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About Imogen

Imogen Cooper’s recent and future 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. This season her solo recitals include London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Philadelphia and the Klavierfest Ruhr in Germany. In Spring 2026 she will perform in China for the first time, playing solo recitals and Schubert’s Winterreise with Mark Padmore.

As a committed chamber musician Imogen performs regularly with Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel. Following a long collaboration with Wolfgang Holzmair in both concert and recording, her current Lieder partners include Ian Bostridge, Dame Sarah Connolly and Mark Padmore. Imogen’s recent solo recording for Chandos Records features music by Fauré, Liszt, Ravel and Respighi.

Imogen received a DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021. In 2015 she founded the Imogen Cooper Music Trust to support young pianists and give them time in an environment of peace and beauty.

Imogen is based in London

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Contact

For availability and general enquiries:

Alison Nethsingha

Alison Nethsingha

Senior Artist Manager

Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Jan 2025
Wigmore Hall, London
Solo recital BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major Op. 110 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Jan 2025
Bourgie Hall, Montreal
solo recital BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major Op. 110 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Feb 2025
Saffron Hall, UK
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major K595 Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon
Apr 2025
Chicago
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major K415 Music of the Baroque Jane Glover

Video

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 XXXII
    Credit: Chandos Records - March 2019
  • Chopin - Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 in F minor
    Credit: Chandos Records - May 2016
  • Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1
    Credit: With Bernard Haitink and the LSO 23 September 2015

Photos

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Sample Programmes

  • 2024/25 season:

    BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.30 in E major, Op.109 Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat major, Op.110 Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111 Chamber programmes with Henning Kraggerud (violin) and Adrian Brendel (cello) Lieder with Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Mark Padmore (tenor) Hugo Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch with Anna El-Khashem (soprano) and Johannes Kammler (baritone)

News

Press

  • Imogen Cooper performs Schubert

    Baden
    Mar 2024

    • She 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.

  • Imogen Cooper performs a solo programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Queen Elizabeth Hall
    Dec 2023

    • Cooper 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.

  • Imogen Cooper, Hennking Kraggerud, Adrian Brendel

    Queen Elizabeth Hall
    May 2022

    • …Cooper’s playing exuded the wisdom of decades of experience. Her touch was clear but never hard…

  • Imogen Cooper performs Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 with Jane Glover

    Cleveland
    Mar 2022

    • Imogen 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.

  • Imogen Cooper performs Mozart with Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Bournemouth
    Mar 2022

    • Alert to every nuance of phrasing, dynamic and tonal colour in the proposals exchanged between keyboard and orchestra, shared rapport was engagingly conversational throughout.

  • Imogen Cooper performs Beethoven Diabelli Variations

    London, Fidelio Cafe
    Nov 2020

    • So 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.

  • Imogen Cooper performs Schubert's last three Sonatas

    London, Wigmore Hall
    Oct 2019

    • There 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. ★★★★★

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