Andrew Cooperstock

Pianist Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout Europe, Australia, Latin America, and in most of the fifty states. In addition to performances at New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill concert halls, and at the United Nations, he has been featured in recitals and concerto appearances at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Round Top international music festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and in such global centers as Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Baltimore, London, Hamburg, Nice, the Hague, Riga, Canberra, Lima, Kiev, Beijing, Seoul, Sapporo, and Vladivostok. He has performed 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, Dr. Cooperstock has premiered works by such American composers as Robert Starer and Aaron Copland. With violinist William Terwilliger, as Opus Two, he has recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Copland and performed them worldwide. The award-winning Opus Two has been internationally recognized for its “divine phrases, impelling rhythm, elastic ensemble and stunning sounds,” as well as its commitment to expanding the violin – piano duo repertoire. The duo has appeared throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia, and it made its Asian debut in 2006 with performances across China, Korea, Japan, and the Russian Far East. With cellist Andres Diaz, Opus Two has also recorded chamber music by Lowell Liebermann (Albany Records) and Paul Schoenfield (Azica Records). Dr. Cooperstock has also performed with the Takács and Ying Quartets, and he is a founding member of Trio Contraste, which specializes in commissioning and performing contemporary music for piano, violin, and clarinet. He has served as juror for the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Music Teachers National Association national competitions, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Competition, among others. 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.