Trevor J R Cooper

The guitar has become a passport to Trevor Cooper, and it travels with him wherever he goes.

In Spanish Vistas, he realized a life-long dream and made his orchestral debut performing the Concierto de Aranjuez with the Concordia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Danielle Lisboa.

Trevor recently toured western Canada and Norway with Norwegian guitarist Henry Reitan, giving concerts in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Gibson's Landing. He has performed recitals with the Guitar Societies of Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver and has recently given masterclasses at Mount Royal University, the University of British Columbia, and Concordia University of Edmonton.

Trevor shares a passion for adjudication, having adjudicated for the Toronto Kiwanis Festival, the Hamilton Music Festival, the International Music Festival and Competition, Red Deer Festival of the Performing Arts, Quill Plains Festival, and Grant MacEwan's Fall Festival.

He completed his Master's studies at the Universitaet Mozarteum in Salzburg Austria, studying under Eliot Fisk.

In 2015 Trevor was one of 14 internationally selected guitarists to study in the III Master de la Interpretación de la Guitarra Clásica at the Universidad de Alicante in Alicante, Spain. There he studied with Grammy award-winning artists David Russell, Manuel Barrueco (guitar), Paul O’Dette (lute/early music), Jose de Eusebio (conducting) as well as Paul Galbraith, Pepe Romero, Fabio Zanon and others. This followed travels to Seville, Spain, where he was invited to study with guitarist Francisco Bernier.

At 17 Trevor was accepted into the University of Toronto Faculty of Music Performance program. There he studied guitar with Dr. Jeffrey McFadden and Performance Practice with Dr. Kevin Komisaruk (Palliative Care/Keyboard). He gained local success and won the Guitar Trophy at the 2012 Greater Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival. He received national recognition with 1st Place in Guitar at the 2013 FCMF National Music Festival in Waterloo.

Born and raised in Edmonton, he started playing guitar at a young age studying locally with Michel Forestier.

He currently plays and owns guitars by Koukourigos Guitars (Thessaloniki, Greece) and Len Letourneau (Morinville, Alberta) with Knobloch strings.