Some of my favorites
Bandcamp, October 2021 | Sunrise: Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp
Pitchfork, July 2020 | Jacob Cooper: Terrain
San Francisco Classical Voice, July 2020 | Let Yourself Think With Jacob Cooper’s Terrain
The New York Times, May 2020 | A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time
Stereophile, Apr. 2020 | Recording of the Month: afterimage
National Public Radio, Jan. 2020 | NPR Music’s Top 10 albums of January: afterimage
The New York Times, Jan. 2016 | Composers’ Collectives Offer Creativity and Challenges
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 2016 | More New Music Innovation from Eighth Blackbird
The New York Times, Jan. 2015 | A Visceral Slide into Darkness
WNYC: New Sounds, May 2014 | Voice and Electronics, Episode #3593
WQXR:Q2, Apr. 2014 | Venerable Label Makes Bold Move with Emerging Composer Jacob Cooper
NPR: Here & Now, Dec. 2013 | A Resurgence of Electronic Classical Music
NPR: All Things Considered, Aug. 2009 | “Timberbrit”: Opera Tackles the Trials of Britney
Some of the others
WNYC New Sounds, October 2021 | Sunrise on New Sounds #4550: Music Based on Century-Old Tragedies
WRUU Contemporary Classics, October 2021 | Interview with Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw
A Closer Listen | Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw – Sunrise
Sequenza 21 | Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw – Sunrise
Tupelo Quarterly, November 2020 | Jacob Cooper’s Terrain: A Roundtable on Music, Poetry, and Collaboration
Night After Night, July 2020 | Recording of the Week: Terrain
WRUU Contemporary Classics, July 2020 | Interview with Jacob Cooper
WUOT Early Morning Concert, July 2020 | Jacob Cooper Talks Terrain
WNMU Classiclectic Connection, July 2020 | Jacob Cooper: Terrain
WGTE Classical Conversations, July 2020 | Jacob Cooper: Terrain
15 Questions, July 2020 | Interview with Jacob Cooper
The New Yorker, Jan. 2020 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
WNYC: New Sounds, Jan. 2020 | Ashley Bathgate: Ley Line
Textura, Jan. 2020 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage
Bandcamp, Oct. 2019 | Ash: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical
The New York Times, Feb. 2017 | Duets in “Some of a Thousand Words” Say it All
San Francisco Classical Voice, Feb. 2017 | Composer John Adams Still Stretches His Horizons
Pitchfork, Nov. 2016 | Album Review: Vicky Chow, A O R T A
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 2016 | Post:Ballet’s ‘Do Be’ does something new
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 2016 | Post:Ballet’s Dekkers proves ‘Do Be’ project worth doing
A Closer Listen, May 2016 | Eighth Blackbird ~ Hand Eye
The Los Angeles Times, Apr. 2016 | Beth Morrison’s 21c Liederabend Op. LA at Disney Hall
Stereophile.com, Apr. 2016 | Hand Eye Wigs Out
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2016 | Eighth Blackbird and 6 Composers, Working Together
The New York Times, Jan. 2016 | Review: Eighth Blackbird Ensemble Plays Sleeping Giant’s Suite
The New Yorker, Jan. 2016 | Classical Music Recitals (Hand Eye)
The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2016 | Composing a Work of Art
The New York Times, Jan. 2016 | Sleeping Giant’s Hand Eye to Have New York Premiere by Eighth Blackbird
The Albany Times Union, Mar. 2015| Reworked “Requiem” A Conversation Starter
The New Yorker, Jan. 2015 | Against Type
UK Independent, Apr. 2014 | Album Reviews: Silver Threads (print only)
Wondering Sound, Apr. 2014 | Jacob Cooper, Silver Threads
I Care if You Listen Magazine, June 2014 | The Unforced Profundity of Jacob Cooper’s Silver Threads (print only)
The Albany Times Union, June 2013 | ASO Dogs of Desire @ EMPAC
The New York Times, Jan. 2013 | Classical Music and Opera Listings (Silver Threads, starred recommendation)
The New Yorker, Jan. 2013 | Classical Music Recitals (Silver Threads)
WQXR: Q2, Apr. 2012 | Jacob Cooper finds Grace in Diaphanous Slow Motion
WQXR blog, Apr. 2012 | Die Another Day
Capital NY / Politico NY, Apr. 2012 | This Year’s MATA Festival of Young Composers Surprises With Immersive Sound Worlds
The New York Times, Apr. 2012 | Slashes and Shrieks in a Clamorous Return to the Barricades
The New York Times, Apr. 2012 | Whistling Eclecticism: Motors and Fishing Line
Pitchfork, Apr. 2012 | Report: MATA Festival
The New York Times, Feb. 2012 | Brooklyn Composers Riff on Stravinsky
The Washington Post, June 2012 | Deviant Septet presents fresh take in ‘Histories’ at Atlas Performing Arts Center
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