A Manhattan-native composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dan Cooper was educated at The Horace Mann School, Columbia College, NEC, and Princeton University. Principal teachers and mentors include John Heiss, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, and Otto Luening. As composer: Aaron Copland composition fellow at Tanglewood, original scores for several acclaimed Shakespeare & Company productions, plus awards, commissions, premieres, and residencies from Albany Symphony, Artists International, ASCAP, B3+, Cary Trust, Circadia, ESYO, Engine 27, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, ISC, Majestic Brass, Meet the Composer, NARAS, NYNME, New York Youth Symphony, Norwalk Youth Symphony, Palisades Virtuosi, and Sweet Plantain, among others. As a multi-instrumentalist specializing in 7-string bass guitar and also flute with electronics, Cooper has performed all over the world, as a member of singer Ute Lemper's trio, as well as the groups Vision Into Art, Sound Liberation, Free Radicals, and Erbium. Venues include Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Town Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Staatsoper Berlin, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Chicago Theater, Davies Hall, Massey Hall, Royal Festival Hall, The Blue Note, LPR, and Joe’s Pub among many others, plus broadcasts on NBC, BBC, Radio France, Bravo, and RAI. Cooper endorses Overwater bass guitars of Carlisle, U.K. Cooper is currently a music professor at SUNY-FIT, where he’s created new courses in American, European Classical, and Latin American & Caribbean music. In addition, he teaches music and Shakespeare classes at Greenwich House Senior Center in NYC. Cooper is a co-director of the chamber music series and record label Composers Concordance, distributed by Naxos.