CONSTANCE COOPER
CONSTANCE COOPER does not like a day to go by without music improvisation, which, however, came her way late. She spent the first half of her life as a microtonal composer, freelance classical pianist, and singer of Gregorian chant, Renaissance works. and contemporary works, thirty written for her. While completing her PhD in composition at Princeton University, she wrote microtonal pieces that include improvisation. One of these won the Gustav Mahler Prize (Klagenfurt, Austria). Another was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and recorded live in concert for the Cadence/Quixotic label.
She improvises weekly via internet with her quartet Nice Guys Without Borders, as the Cooper Kinzer Duo, and as a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. She will improvise live this spring and summer in Memmingen, Ljubljana, and Zagreb as well as joining The Noisy Women in Wales and at Leigh on Sea, UK. She lives in New York City and Ljubljana.
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