GARY COOPER

Conductor

Harpsichord

Forte-Piano

Gary Cooper is now established as one of the foremost ambassadors of the harpsichord and fortepiano - in particular, as an interpreter of Bach’s & Mozart’s keyboard music – and as a director of period performance in concert, and in opera. Along with performances worldwide, he has made many recordings for TV, radio and CD, including an award-winning CD of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.

Gary’s diverse recital programmes range from the music of the Elizabethan Virginalists to the harpsichord music of Bach and Scarlatti, from Mozart’s Piano Sonatas to the music of Dussek, Clementi, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Adding to an extensive discography, solo recording projects with Channel Classics range from Bach’s complete Keyboard Concerti and the Goldberg Variations, to Mozart's and Haydn’s Piano Variations and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations & late Bagatelles, all on original keyboards of the period. He has recorded Schubert's Die Winterreise for Linn Records with baritone, Peter Harvey, and Haydn Symphonies with ensemble Arion for the Canadian label Early~Music.Com, and, most recently for Channel Classics, of Haydn : Late Piano Works – “Recommended without reservations!” (SA-CD.net)

The Duo partnership of Gary Cooper and Rachel Podger has taken them worldwide. Their recordings, with Channel Classics, of Mozart’s Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin has received countless awards and accolades, including multiple Diapason d’Or awards and Gramophone Editor’s Choices, and hailed as ‘benchmark’ recordings. The Duo‘s repertoire includes music from Bach and Biber to Mozart and Beethoven. Their partnership also extends to orchestral projects, including curating a programme at London’s Wigmore Hall of Haydn symphonies, violin and keyboard concerti. Other future plans include performances of all the Bach & Mozart Concerti.

Gary is also an established conductor, having worked with many ensembles. Recent operas include Handel’s Alcina, Orlando and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He directs the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, recently to great acclaim at the 2007 Potsdam Festival, where he returns in 2009; also the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Hanover Band, and performs regularly in North America where he directs the leading Canadian period instrument ensemble, Arion, in Montreal.

Gary is ‘Artist in Residence’ of the exciting Belgian period instrument ensemble, B’Rock, directing orchestral and opera productions, recordings, and is guest artistic director of a new festival in Bruges. Gary appears at major festivals such as the Flanders Festival, the Bruges, Utrecht, Potsdam and Innsbruck Early Music Festivals and throughout the UK.

Gary currently teaches harpsichord & fortepiano at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, is visiting professor of fortepiano at the Royal College of Music and regularly visits other conservatoires such as McGill University in Montreal.

“something of a genius” (The Times) “music-making rarely comes as impressive as this” (The Sunday Times)

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Date : April 2009