Matt Cooper - Piano & Accordion

Ages 14 and older

Matt Cooper is a Professor Emeritus of Music at Eastern Oregon University, where he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Faculty award, retiring after a 31-year college teaching career. He is also a Past President of Oregon Music Teachers Association. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon. Dr. Cooper has done extensive study in the Taubman approach to piano with senior faculty at the Golandsky Institute and in summer symposia at

Princeton University, and has studied Tango music in Buenos Aires. 

He is the author of a book on Duke Ellington’s piano styles and has been a keynote speaker and recitalist at conferences in Amsterdam, in England, and at Reed College. Dr. Cooper has adjudicated many piano festivals and competitions throughout the Northwest, including the MTNA Performance Competitions in Washington and Montana, the Boise Sonatina Festival, and many others. He has performed numerous solo recitals, chamber recitals, and concerto appearances throughout the Northwest as well as in the Midwest U.S. and in the Russian Far East. He has recorded four jazz and classical CDs and has been a guest artist at the International Festival of Creative Pianists, the San Juan College (New Mexico) Jazz Festival, Piano Duet Festival-by-

the-Sea, and others. 

He is in frequent demand throughout the Northwest as a performer, adjudicator, clinician, and presenter, and he is known locally as the accompanist of choice for nationally-known jazz artists such as Rob Scheps, Kathy

Kosins, and Dmitri Matheny.

Piano Rates

1 hour : Member $40 / Non-Member $50

Accordion Rates

1 hour : Member $28 / Non-Member $35