An internationally recognized concert pianist, she has appeared as a recitalist and as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout the world.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and raised in Calgary, Coop studied with Alexandra Munn and Gladys Egbert as a child.
At the age of 18 she entered the University of Toronto where she studied piano with Anton Kuerti from 1968 to 1972 and earned an Artist Diploma in 1971 and a Bachelor of Music in 1972.
[2] Coop entered the graduate music program at the Peabody Conservatory in the Fall of 1973 where she studied piano with Leon Fleisher.
While at Peabody, she won the Baldwin Prize in the Maryland International Piano Competition in 1972 and made her professional debut as a concert pianist at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto in 1973.