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Imogen Cooper

A peerless interpreter of Classical and Romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is an international soloist, distinguished accompanist and committed chamber musician. She’s performing in a Schubertiade at the London Piano Festival at Kings Place on 7 October, an evening of piano duets with Katya Apekisheva, Charles Owen and Dominic Degavino, all three of whom have been taught by Cooper in the past.

At the age of three I was taken to Covent Garden to see VERDI’s , which was a slightly photographer was there and there’s a photo in the family album of me with big round cheeks, wearing a polka-dot taffeta dress, standing smiling on the steps up to the Crush Bar.

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