South Carolina Music Teachers Association
Guest Artist
Andrew Cooperstock
Pianist Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout six continents and in most of the 50 states including performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the United Nations. He has been featured in recitals and concerto appearances at the Chautauqua, Brevard, and Round Top music festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and Hong Kong’s Hell Hot! New Music Festival, in such international locales as London, Paris, Geneva, Beijing, Seoul, Accra, Kiev, Vladivostok, Canberra, Quito and Lima, and on National Public Radio, Radio France, and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
An advocate for U.S. music, Cooperstock has premiered works by composers Lowell Liebermann, John Fitz Rogers, Rob Paterson, and Aaron Copland, and he participated in commissioning works by Eric Stern, Robert Starer, Dan Welcher, and Meira Warshauer. His recording of Leonard Bernstein’s complete piano works (Bridge and Deutsche Grammophon) was lauded by Gramophone as “winning” and “brilliant.”
A sought-after chamber musician, Cooperstock has performed with the Takács Quartet, the Ying Quartet, the Dorian Quintet, violinist James Buswell, violist Roberto Diaz, cellists Andres Diaz and András Fejer, hornist Eli Epstein, pianist Paul Schoenfield, and singers Marin Mazzie and Ashley Brown, and he is a member of the Colorado Chamber Players. With violinist William Terwilliger, Cooperstock is a founding member of Opus Two (www.opustwo.org), an award-winning duo internationally recognized for its “divine phrases, impelling rhythm, elastic ensemble and stunning sounds” as well as its commitment to expanding the violin-piano duo repertoire. Winners of the United States Information Agency’s Artistic Ambassador Auditions, Opus Two has made extensive tours of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Opus Two has also 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). American Record Guide calls their 2025 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.” https://bridgerecords.com/products/9605
Cooperstock’s recent articles have appeared in Piano Magazine, the MTNA e-Journal, and Piano Inspires Kids, and he has presented webinars for Music Teachers National Association and the Frances Clark Center, which awarded him the 2025 Outstanding Service Award.
Prize-winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, among others, Cooperstock has since served as juror for these competitions in addition to the Music Teachers National Association national competitions, the Iowa International Piano Competition, the Liszt-Garrison International Competition, and China’s Giant Cup Art Talent Competition, among many others.
Cooperstock attended fifth through twelfth grade in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he studied piano with Jack Tait and Eugene Barban, participated in the South Carolina Governor’s School at the College of Charleston for two summers, and graduated from Northwestern High School. He subsequently earned music degrees from The Juilliard School and the Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, where he studied with Abbey Simon, David Bar-Illan, Walter Hautzig, and Samuel Sanders. A Steinway artist, Cooperstock was recently inducted into the Steinway Piano Music Teachers Hall of Fame. A dedicated teacher, he has served as faculty member at Adamant Music School (Vermont), Brevard Music Center (North Carolina), Round Top Festival-Institute (Texas), and the University of Oklahoma, and as Program Director of the Saarburg International Music Festival (Germany). Currently he is 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, and his former students hold positions at important music schools across the United States, in Europe, and Asia. In Spring 2026 Cooperstock served as Resident Fellow at the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, France.