Stephen Cooper

Stephen began his singing career as a choirboy and finished runner-up in the national UK Chorister of the Year Awards in 1978. He is presently an auxiliary lay clerk in Southwell Minster’s cathedral choir. A versatile interpreter of song, his wide-ranging recitals have included lieder cycles by Schubert and Schumann, a recital to mark the centenary of the Great War Armistice, a programme of nautically themed songs entitled Sea Fever, and a specially commissioned setting of A Village Romeo and Juliet for soprano and baritone, with words by Radio 4’s Nigel Forde and music by Suffolk composer Jack Hawes. In 2019 Stephen recorded two song cycles composed by Simon Mold for
the Heritage label, available on HTGCD 178.