![]() Coop recorded extensively several of her recordings were nominated for Juno awards. Earlier she created, with her husband, radio and festival producer George Laverock, the Skylark recording label. In 1989 she received a Killam Research Prize at the University of British Columbia. Active as an accompanist too, Coop played in recitals of lieder and art songs with Ingemar Korjus, Rosemarie Landry, Janet Stubbs, and Catherine Robbin she also performed chamber music with violinists Andrew Dawes, Martin Beaver, and others. 2 (Vancouver, 1989), and the world premiere recording of Malcolm Forsyth's Piano Concerto (SMCD 5124, 1993). Her premieres include Kristi Allik's Fragments (London, 1979), Stephen Chatman's Black and White Fantasy (Winnipeg, 1981), John Beckwith's Etudes (Vancouver, 1984), Jean Coulthard's Sonata No. Throughout her career she also played frequently on radio - including CBC, BBC, KRO (Holland), Polish Radio (Warsaw), NPR, and CJRT - and on television. Coop toured Asia in 1994, performing in Japan, China, and Hong Kong. She also played on numerous occasions in the USA (eg, with the Seattle and Oregon symphony orchestras) and in Canada with all major orchestras including the NACO, and the Edmonton, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Victoria, and Winnipeg symphony orchestras, and with such chamber ensembles as the Orford, Purcell, and Colorado string quartets and the York Winds. Concurrently with this commitment, she maintained an active concert career, appearing as recitalist or soloist in, among other places, New York, London, Washington, Moscow, Paris, Warsaw, Brussels, Budapest, Kiev, St. In 1979 she gave her London debut in Wigmore Hall.Ĭoop was Kuerti's teaching assistant in Toronto 1976-80, then she began teaching at the University of British Columbia, where as of 2003 she remained as professor of piano and chamber music. ![]() She was a member 1975-6 of the Harvard Summer School Chamber Players and in 1976 toured in New England with the NACO. Between 19 she appeared 10 times with the TS she also played with the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra in 1972 and with the Calgary Philharmonic in 1976. ![]() In 1977 she was a finalist in the Munich International Piano Competition (Bavarian State Radio). In 1975 she won the Washington International Competition, and also the only prize for piano performance awarded in the New York Concert Artists' Guild Competition. In the meantime, she made her debut at the St Lawrence Centre in 1973. She moved back to Toronto but, with the assistance of two Canada Council grants, continued to study with Fleisher until 1976. She studied 1972-3 with various teachers, including Peter Feuchtwanger, in London and 1973-4 with Leon Fleisher in Baltimore. Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (for study in Europe) in 1971, and the Baldwin Prize in the Maryland International Piano Competition in 1972. She won the CBC Talent Festival in 1970, the W.O. She continued her studies 1968-72 with Anton Kuerti in Toronto. She grew up in Calgary (from 1952) and studied there with Alexandra Munn and Gladys Egbert. Pianist, teacher, b Saint John, NB, Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1971, B MUS (Toronto) 1972, M MUS (Peabody Conservatory) 1974. in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Kansas State University.Jane (Austin) Coop. Jane holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as a Ph.D. Prior to that, she held executive engineering positions at IPLocks (acquired by Fortinet) and Borland. Before joining EMC, Jane served as vice president of Engineering for TIBCO Software, where she was responsible for Security Information and Event Management product portfolios. Jane joined Veritas from Dell EMC, where she was vice president of the Data Protection Software Group and general manager for Mozy Business Unit. ![]() She has more than 20 years of experience leading engineering organizations to build enterprise products/solutions in the areas of data protection, big data management and analytics, database security, application life cycle management, middleware, and network application monitoring. Jane is a strong technologist and leader and has excelled at building and nurturing strong teams. She joined Veritas in 2017 and led the Data Protection and Governance Engineering team through multiple significant product releases during her tenure in the role. In this role, Jane is responsible for leading a combined organization that includes IT, Facilities, Finance, Analytics, and Program Management functions. Jane Zhu serves as SVP, Corporate Operations. Jane Zhu Senior Vice President, Corporate Operations ![]()
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