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Dr. Cora Cooper teaches violin, viola, chamber music and string techniques at Kansas State University. She holds graduate degrees in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University. Her teachers have included Peter Salaff, Charles Castleman, Linda Cerone, Karen Clarke and Eliot Chapo. She and Karen Clarke are co-editors of Six Duettos for Two Violins by Maddalena Lombardini-Sirmen, published by Hildegard Publishing Company. Her work with music by women composers has led to performances/presentations at the Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1993, 1995 and 1998) and lectures in the United States and England. Dr. Cooper has played professionally with the Vermont, Austin and Tallahassee Symphonies and currently performs with the Ling Concert Series (Bethany College), the Early Music Consort (based in Kansas City) and faculty groups at Kansas State University. In Decmber 1999 she joined the Da Vinci String Quartet to record Charles Martin Loeffler's Quintet in One Movement for NAXOS. Dr. Cooper also served as chair of the violin committee for the ASTA String Syllabus.
Sound clip of Debussy Violin Sonata, with Bill Wingfield, piano
(338K WAV)
Sound clip of Maddalena Lombardini-Sirmen Duetto #6 in C Major on
baroque violins, with Professor Karen Clarke, Florida State University
(334K WAV)
The Trio Débranché (with David Littrell, cello, and Joe Brumbeloe,
piano) performing Mozart Piano Trio K.502 in Bb Major. (363K WAV)
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