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On avait manqué le récital de Diana Cooper au Festival de Colmar en juillet dernier, puis lors de l’après-midi marathon des Pianissimes en octobre à la salle Cortot. Les échos plus que positifs de ces deux apparitions nous avaient décidé à ne surtout pas rater son passage dans la saison Jeunes Talents. Bien nous en a pris ! Cette jeune artiste (née en 1997) issue du CNSMDP (où elle a travaillé avec Jean-François Heisser et Marie-Josèphe Jude), puis passée par la classe de Rena Shereshevskaya à l’Ecole Normale et par l’Académie Jaroussky où elle a profité des conseils de Cédric Tiberghien, mérite d’être suivie de très près. Et promet de faire parler d’elle !

Alain Cochard

Concertclassic.com

Diana Cooper at Bechstein Hall – ‘freedom and flexibility of rare artistry’ – ‘ravishing sounds of refined delicacy mingled with robust declamations’. This is what I jotted down as she recreated the Mazurka op 30 n. 3 that opened this extraordinary Chopin Recital.She shared with us in just a few minutes a tone poem with a kaleidoscope of colours and emotions.

Christopher Axworthy

Bechstein Hall, London - 25/03/25

Just two works by Chopin were enough to show us why she was so admired in Warsaw. A scrupulous attention to what Chopin wrote in the score, shorn of tradition, allowing Chopin’s genius to speak for itself. The first scherzo, so often used as a showpiece for mindless virtuosi, was given by Diana such burning intensity that the Christmas Carol, Chopin quotes in the central episode, became a moment of inspiration that Diana played with disarming simplicity and whispered beauty .
Christopher Axworthy

Steinway Hall, London - 25/04/26

Diana Cooper in Perivale ‘A great artist flying high on wings of song with refined artistry and aristocratic musicianship’

Winner takes all is not the case here as we heard today from Diana who has a very special quality which is called artistry. Nowhere more than in her performances of Chopin where her aristocratic control and musicianship were allied to delving deep into the scores to find the very soul of Chopin. A soul that is not all delicacy and beauty as a certain Chopin tradition would have us believe, but at times heroic and exciting, profound and overwhelming.
An encore of Chopin’s teasingly brilliant Waltz op 42 was played to the manner born. Some things cannot be taught but are recreations of an artist blessed by the Gods.

Christopher Axworthy

St Mary's Perivale - 13/05/26