Stromberg, for bass clarinet, piano & chamber orchestra, 1993.

Die Egge, for high voice, strings, and piano (text from Kafka’s Penal Colony), 1993. (see Awards)

420.3H for Piano Solo, premiered by Jenny Tang, American Festival of Keyboard Music, The New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, 1992.

10 Miniature Songs for soprano and piano, “nonsense” text by composer. Presented at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong, 1992.

In Memory of Miss Emily Kimbrough, private commission (piano quartet), NYC, 1989.

Piu Danzar Presplen Dardoor, wedding (sop, trpt, fl, strgs), Church of Our Saviour, NYC, 1989.

Bill & Georgia’s Wedding Piece, private commission (brass quintet), Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC, 1989.

Noon Deeché, for Dr. Albert Grokoest, Spectra Arts, Inc. commission (baritone voice and viola), Hudson, NY, 1988.

Piano Quintet Movement, for Sophia Y. Jacobs and Emily Kimbrough, private commission, NYC,1987.

Echoes of the Shining Prince, Spectra Arts, Inc. commission (one-act opera for soprano, traditional Japanese singer, koto, marimba, flute, & strings, Merkin Hall, 1985 & 1986.

Two Movements for String Quartet dedicated to Dr. Albert Grokoest, Merkin Hall, NYC, 1985 & Alexander String Quartet performance at Ethical Culture Society, NYC, 1991.

L’Ombra Molesta, in memory of Doug Osserman, with poetry from Dante’s Inferno (Italian speaker, fl, string trio, & piano) Spectra Arts commission, private performance, NYC, 1983.

What Rough Beast? N.Y. Quintet commission (fl, cl, sop sax, timpani, marimba, bass), Holy Trinity Church & St. Peter’s Church, NYC, 1982.

Knockout in Eden, Spectra Arts commission, (speaker, fl, vn, sax, bsn) with poetry by Ted Hughes. Hudson, Woodstock, Spencertown Academy performances, 1982.

Knockout, Mannes College Contemporary Ensemble performance (fl, cl, t. sax, b. tromb) 1980.

Theater/Film/Video

Biblical Music, flute, guitar, percussion, for Virtual Bible, Inc. website, Toronto, Canada, 2000.

Fineman's Dictionary, sound score for play by Sam Gesser, directed by Muriel Gold, starring Fyvush Finkel, Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2000.

A Portrait of Leni Schwendinger, music for video documentary of Leni Schwendinger’s public light projects, 1994.

HKNY, synthesized score for an experimental film by Roger Garcia, presented in Zuni Icosahedron’s Invisivible Cities at City Hall, Hong Kong, 1992.

Odd Jobs, directed by Megs Booker, theater score (synthesized tape and sound effects) 4-week run at the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, Sarasota, Fl. 1992

Festival 2000, synthesized music, Opening Ceremony, The Hong Arts Festival at the Academy of the Performing Arts, Hong Kong, 1991.

The End, synthesized film score for five-minute experimental film by Stephen Frailey, Hong Kong, 1990.

Expanding/Contracting, sound collage soundtrack for video documentary by Leni Schwendinger, 1989.

Between Wind, Lenox Arts/Music Theater Group commission, directed by Ann Bogart, (vocal quartet, Japanese traditional singer, flute, koto, marimba, & horn), Lenox, Mass., 1986.

Soji Visits Israel, soundtrack for video documentary (Klezmer band, soprano, Cantor, flute, koto, synthesizer, & shofar) K.C.C. Production, NYC 1986.

Dance/Multimedia

Betelgeuse, for solo viola, synthesized tape, text by Isaac Newton and projected slides. Commissioned by violist Rozanna Weinberger. Presented by the Collaborative Arts Project 21 in its Blackjacks IV series at the Dicapo Opera Theatre, NYC 1996 and in Brasilia, Brazil, 1994.

Piano Quintet, choreographed by Flora Cheong-leen, 3 performances at City Hall, Hong Kong by Hong Kong Ballet, 1995.

Aphaia, full length multi-media work commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Center for its Festival 2000. Live score (flute, string trio), synthesized electronic tape, and sound effects and dance. Hong Kong, 1991. [Danced/choreographed by Tomoko Ukishima, former Principal, H.K. Ballet]

Dancing Ink, co-commission by The Asia Society & Spectra Arts (Chinese chanter, dancers, slides, marimba, fl, bass cl, hn, db, erhu-hu, cheng, ti-tsu), The Asia Society, 1984. [danced/choreographed by Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director, Bat Sheva Dance Company, Israel]

The Ballad of Anne & Sloan, Spectra Arts, Inc. commission (dance score: guitar, marimba, fl,cl, vn,trpt, bsn, trbn, & db) Merkin Hall, NYC, 1982. [danced/choreographed by Joan Lombardi Dance Company]

Bounce, commission by Catlin Cobb (dance score with electronic tape (fl, cl, sax, bassoon) Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, 1979.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Baroque Fantasies, Artistic Director, Three 18^th C. evenings of music, theater, and cuisine from France, Italy and Germany. Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2000.

Mustique Summer Arts Festival, Artistic Director, flutist. Annual three-concerts series of classical, original, and American popular music on Mustique Island. Three concerts presented in Cotton House Hotel and various private homes. 1997-1999.

Odd Jobs, Sound Designer & Composer. A 4-week run of dramatic play directed by Megs Booker, presented by the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, Sarasota, Fl. 1992.

Aphaia, Artistic Director, Composer & Flutist. Multi-media work conceived by Seth Cooper for dance, film, live & taped music, and sound effects. Commissioned and presented by the Hong Kong Arts Center, Festival 2000, Hong Kong, 1991.

Jacobs Private Concerts, Musical Director, Composer, Flutist. A series of 18 chamber music concerts of 19th & 20th C. chamber music. Performances in home of Mrs. Sophia Y. Jacobs and Miss Emily Kimbrough, NYC, 1982-1987.

Between Wind, Musical Director, Composer, & Flutist. Produced by Lyn Austin, Lenox Arts/Music Theater Group. Directed by Anne Bogart. Lenox, Mass. 3-week run, July, 1986.

Soji Visits Israel, Musical Director, Composer, & Flutist. 1-hour video documentary about Japanese calligrapher’s Jewish origins. Produced by the Kampo Cultural Center, NYC, 1986.

Dancing Ink, Artistic Director, Composer & Flutist, co-commissioned by The Asia Society and Spectra Arts, Inc. One-hour work including Wang Wei Poetry, dance, slides of calligraphy and music. 2 performances at The Asia Society, 1984.

Spectra Arts., Inc. Co-founder, Artistic Director. Presented 4 complete, original programs of cross-cultural music, dance, & poetry in Merkin Hall, St. Peter’s Church, NYC, upstate New York. Funded by The Dillon Fund, The Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, Meet the Composer, The N.Y. State Council on the Arts, and private individuals, 1981-1986.

New York Solo Ensemble, Inc., Co-Founder, co-artistic director. Chamber music ensemble offered monthly concerts at The Little Church Around the Corner, 1 East 29th St., NYC. 1975-197

PERFORMANCES AS FLUTIST OR OF COMPOSITIONS

Merkin Hall; Carnegie Recital Hall; DTW; Roulette; PS1; The Asia Society; Theater of the Open Eye; Ethical Culture Society; WBAI Radio; NYC Public Radio. Hudson, Woodstock, Germantown, Spencertown, Woodstock Radio, Schenectady T.V.

Virtual Bible Website, recording (flute) Toronto, 2000.

Fineman's Dictionary,tape (flute), Place des Arts, Montreal, QC, 2000

Mustique Summer Music Festival (1997), Mustique Island, West Indies

Flute, Porgy and Bess, Ceasaria, Israel, Israel Festival, 1994.

Flute/piccolo, Porgy and Bess, Living Arts, Inc.’s New England , 1994.

New England Conservatory, Boston, MA.

Lenox Arts/Music Theater Group, Lenox, MA.

Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, Sarasota, FL.

Italy and Japan, including Japanese T.V.

City Hall, Hong Kong; The Fringe Club, Hong Kong; Drama Theater,

Academy of the Performing Arts, Hong Kong; Radio/TV, Hong Kong.

TEACHING

Private Students, 1971-1987

New School for Social Research, guest lecturer, 1986-1987.

Mannes College of Music, Preparatory School, flute teacher 1977-1981.

Ethical Culture School, flute teacher 1979-1980.

Children’s Aid Society, music director, 1979-1981.

Lighthouse School for the Blind, flute teacher, 1977-1979.

EDUCATION

Mannes College, B.S., 1975:

Flute, John Wummer; Piano, Edith Oppens;Counterpoint, Anthony Newman; Schenker Analysis, Felix Salzer, Ernst Oster, & Carl Schacter Jean Pierre Rampal Master Class, Nice, France, 1978 Tanglewood Music Festival, 1973, flute, Doriot Dwyer Aspen Music Festival, 1971, piano, Edith Oppens Columbia College, Columbia University, 1969-1970

Horace Mann School for Boys, HS Diploma, 1969

Athens College, Psihixo, Greece, exchange student, 1966-1967

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS & GRANTS

CALQ Commissioning Grant, Québec, Canada 2004: Bathory

Honorable Mention - 1993 International Chamber Music Competition [on a text by Kafka ] - sponsored by the Czech Music Fund, The Kafka Society, and the Musica Judaica

Foundation (Prague, Czechoslovakia), 1993: Die Egge

MacDowell Colony -Composer Residency, 1990.

Jean & Louis Dreyfus/MacDowell Fellow for 1988.

MacDowell Colony -Composer Residency, 1988.

Meet the Composer Award, 1985.(sponsored by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)

nventor Hyper-Time TM Accenting Electronic Metronome with Rests, 1976.

Jellineck Medal for Excellence in Music, Horace Mann School, 1969.

REVIEWS

Odd Jobs (directed by Megs Booker)

“...Canadian wilderness evoked with dazzling beauty by Seth Cooper’s music and sound design.”

The Tampa Tribune, 1992

“ Seth Cooper’s musical score, an electronic concoction of catchy recurring themes, may be the play’s most memorable single component.”

The Times, Sarasota, 1992

Between Wind (directed by Ann Bogart)

“...evocative music by Seth Cooper... under a canopy that suggests origami, sit the four musicians, who provide a delicate palette of tone-painting on marimba, French horn, flute and a keening human voice - an aural emblem of the loss and disconnection that is the universal lot of the characters.”

The Boston Globe, 1986.

Syrinx

“...flutist Cooper played Debussy’s Syrinx with a centered, liquid tone, sounding wood-wild, dark and intoxicating.” Sunday Freeman, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 1986.

Echoes of the Shining Prince “...creamy texture and European harmony...” The New York Times, 1985.

Dancing Ink

“Dancing Ink brought together several talented artists. Seth Cooper, who served as artistic director of the entire event, composed a score for both Chinese and western instruments that was filled with delicate shimmering sounds that seemed to come not from the orchestra pit, but from far away in space and time.”

The New York Times, 1984.

The Ballad of Anne & Sloan

“...an effectively dramatic score...crisply played.”

The New York Times, 1982.

QUOTES (FROM LETTERS)

“I find Seth Cooper’s music sensitive, skilled and of an extraordinary beauty...I listen to hundreds of composers’ works each year in my programming capacity with this orchestra, and Seth Cooper really stands out. (1986)

Francis Thorne. President, American Composers Orchestra

“...Seth demonstrated a unique ability to merge eastern and western musical forms...an emotionally charged and lovely score emerged...he clearly understands merging music and theatre, and is capable of making a significant contribution to the field. (1986)

Lyn Austin , Producing Director, Music Theater Group

“...I was very impressed by the dance, music and overall concept and presentation in Dancing Ink. It was an original and creative response to calligraphy.” (1984)

Dr. Andrew Pekarik, Director, The Asia Society Galleries

“I have heard marvelous comments about Dancing Ink...as I told you before, Dancing Ink shows the links between calligraphy, dance, music, and poetry and suggests the living interweave of values and aesthetics behind the Chinese and East Asian cultures...without Dancing Ink, most Americans simply see calligraphy as incomprehensible...my congratulations and deepest thanks for your involvement in this successful effort. (1984)

Robert B. Oxnam

President, The Asia Society

“It is impossible to isolate any one of your accomplishments as an impressario. Certainly yours is a rare combination of musical talent, common sense, and skill in handling other human beings.” (1983)

Mrs. Sophia Y. Jacobs & Miss Emily Kimbrough

“I am very excited about your new metronome, Hyper-time...one like yours is long overdue.” (1980)

Jim Preiss

Percussionist, Steve Reich & Musicians

“Seth Cooper is an extraordinarily talented musician.” (1975)

John Wummer, Former Principal Flute,

New York Philharmonic

“Seth Cooper is endowed with a natural feeling for the most refined intricacies of musical structure.” (1973)

Edith Oppens

Piano Faculty, Mannes College of Music