Julie Cooper   
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Julie Cooper‘s music is broadcast extensively on
screen for Film, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5 and all
visual media and advertising worldwide. She has
scored multiple cinematic orchestral and chamber
albums for television drama, wildlife documentaries
and film, along with numerous drama commissions
for theatre, BBC Radio Drama and the concert
platform. Her album ‘Haunted By The Secret’ on
Universal’s Chappell Noir label, won Best Score
Production Music Track in The Production Music
Awards with her track ‘Game Of Trust’.
Julie’s debut album for Signum Records,
‘CONTINUUM’, released February 2022, was
written during the year of the coronavirus
lockdowns as a musical diary depicting its effect
on our lives. The title track features a narrative
written and recorded for the album by acclaimed
actor Adjoa Andoh, evoking the emotional journey
of the pandemic. Conducted by Jessica Cottis,
produced by Jonathan Allen, it features Grace
Davidson, Clio Gould, Elena Urioste, Nicholas
McCarthy, Justin Pearson and the Oculus
Ensemble. The album reached No.1 in the
iTunes Classical Album Top 40 Chart, No.3 in the
Official Specialist Classical Chart and was Scala
Radio’s Album of The Week.
From the ‘OCULUS’ album, the single ‘ASCENSIO’
written for and recorded by Rebeca Omordia,
received its’ UK premiere performance by Rebeca
at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2022 as part
of the Steinway Concert Series in partnership
with the Donne Foundation celebrating Women
Composers. Julie performed with the Her
Ensemble ‘White and Silver’ from her EMI album ‘Human Stories’. Her first concert commission
‘SEASONS’ for the distinguished percussionist
Dame Evelyn Glennie, premiered at Chichester
Cathedral with a stage band including the late
Barbara Thompson and Jon Hiseman. The London
premiere was at the Royal Albert Hall with Danish
percussionists The Safri Duo and later there with
Oliver Cox and the City of London Philharmonic.
Further premieres of concert works include
St.Martin-in-the-Fields, St.David’s Hall Cardiff,
Snape Maltings, Henley Festival, Newbury
Spring Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival,
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Spain’s
International Music Festival Pórtico do Paraíso.
For Theatre she has scored ‘Under Milk Wood’
Plymouth’s Theatre Royal, ‘Macbeth’ Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre, ‘Black Sheep’ the Young
Vic Theatre/UK Tour, ‘Double Take’ Chichester’s
Minerva Theatre, the UK tour of Daphne Du Maurier’s
‘Rebecca, UK tour of ‘The Business of Murder’,
and Teatro Del’Angolo’s Italy/Switzerland tour of
‘Angeli Ai Confini’. Soundtracks for BBC Radio 3
and 4 Dramas include Javier Marías’ ‘Tomorrow
in the Battle Think on Me’, Sartre’s trilogy ‘The
Roads To Freedom’, Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’,
Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’, Robert Ferguson’s
‘Dr. Ibsen’s Ghosts’ and Jane Austen’s ‘Lady Susan’.
From winning BBC TV’s ‘The BBC Nationwide
Carol Competition’ at 17, Julie went on to study
composition at Cardiff University. She received her
first professional commission for television whilst
at University from BBC Wales, ‘The Celtic Road
Show’ and gained a postgraduate scholarship to
study ‘Composing for Film and Television’ at the
London College of Music.
Julie is constantly striving to improve gender
equality and diversity in music is a supporter of
the charitable foundation Donne Women In Music.
