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.