John Cooper (46)

American composer, teacher, and performer. He earned a bachelor's in piano and a master's degree in Music Composition at The University Of Missouri, and studied piano and workshopped with Nadia Boulanger at American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. A turning point occurred in his career when he received a Fulbright grant to create a Western music program for the Calcutta School of Music in India. There, he came to appreciate the music possibilities of a wedding between Western and Indian music. He has lectured on the relationship between the music of India and the West throughout the United States and southeast Asia.