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About Imogen

Imogen Cooper’s recent and future concerto performances include the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, the Hallé Orchestra with Sir Mark Elder and The Cleveland Orchestra with Dame Jane Glover. This season her solo recitals include London, Dublin and Montreal.

Imogen has a widespread international career and has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival and NHK Symphony orchestras. She has played at the BBC Proms and with all the major British orchestras, including particularly close relationships with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia.

As a committed chamber musician Imogen performs regularly with Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel. Her lieder partners include Ian Bostridge, Dame Sarah Connolly and Mark Padmore. Imogen’s most recent solo recordings have been for Chandos Records.

Imogen received a DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021. The Imogen Cooper Music Trust was founded in 2015, to support young pianists at the cusp of their careers and give them time in an environment of peace and beauty.

Imogen is based in London

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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

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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
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Imogen Cooper performs Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major K503
Credit: Berlin Philharmonic
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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

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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)

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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.
  - Badener Tagblatt
  - 18 March 2024