Clarinettist AK Coope is frequently heard with the Vancouver and Victoria Symphonies, Turning Point Ensemble, Victoria’s Aventa Ensemble,  and the Vancouver New Music Ensemble, among others.  She has performed both nationally and internationally including recent concerts across Eastern Canada, New York City and in Bali, Indonesia, and closer to home, in the tunnels and concentrator mill of Britannia Mine. As a composer, she has worked with members of Vancouver’s dance and theatre communities and in 2006, her first full-length musical, How I Became Queen was premiered by Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre. AK holds degrees  from UBC and  Northwestern University in Chicago and is on faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music.