Andrew Cooperstock
Pianist Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout six continents and in most of the fifty states, including performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the United Nations; at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Round Top music festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and Hong Kong’s Hell Hot! New Music Festival, and on National Public Radio, Radio France, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. With violinist William Terwilliger, as Opus Two, he has recorded a series of critically acclaimed single-composer discs of American music by Aaron Copland, Paul Schoenfield, and George Gershwin, among others (for Naxos, Azica, and Bridge), and his recording Leonard Bernstein: Complete Solo Works for Piano (Bridge and Deutsche Grammophon) was lauded by Gramophone as “winning” and “brilliant.” American Record Guide calls his newest recording—Opus Two Celebrates Stephen Sondheim: New Chamber Music Arrangements—“delicate and beautiful.” And The JW Vibe praises the recording’s “exquisite joy and fluid yet often appropriately quirky and whimsical soloing and duetting” as well as “Cooperstock’s charming, high fallutin’ piano solo of ‘Now You Know’ from Merrily We Roll Along. A Steinway artist, Dr. Cooperstock was recently inducted into the Steinway Piano Music Teachers Hall of Fame. Dr. Cooperstock has served as Program Director of the Saarburg International Music Festival (Germany), faculty member at Adamant Music School, Brevard Music Center, and Round Top Festival-Institute, and he is currently Director of Global Seminar: Chamber Music France and Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he received the 2020 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Award in Teaching and Pedagogy. Additionally, he is past president of Colorado State Music Teachers Association and active with the Frances Clark Center, receiving the 2025 Outstanding Service Award. In Spring 2026 he will serve as a Resident Fellow at the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, France. Dr. Cooperstock is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Peabody and Cincinnati Conservatories.