Tuesday 12 May 2.00 pm
Diana Cooper (piano)
Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas
K9 in D minor / K96 in D major / K141 in D minor
Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses Op 54 (11')
Granados: Allegro de concierto Op 46 (8')
Chopin: Mazurkas Op. 59 (11')
1 in A minor / 2 in A flat major / 3 in F sharp minor
Chopin: Barcarolle Op 60 (9')
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie Op 61 (13')
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Winner of numerous awards, including 1st Prize at the Samson François International Piano Competition (France – 2025), 1st Prize at the Halina Czerny-Stefanska International Piano Competition in Poznan (Poland – 2022), 1st Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano de Vigo (Spain – 2022), and 1st Prize at the Brest Chopin Competition (France – 2017), Diana Cooper was selected to participate in the 19th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in October 2025, chosen from 84 pianists out of 642 applicants. She was invited to perform solo on the Générations Jeunes Interprètes program on France Musique, as well as with violinist Yevgeny Kutik on the BBC Radio 3 program In Tune. Additionally, she performed as part of a trio on the television program Fauteuils d'orchestre, filmed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and broadcast on France 5 in 2024. That same year, she was selected to participate in a masterclass with Yuja Wang, which was filmed and produced by the BBC for the series Arts in Motion.
Her performances have been further enriched by solo appearances with several orchestras, including the Orchestre Appassionato, conducted by Mathieu Herzog, in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 at the Seine Musicale in Paris; the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris, led by Félix Benati, in Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris; and the Grammy Award-winning Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Kaliskiej, conducted by Maciej Kotarba, in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 at Kalisz's Philharmonic Hall in Poland. Diana has recently recorded her first CD, featuring works by Haydn, Chopin and Ravel, after winning 1st Prize in the Concours d'aide aux Jeunes Artistes organised by the Festival du Vexin.
Born in Tarbes to a Franco-Spanish mother and a British father, Diana began her piano studies with Jean-Paul Cristille. She pursued her musical education with Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Rena Shereshevskaya, Pascal Amoyel, Norma Fisher, and Philippe Giusiano. A graduate of both the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) and the Royal College of Music in London with a second Artist Diploma, Diana also studied at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris and the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky where she honed her skills under the guidance of Cédric Tiberghien. Diana is an Artist awardee of the Fondation de la Banque Populaire and the Fondation Safran in France, as well as the Kirckman Concert Society in the UK.
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