The BBC’s third installment in the Donna Leon detective series set in Venice is now on BBC Sounds. Episode 1 was broadcast Sunday 14th June, 2026 on BBC Radio 4/Drama on 4 with Episode 2 broadcast on Sunday 21st June 3pm, all now available on BBC Sounds.
Anna Lapwood, Rusanda Panfili and the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir perform the World Premiere of Firedove at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 8th March 2026 as part of the International Women’s Day concert.
Soundtrack to the new BBC Radio 4 Drama ‘ACQUA ALTA’, the 2nd Series from Donna Leon’s crime novels set in Venice. Featuring the track ‘Pavane in Burnt Orange’ off the ‘OCULUS’ album together with newly commissioned piano music.
Julie’s reimagining of Liszt’s piano piece for Jess Gillam and the Jess Gillam Ensemble, the 1st single to be released off her EP ‘PRISM Vol.II’
A Big Fish Radio Production of Donna Leon’s book ‘Death at La Fenice’, directed by Eoin O’Callaghan for BBC Radio 4, scored by Julie Cooper.
FULL UPDATE COMING… NEW ALBUM ‘OCULUS’ OUT – Friday 9th February, 2024 On Signum Classics and all streaming platforms
Discussing her production music albums and their sync in film, television drama, documentary and video games.
Radio 3’s Linton Stephens features ‘Venus in Sunlight Grey’ on his final ‘Classical Fix’ podcast with Cherry Healey.
Inspirational one-handed classical pianist Nicholas McCarthy performs at this central London venue.
Released in celebration of International Women’s Day 2024′, the ‘LULLABY in Valley Green’ video celebrating all the Women Artists on the ‘Oculus’ Album.
Julie Cooper introduces her new album OCULUS, a classical exploration of synaesthesia that draws from famous Renaissance paintings.
A duet inspired by the extraordinary vocal talents of the Internationally acclaimed soprano Grace Davidson and viral Tik Tok close-harmony singer/actor/writer Anna Hale, fusing classical with contemporary.
A concert in recognition of those who supported musicians throughout the pandemic.
White and Silver : Julie Cooper and the Her Ensemble Live at the Royal Albert Hall
‘ASCENSIO’ is the 3rd single to drop from Julie Cooper’s album ‘OCULUS’ on Signum Records. Written for and recorded by the acclaimed Romanian/African pianist and founder of The African Concert Series, Rebeca Omordia. Meaning to rise, climb and soar, ASCENSIO is inspired by Rebeca’s incredibly sensitive and rhythmical playing and the beautiful spiral ‘Tulip Stairs’…
Sarah Stuart’s interview for Musifée as part of Women’s History Month. Composer Julie Cooper discusses her visual inspirations, her latest album ‘CONTINUUM’, and her upcoming album ‘OCULUS’ featuring Rebeca Omordia and Grace Davidson. Read the article here »
‘Venus in Sunlight Grey’ is released in celebration of International Women’s Day on March 7th 2023. Available on all streaming platforms, this is the second single to be released from the forthcoming album ‘OCULUS’.
‘To a Skylark’ is the 1st single to be released off Julie Cooper’s next album OCULUS with Signum Records, the 3rd album of hers to feature the acclaimed soprano Grace Davidson.
Donne, Women in Music at the Royal Albert Hall concert on Sunday 23rd October 2022. Rebeca Omordia will perform the world premiere of ‘Ascensio’, recorded by Rebeca for Julie’s new album released in 2023 on Signum Records. Julie will perform with ‘The HER Ensemble’ her track ‘White and Silver’ from the KPM/EMI album ‘Human Stories’.
Working with a demo of the track, she created the incredibly moving narrative ‘Hold out the Heart’, impeccably timed to the ebb and flow of the music and capturing the essence and emotions of the pandemic lockdowns with unbelievable accuracy…
Continuum Album Reviewed by Gramophone magazine – May 2022 Gramophone Magazine provides an in depth review of the latest album release ‘Continuum’ – read the full piece here.
Julie Cooper’s album was created during the lockdown. ‘Continuum’ named ‘Album of the Week’ on Scala Radio.
CONTINUUM Album Released on February 25th 2022. Continue for further details about this latest Signum Classics release.
BBC Radio 3 – ‘In Tune’ – Sean Rafferty speaks with Julie Cooper about album release of ‘Continuum’ in February 2022.
Adjoa Andoh has collaborated with the award-winning British composer Julie Cooper on the title track of a new album called ‘Continuum’.
BBC RADIO 3 Record Review with Andrew McCarthy of ‘CONTINUUM’ album February 2022.
“Honoured to be Donne Composer of The Week on Scala Radio in partnership with Donne, Women In Music (8th-14th November 2021), raising awareness of Women In Music with an interview with Mark Forrest on his programme 9th November at 10.30am.
Honoured to be featured as one of 10 Women Composers to be highlighted in March on Scala Radio in partnership with DONNE – Women In Music.
Sync of the track ‘The Secret’ Taken from the album ‘Haunted by the Secret’ – for the launch trailer of Ovid Works’ video game ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ on PS4, XBoxOne, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Piano Soundscape for Left Hand featured in The Royal Albert Hall’s virtual concert series #RoyalAlbertHome performed by concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy. The piece also featured in Nicholas’ virtual recital as part of the Royal Albert Home concert series on 9th August, 2020. The series was set up by the Royal Albert Hall to enable artists…
‘Galilean Moons’ featuring in Nicholas McCarthy’s spring UK concert tour. Nicholas McCarthy goes back on tour in March and is including ‘Galilean Moons’ in his programme. The concert series is called ‘Concerts In The West’ – Click here to book tickets for one of these concerts in March 2020.
Galilean Moons World Premiere at St.Martin-in-the-Fields 12th November, 2019 as the final concert of pianist Nicholas McCarthy’s UK Piano Pilgrimage Tour. Inspired by Nicholas and this 50th Anniversary year of Man landing on the moon, the Galilean Moons were discovered by Galilei Galileo in 1610.
Features ‘Dancing on Air’ – from the recently released Symphonic Skies album used as the soundtrack for the trailer for the Women Filmmakers’ Festival De Cine de Madrid 2019.
Scala Radio features ‘Falling in Air’ track from the ‘Symphonic Skies’ album broadcasting on ‘In The Park’ and ‘The Space’ programmes.
SMN Film use the track ‘Light Sky’ on their promotional film for The Blackcurrant Foundation. Click below to watch ‘Artistry of Blackcurrants’
Lastest Sync – ‘Glory Of Earth’ track taken from the album ‘Symphonic Skies’ used for the ‘Innocent Blue’ advertising campaign.
Latest cinematic orchestral album released by Audio Network featuring haunting soprano vocal of Grace Davidson, recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
World premiere performance of LIGHT at St.Martin-in-the Fields, London by the acclaimed soprano Grace Davidson, featuring clarinet Helen Paskins, cello Justin Pearson and piano Julie Cooper. LIGHT was inspired by Andrew Motion’s poem that surrounds the external balustrade of the St.Martin-in-the-Fields lightwell commissioned by Modus Operandi.
Multi-composer album released on Universal’s Chappell label for ‘Cinematic Gamescapes’ and a film featuring 8 of my tracks. Have a listen to the album.
Two nominations for the award for ‘Best Score in Production Music’ from the Universal album ‘Haunted by the Secret’ on their Chappell Noir label – winning with the track ‘Game Of Trust’.