbey Simon, David Bar-Illan, and Walter Hautzig, as well as with collaborative pianist Samuel Sanders. Dr. Cooperstock is a member of the faculty at North Carolina’s Brevard Music Center, and he chairs the keyboard department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Return to artists page |
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