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Bio

 

International award winning opera singer, recitalist, actress, recording artist and Blog Talk radio host, Bri Cooper, is the first classical singer featured in Black Enterprise Magazine, Scholar Magazine and is the 2013 East Carolina University School of Music Distinguished Alumni of the Year honoree. Her unique vocal timber has often been compared to the great opera singer Marian Anderson. In 2012 Bri was named a Marian Anderson Scholar and performed at the Philadelphia Convention Center in the Marian Anderson 73rd Annual Lincoln Memorial Concert Revisited. Bri made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Weil Recital Hall in the Voices of the New Millennium Concert in New York City and continues to be presented in recitals throughout the United States and Europe.

 

Ms. Cooper's performance experience includes television where she was seen in HBO's The Wire as the clerk in fifth season of the hit HBO series THE WIRE, Fox 45's Morning Music segment, Bronx Network TV's Monday Music Series, a Toyota commercial, and the HBO television pilot project The Washingtonian. Bri was also trained by the legendary film and television actor Hal Dewindt and starred in many of his Off Broadway productions with The American Theater of Harlem as Rosemary in Picnic and Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun. Ms. Cooper is guest contributor for Opera-gasm magazine and the host of Opera-luscious on Bolg Talk Radio.

 

Bri has performed with The Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Charleston Symphony International Tour of Porgy and Bess, The Israel Jerusalem Music Festival, Aspen Opera Theater and Opera Ebony Young Artist Program to name a few. Her debut with The Washington National Opera helped to establish her as not only a world class opera singer, but also an advocate for the education of opera for all ages, with The Washington National Opera Look- in Program where she performed the role of Titiuba from Robert Ward’s The Crucible. Bri's critically acclaimed debut CD Heavenly Grass: Great American Art Songs continues to bring attention to all genres of classical music. 

 

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