ImogenCooper
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About Imogen
Imogen Cooper’s recent concerto performances include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, Hallé Orchestra with Sir Mark Elder and The Cleveland and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras with Dame Jane Glover.
In recognition of Imogen’s long and distinguished association with the Wigmore Hall, she was awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal in January 2026.Her final public concert will take place there in February 2027, when she performs Schubert’s Winterreise with baritone Henk Neven. Following her long collaboration with Wolfgang Holzmair in concert and recording, her current Lieder partners also include Ian Bostridge, Dame Sarah Connolly and Mark Padmore.
Recent and forthcoming solo recitals include London, Madrid, Vienna, Amsterdam, Philadelphia and the Klavierfest Ruhr in Germany. A committed chamber musician, Imogen performs regularly with Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel. They, together with other longstanding musical collaborators, will join her for a celebratory concert ‘Imogen Cooper – A Life in Music’ at the Bath Mozartfest 2026.
Imogen’s most recent recording for Chandos Records, of Beethoven’s last three sonatas, was released in early 2026. She was appointed DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021. In 2015 she founded the Imogen Cooper Music Trust to support young pianists, providing them with time in an environment of peace and beauty.
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Season Highlights
Video
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Imogen Cooper performs 70th Birthday Concert at Wigmore Hall
Though her repertoire has been expanding in some unpredictable directions over recent seasons, the renowned pianist has selected for this celebratory event Schubert’s last three sonatas – music that has been central to her highly considered art over many years, and her performances of which have been universally admired. Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in C minor D958 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in A D959 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in B flat D960 Credit: Wigmore Hall
Imogen Cooper performs Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major K503
Credit: Berlin Philharmonic
Audio
- Manuel de Falla Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour 'Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy' (Chandos)Credit: Chandos Records - Sept 2019
- Beethoven - Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, Variazione XXXIICredit: Chandos Records - March 2019
- Chopin - Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 in F minorCredit: Chandos Records - May 2016
- Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1Credit: With Bernard Haitink and the LSO 23 September 2015
News
Press
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert in her final solo recital at Wigmore Hall
Wigmore HallJan 2026The innocent dialogue between treble and bass in the first piece of the second set seemed never-ending, but in a good way, because Cooper sustained the trickling accompaniment of the dialogue so perfectly. You wanted it to go on forever.
- The Telegraph
- 19 January 2026
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert
BadenMar 2024She is a miracle: you simply have to put it that way. The English pianist combines excellent taste, refinement and elegance in her playing. When she sits at the piano, she is a completely unaffected musician.
- Badener Tagblatt
- 18 March 2024
Imogen Cooper performs a solo programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth HallDec 2023Cooper was wonderfully responsive to the way Bartók’s pieces [Bagatelles] veer between jaunty sarcasm and a yearning, other-worldly quality... I appreciated the way she wrapped the entire cycle in a special, intimate colour.
- Telegraph
- 01 December 2023
Imogen Cooper, Hennking Kraggerud, Adrian Brendel
Queen Elizabeth HallMay 2022…Cooper’s playing exuded the wisdom of decades of experience. Her touch was clear but never hard…
- Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph
- 27 May 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 with Jane Glover
ClevelandMar 2022Imogen Cooper is an outstanding pianist…Her tone was clearly projected without exaggeration, and she sorted textures to give her solos an irresistible flow… It was an ideal performance, one that speaks to the long history of collaboration between Cooper and Glover, and one hopes to see Cooper visiting Cleveland more regularly in the future.
- Mark S. Jordan, Seen and Heard International
- 26 March 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Mozart with Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
BournemouthMar 2022Alert to every nuance of phrasing, dynamic and tonal colour in the proposals exchanged between keyboard and orchestra, shared rapport was engagingly conversational throughout.
- Ian Julier, The Arts Desk
- 07 March 2022
Imogen Cooper performs Beethoven Diabelli Variations
London, Fidelio CafeNov 2020So to Imogen Cooper’s marathon labour of... This was Beethoven at his wildest, most unpredictable – it felt mostly fierce at close quarters - and often improvisatory, at least in the earlier variations and, of course, the Bachian arietta-like beauties of Variation 31’s C minor Largo.
- David Nice, The Arts Desk
- 05 November 2020
Imogen Cooper performs Schubert's last three Sonatas
London, Wigmore HallOct 2019There is perfection in the way that profound sadness is finally transcended by a shift into heavenly major-key light [in D960], and it needs equal perfection, anchoring and inwardness in the playing... Cooper achieved those qualities at the most profound level. ★★★★★
- David Nice, The Arts Desk
- 23 October 2019
