Jacob Cooper (composer)
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Jacob Cooper | |
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Birth name | Jacob Mauney Cooper |
Genres | educator |
Years active | 2005–present |
Labels | Nonesuch Records |
Website | www |
Jacob Mauney Cooper is an American composer living in
Biography
After attending
Cooper's national awards include a Music Alive Residency Award from New Music USA,[6] a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[7] and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP.[8] He was also the winner of the 2011 Carsblad Music Festival Composers’ Competition[9] and has been hailed by the New York Times as "richly talented"[10] and by The New Yorker as a "maverick song composer."[11]
Cooper is an associate professor at West Chester University[12] and previously served on the faculty at Amherst College.[13]
Works
Cooper's largest projects include Silver Threads, a song cycle for voice and electronic track released by Nonesuch Records,[14] and Ripple the Sky, a work for voice and processed string octet commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.[15] These works highlight Cooper's focus on slow development and the stretching of musical time.[16] Many of Cooper's compositions involve live processing and electronics, and his interest in the digital realm extends to visual media: his video series Triptych was screened at the 2012 MATA Festival,[17] and his piece Commencer une autre mort was shortlisted for the Guggenheim exhibit YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video (2010).[18]
Compositions and Projects
Opera and Vocal-Theater
- Threnos (for the Throat) (2017–20) for processed women's choir with electronic track
- Timberbrit (2008, revised 2010) for male vocalist, female vocalist, guitar, keyboard, drumset, and laptop
Orchestral / large ensemble
- Sanctus (2015) for orchestra and SATB choir
- Serenade (2013) for 2 vocalists and 16 instrumentalists
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa (2009) for string orchestra and 4 amplified voices
- Odradek (2006) for full orchestra
Chamber
- Terrain (2020) for 2 vocalists and cello
- Air I and Air II (2016) for percussion quartet
- Ripple the Sky (2016) for voice and string octet
- Pasturing I and Pasturing II (2014) for guitar and percussion / drum set
- Cast (2014) for chamber ensemble
- Agitated, stumbling, like an endless run-on sentence (2011) for cl, bsn, tpt, tbn, perc, vln, db
- bad black bottom kind (2011, rev. 2013) for string quartet
- Cello Octet (2010)
Solo (and solo with electronic track / laptop)
- Three pieces for Trombone and Trombone Track (2019)
- Expiation (2018) for voice with electronic track
- Ley Line (2016) for solo cello
- Silver Threads (2011–13) song cycle for voice with electronic track
- La Plus Que Plus Que Lente (2013) for piano with laptop
- Arches (2012) for cello with laptop
- Clifton Gates (2011) for piano with laptop
- Alter Ad Alterum (2011) for accordion with laptop
- Not Just Another Piece for Solo Bass Drum (2005)
Video
- Triptych:
- Commencer une autre mort (2010)
- Black or White (2012)
- Alla stagion dei fior (2012)
Recordings
Full albums
- Terrain (New Amsterdam Records, 2020)[19]
- Silver Threads (Nonesuch Records, 2014) with Mellissa Hughes, soprano[20]
Featured On
- The String Orchestra of Brooklyn's afterimage (Furious Artisans, 2020), Stabat Mater Dolorosa[21]
- Ashley Bathgate's Ash (New Amsterdam Records, 2019), Ley Line[22]
- Eighth Blackbird's Hand Eye (Cedille Records, 2016), Cast[23]
- The Living Earth Show's Dance Music (New Amsterdam Records, 2016), Pasturing II[24]
- Vicky Chow's A O R T A (New Amsterdam Records, 2016), Clifton Gates[25]
- Kathleen Supové's The Debussy Effect (New Focus Recordings, 2016), La plus que plus que lente[26]
References
- ^ "About". 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
- ^ "American Music Series: Jacob Cooper". Yale University Library. Yale University. June 16, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Timberbrit, opera by Jacob Cooper '10MMA, at Incubator Arts Project". Yale School of Music. Yale University. November 8, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Sleeping Giant Composers Collection receives Music Alive residency". Yale School of Music. Yale University. June 14, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Music by Jacob Cooper featured in Nov. 7 recital". Yale School of Music. Yale University. October 22, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "2013 Music Alive Residency Awardees". New Music USA. June 14, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "The Charles Ives Awards". Arts and Letters. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "The ASCAP Foundation Names Recipients of the 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards". ASCAP. April 12, 2007. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Carlsbad Music Festival 2011, Sept. 23-25 / Festival Moves to Village of Carlsbad / Composers Competition Winner Announced" (PDF). Carlsbad Music Festival. April 12, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Corey Dargel and Jacob Cooper". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Unraveling: New Songs by Corey Dargel and Jacob Cooper". The New Yorker. January 7, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Music Theory, History, and Composition : Faculty - West Chester University". www.wcupa.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ^ "Pop-Star Tragedy". Amherst Magazine. Amherst College. Spring 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Nonesuch Releases Jacob Cooper's Label Debut, "Silver Threads," Featuring Soprano Mellissa Hughes, April 29". Nonesuch. Nonesuch Records. March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC'S 2015/16 GREEN UMBRELLA SERIES OFFERS A WEALTH OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FEATURING EIGHT LA PHIL COMMISSIONS, SEVEN WORLD PREMIERES, THREE U.S. PREMIERES, AND FIVE WEST ..." LA Phil. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ^ "Jacob Cooper Finds Grace in Diaphanous Slow Motion". Q2 Music. WQXR. April 28, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "April 20: Signs and Signals". MATA Festival. April 20, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "YouTube Play: Introducing the Shortlist". Guggenheim. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. September 20, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "New Amsterdam Records - Albums". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ^ "Jacob Cooper's Nonesuch Records Debut, "Silver Threads," Featuring Soprano Mellissa Hughes, Out Now - Nonesuch Records". Nonesuch Records Official Website. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
- ^ Staff Writer (2020-03-09). "String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage". Furious Artisans. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "New Amsterdam Records - Albums". New Amsterdam Records. January 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "Hand Eye | Classical Music". Cedille Records. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "New Amsterdam Records - Albums". New Amsterdam Records. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "New Amsterdam Records - Albums". New Amsterdam Records. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "Kathleen Supové: The Debussy Effect | Catalogue". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 2020-04-10.