About
A recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including 1st Prize at the Halina Czerny-Stefanska International Piano Competition in Poznań (Poland), 1st Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano de Vigo (Spain), and 1st Prize at the Brest Chopin Competition (France), Diana Cooper has performed at an array of venues and festivals across Europe, including the Nohant Chopin Festival, the Festival Chopin à Paris (Bagatelle), the Salle Cortot, the Polish Embassy in Paris, the Festival International de Colmar, the Ysaye Festival in Belgium, Kings Place in London, the Royal Albert Hall, the Círculo de las Artes in Lugo, the Teatro Filarmónica de Oviedo, the Teatro Jovellanos in Gijón, the Kielce Filharmonia in Poland, Chopin’s manor in Duszniki, Chopin’s birthplace manor in Żelazowa Wola (concerts organized by the Chopin Institute), and the Hrvatski dom Split in Croatia.
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 performance career has 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.
Born in Tarbes to a Franco-Spanish mother and a British father, Diana began her piano studies with Jean-Paul Cristille. Her first solo recital dates back to the age of 9 and at 14 she performed with orchestra Mozart’s Concerto n° 21 in France and Spain.
She pursued her musical education with Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Rena Shereshevskaya, Pascal Amoyel, and Norma Fisher. 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 Thiberghien.
In addition, Diana has been a regular participant in the Oxford Piano Academy and Festival as well as the Académie Maurice Ravel (Saint Jean-de-Luz), for which she won the Rotary-Lions prize and the Ysaye Festival prize in Belgium.
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.
Following her pre-selection in 2021 for the prestigious Chopin Competition in Warsaw, she was invited the following summers by Philippe Giusiano to take part in masterclasses in Katowice as well as concerts at the Chopin Manor in Duszniki, organised by the Chopin Foundation.
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.
