Jacob Cooper's diverse compositions have earned him a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Morton Gould Award from ASCAP, and a CAP grant from the American Music Center. He has held residences at the Banff Centre for the Arts and twice at the Atlantic Center for the Arts--as a composer and most recently as a sound/video artist--and this winter he will be in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He has also attended the Bang on a Can Summer Institute and the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.
Jacob Cooper's diverse compositions have earned him a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Morton Gould Award from ASCAP, and a CAP grant from the American Music Center. He has held residences at the Banff Centre for the Arts and twice at the Atlantic Center for the Arts--as a composer and most recently as a sound/video artist--and this winter he will be in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He has also attended the Bang on a Can Summer Institute and the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.
Jacob’s music has been performed by several ensembles across the continent, including the JACK Quartet (New York), Bent Frequency (Atlanta), the New Music Collective (Charleston), Ensemble Symposium (Vancouver), the NOW Ensemble (New York), the Y Trio (New York), the Juventas Ensemble (Boston), the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Minnesota Orchestra. His work has appeared at the Wordless Music concert series at the Miller Theater in New York, at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, and on the popular videoblog Rocketboom.
In 2009, Jacob provided musical direction with "emotional punch" (Village Voice) for Immediate Medium’s Chuck Chuck Chuck at the Collapsable Hole in Brooklyn. Timberbrit, Jacob’s opera about a fictional reunion between Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and ran this November at the Incubator Arts Project (formerly the Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Jacob has also recently experimented with visual media, and this past September his video Commencer Une Autre Mort was shortlisted for the YouTube / Guggenheim Biennial.
A doctoral candidate in music composition at the Yale School of Music, Jacob is also dedicated to teaching and scholarship. He has taught composition, music theory, and music technology classes at Yale College, and he currently writes program notes for subscription series concerts at Carnegie Hall.