AK Coope

IN-PERSON & ONLINE LESSONS

AK Coope performs with an eclectic array of ensembles, including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and Vancouver New Music Ensemble, among others, and has played concerts across the globe. She is a long-time member of the award-winning contemporary chamber music ensemble, Standing Wave, and of Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble. AK is also a founding member of the Ad Mare Wind Quintet with whom she performs many educational concerts in BC Schools every year.

She has made a wide variety of recordings from Disney film scores to Indie Rock albums and everything in between. Her recent album 20th C Remix with Standing Wave, was nominated for a Juno Award. On the video front, she recently contributed a solo work, Leaning, to the Canadian Music Centre BC Chapter’s Unaccompanied video and digital album series and, on bass clarinet, is thrilled to have released Abstraction: part of Turning Point Ensemble’s 1+1+1 Video Project.

AK holds a BMus from UBC and an MMus from Northwestern University, Chicago, and counts Robert Marcellus, Clark Brody and Wes Foster as among her most influential teachers. She is a respected adjudicator, clinician, and chamber music coach, and is very proud of her award-winning students.