Winner of numerous awards including First Prize at the Halina Czerny-Stefanská International Competition in Poznan (Poland), First Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Piano de Vigo (Spain), and First Prize at Chopin Competition in Brest (France), Diana Cooper has been invited to perform in various venues and festivals in France and abroad, including the Nohant Chopin Festival, Festival Chopin àèParis, Salle Cortot, Polish Embassy in Paris, Ysaÿe Festival in Belgium, Palacio de Congresos in Huesca (Spain), Hrvatski dom Split in Croatia, Kielce Filharmonia in Poland, at Teatro Filarmónica de Oviedo.
In 2023 and 2024, she was selected to take part in the project Un été en France avec Gautier Capuçon, for which she performed solo and chamber music in several open-air concerts across different regions of France, including Corsica.
She has performed for the radio programme 'Générations Jeunes Interprètees' on France Musique and for the television programme 'Fauteuils d'orchestre' on France 5. In 2024 she was chosen to take part in a masterclass with Yuja Wang, filmed and produced by the BBC for the art series Arts in Motion.
Her activities have been enriched by solo appearances with orchestras including the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris in Schumann's concerto, performed in 2023 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and more recently with the Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Kaliskiej, in Poland, performing Chopin's first concerto under the baton of Maciej Kotarba.
Born in France to a British father and a French-Spanish mother, Diana is currently settled in London and has just graduated from an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, in Norma Fisher's class. Formerly, she studied in Paris at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, and the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky. Her main teachers over these years in Paris include Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Rena Shereshevskaya and Cédric Tiberghien.
Diana is generously supported by the Fondation de la Banque Populaire and the Kathleen Trust.
Following her pre-selection in 2021 for the prestigious Chopin Competition in Warsaw, she was invited the following summers by Philippe Giusiano to take part in masterclasses in Katowice as well as concerts at the Chopin Manor in Duszniki organised by the Chopin Foundation.
Diana has recently recorded her first CD, featuring works by Haydn, Chopin and Ravel.