News — Cooper Baldwin

**April 2023**

**Selected as one of 12 semi-finalists in the 2023** **vienna symphonic library composer contest**

**November 2022 to June 2023**

**Selected as one of 15 composers/songwriters to participate in the 2022-2023** **SCL NY Mentor Program**

**June 2022 to September 2022**

**Selected as one of 15 songwriters to participate in the** **2022 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project**

**June 2022 to July 2022**

**Selected as one of 15 composers to participate in the choral arts initiatives** **2022 project premiere festival (PPf)**

**June 2022**

**Winner of the press start orchestras 2022 emerging composer competition**

**March 2022**

***Selected as one of 7 composers to have works featured at the 2022*** ***Western American Choral Directors Association Conference (WACDA)***

**November 2021 to January 2022**

***Selected as one of 14 composers to participate in the 2022 Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive***

**September 28, 2019**

**Cooper has been announced as the winner of the** **Capital Hearings 2019 young composers competition. His piece, *give me your tired, give me your poor*, was premiered at their concert on september 28, 2019.**

**May 2019**

***Tapped as the orchestrator for Tony-award nominated actress Sally Mayes’ original play*** ***“Contradiction Of The Southern Soul”***

**January 20th, 2018**

**Cooper has been announced as the winner of the** **Cantate Chamber Singers 11th Biennial Young Composers’ Contest. His piece, *The Rest Is Silence*, was premiered at their concert on January 20th, 2018.**

**October 26, 2016 to October 29, 2016**

Cooper has been announced as the co-composer - alongside Benjamin Shelby Allen - for TheatreOCU’s production of *The Crucible* under the direction of Dr. Lance Marsh. *The Crucible* received four performances in the Berg Theater at Oklahoma City University, from October 26th, 2016 through October 29th, 2016.

**April 7th, 2016 to April 10, 2016**

Cooper has been announced as the composer for TheatreOCU’s production of *As You Like It*, directed by Stephen Wrentmore. *As You Like It* received six performances in the Berg Theater at Oklahoma City University, from April 7th 2016 through April 10th 2016.

November 13, 2014 to November 16, 2014

Cooper has been announced as the composer for TheatreOCU’s production of *The Marriage Of Bette & Boo,* directed by Robert Lowe. *The Marriage Of Bette & Boo* received four performances in the Black Box Theater at Oklahoma City University, from November 13th 2014 through November 16th 2014.

• Tapped as the arranger for Highagain Production's music video "24 Hours"

More information about the music video can be found at the project's kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421463782/studio24?ref=thanks_share

• Announced as Composer-In-Residence for the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season

• Cooper has been announced as Composer-In-Residence for the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra’s (OYO) 2016-2017 season. His piece, There Will Come Soft Rain, was premiered at their concert on May 7th, 2017. It was performed again at the Oklahoma Composers’ Orchestra’s May 26th, 2017 concert at Oklahoma City University

• Announced as the composer for the short film Gone Away

• Cooper has been announced as the composer for the short film Gone Away, directed by Veronica St. Clair and Melanie Abernathy. The score for the 30-minute film was completed in May of 2016, and the film is currently in post-production.