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, Monaco, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Latvia, Peru, Chile, and Panama. A frequent media guest, he has appeared on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," WFMT Chicago's "Dame Myra Hess Concerts Series," WQXR New York's "McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase," and on Minnesota Public Radio, Radio France, and the Australian and British Broadcasting Corporations. An advocate for new music, he 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 and The Strad. Mr. Cooperstock was a prizewinner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the New Orleans International Piano Competition, and the U. S. Information Agency's Artistic Ambassador Auditions. 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. Formerly professor of piano at the University of Oklahoma, he is currently a member of the faculties at North Carolina's Brevard Music Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

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