Jacob Cooper enjoys collaborating with performers, poets, and directors, as well as with machines, environments, and questionable histories. Lauded as “richly talented” (The New York Times) and a “conceptually intrepid, sharp young composer” (Pitchfork), Jacob has fulfilled commissions for the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Eighth Blackbird, the Calder Quartet, singer Jodie Landau, cellist Ashley Bathgate, Ensemble Connect (formerly ACJW), The Living Earth Show, Mobius Percussion, and trombonist Matthew Wright. His music has also been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Carmina Slovenica choir, the JACK Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, the Argus Quartet, the Dither Quartet, the NOW Ensemble, vocalists Theo Bleckmann and Mellissa Hughes, and pianists Vicky Chow
