Claire Cooper
Claire Cooper studied with John Winther at the Canberra School of Music and later at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She spent five years as répétiteur and accompanist at the Victorian College of the Arts and joined the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne as an accompanist.
Claire worked extensively in Melbourne with major music organisations and festivals, and had an extensive and wide-ranging repertoire.
She suffered an acquired brain injury after being hit by a car in 2013 while cycling on the Upfield bike path in Melbourne, which, sadly, has put an end to her musical career. She has spent two years largely in and out of Epworth’s rehabilitation clinic. Her outlook is positive as she slowly rebuilds her life in country Victoria.
Move Records wishes her well in her expected many years of gradual recovery.
Claire Cooper is featured on the following titles
Below: Music for Low Flutes
This charming and rare recording features predominantly commissioned chamber music for low flutes, written to showcase their lyrical and colourful tonal qualities and to expand a small yet growing repertoire.
A Shropshire Lad
Baritone Blake Fischer and pianist Claire Cooper, winners of the 1998 Song Recital Award, present English and American folk, traditional and art songs by Butterworth, Copland, Finzi and Britten.
ABC of American Art Song
Melanie Duncan blitzed the 1999 Mietta Song Recital Award, taking the Popular Choice award and the Musical Partnership with accompanist Claire Cooper as well as the Award itself. This is her recital of twentieth-century American art song.
Unearthly Music: Music by Australian Women Composers
A tribute to twentieth-century Australian women composers, this flute and piano recital gathers lesser-known chamber works in the hope that listeners, performers and programmers will bring the music to a wider audience.