Jane Coop is a preeminent concert pianist, mentor and educator whose 40-year international career includes four Juno award nominations and the founding of the Skylark Music recording label, which serves West Coast, Canadian and international composers.

By the age of 20, Coop had already won such prestigious contests as the CBC National Young Performer Competition and the Maryland International Piano Competition, launching her career as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and recording artist.

Coop has performed around the globe with some of the world’s finest orchestras. She has played as a solo recitalist in the most prestigious musical venues in the world including Wigmore Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York.

As a distinguished University of British Columbia professor of piano and chamber music, she is an inspirational force for her students. She has also given master classes at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Shanghai and Beijing Conservatories, and the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools.

Her discography includes seven concertos and the great masterworks of, among others, Haydn and Mozart. With Maestro Mario Bernardi, she recorded two collections of concertos and with violinist Andrew Dawes she made landmark chamber recordings of Beethoven’s piano and violin sonatas.

Coop’s performances were lauded by the New York Times for having “not only technical prowess but intellectual perception and telling interpretive instincts.”

Coop has shared her talents in every region of the province and in smaller communities through her classes and performances.