Bri Cooper

International

Bri Cooper

International

Award winning opera singer, recitalist, actress and recording artist, Bri Cooper, is the first classical singer featured in the international issues of Scholar Magazine, and Black Enterprise Magazine. Bri was also recently featured on ABC Here and Now and is the 2013 East Carolina University School of Music Distinguished Alumni of the Year. In 2012 Bri was named a Marian Anderson Scholar.

Ms. Cooper made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Weil Recital Hall in the Voices of the New Millennium Concert in New York City and is presented in recitals throughout the United States and Europe. Along with opera and recital, Br was seen in HBO's The Wire, The American Theater of Harlem's Picnic and A Raisin in the Sun and is guest contributor for OPERAgasm magazine.

Her unique voice has been compared to the great opera singer Marian Anderson. Bridgette was featured guest soloist for the unveiling of Thomas Jefferson's historical "North Star Newspaper" at the Benjamin Banneker Museum. Ms. Cooper was invited to sing for the Ambassador of the Bahamas as guest soloist for the Bahamas Independence Day and Goombay Festival which celebrates her Bahamian heritage , national Disc Jockey, Donnie Simpson and was featured on FOX45 Morning Show, singing a selection from her debut CD, Heavenly Grass: Great American Art Songs. Ms. Cooper's television credits include the role of the clerk in fifth season of the hit HBO series THE WIRE, Toyota commercial, and the television pilot project Ms. Cooper has performed in recital throughout the United States and Europe. She recently released her debut CD Heavenly Grass: Great American Art Songs to rave reviews.

Ms. Cooper 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 our younger generation, with The Washington National Opera Look- in Program where she performed the role of Titiuba from Robert Ward’s The Crucible.

  • Work
    • Opera Singer
  • Education
    • East Carolina University