Tim Cooper was born in 1954 in Ingersoll, a small town in southern Ontario, Canada.  He received the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto, and in 1978 began teaching in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, where he is now a full professor.  In 1989 he completed by DMA in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Georgia in Athens.  Tim has dedicated his musical life to working with amateur choirs.  He has conducted choirs in the Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic and United Churches, and has conducted choral societies and amateur chamber choirs in Fredericton since 1978. 

Tim has worked as a choral clinician and festival adjudicator for many years, and is the former Vice-president of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors (ACCC) and former Editor of Anacrusis, the ACCC journal.  He also appears as tenor soloist with various choirs throughout the Maritimes.  He has  been writing music since he was in high school and, like Benjamin Britten, always for specific people, groups and situations.  He is married and with his wife have six children, one of whom has just given them their first grandchild.

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