Join students from UC School of Music as they perform recitals for their final assessments of 2020.
- Marlene Cooper – Flute DMA Recital
- Friday 6 November, 5-6.30pm in the Recital Room, UC Arts City Location
This performance will feature works by Danzi, Meyer-Olbersleben, Fukushima, Debussy and Liebermann.
Marlene Verwey Cooper was born in Delareyville, rural South Africa and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Music from the University of Pretoria, a Masters in Music from the Carnegie Mellon University, USA and an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music in London.
Her teachers during these studies include Jeanne Baxtresser, Alberto Almarza, Paul-Edmund Davies and John Hinch. A scholarship from the Italian Consulate in South Africa enabled Marlene to study privately with Raffaele Trevisani in Milan, Italy.
She was the overall winner of the SAMRO International Scholarship competition as well as a prize winner in the International de Lorenzo Flute competition, the Sir James Galway Masterclass in 2009 in Switzerland and was a Flutist with the Southbank Sinfonia in London.
Marlene commissioned works for flute and piano by contemporary South African composers Hendrik Hofmeyr and Stefans Grové and was a member of the World Youth Orchestra, performing at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York, as well as Palestine and Israel.
Marlene was named the 2012 Rising Star by Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway in Weggis, Switzerland and currently resides in Christchurch with her husband and three children, studying towards a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Canterbury as a student of Uwe Grodd.
