Christopher Cooley

Profile

Discipline: Voice

Pianist Christopher Cooley has concertized with various instrumental and vocal soloists in five continents, including at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he lives and has freelanced for over 20 years.  As a collaborative pianist, he has played for numerous summer opera festivals in Italy, Germany, and Austria, and at the Castleton Festival in Virginia and the Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists in Los Angeles.  Since 2006, Dr. Cooley has collaborated regularly with soprano Lauren Flanigan, and they have performed together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company Gala in Washington, D.C.  With soprano Amy Shoremount-Obra, he won second place in the 2019 Joy in Singing art song competition in New York.  He recently returned to the U.S. after spending a year in Klaipeda, Lithuania, where he served as staff pianist at the Klaipeda State Music Theatre.  Cooley is also an accomplished composer, arranger, and orchestrator.  He holds degrees from Florida State University and the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.