Biography
Dominic Duval / bass
Constance Cooper / Constance Cooper, composer/improviser, began working as an improviser with the First Avenue Ensemble at Merkin Hall, Princeton University, and The Kitchen in the 1990s. She then received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria) for her Acrobat, a double concerto with improvised solo violin and cello parts. A commission from the American Composers Forum led to her multi-movement Coming From Us, with new string-instrument hand-positions, bows, and notation (Cadence/Quixotic 5007). Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She received her PhD in composition from Princeton in 2003.
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