Originally from Bolton, Katy Cooper completed an MA in Music at the University of Glasgow in 2002 and an MMus in 2003. She is currently studying for a PhD, researching seventeenth-century Scottish song manuscripts. She teaches at the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Strathclyde.
An experienced choral singer and conductor, Katy is Senior Choral Scholar with Glasgow University Chapel Choir and sings with English choir Sine Nomine and award winning folk-harmony group Muldoon's Picnic.
Katy also conducts Happy Voices Children's Choir and female chamber choir Madrigirls, who were recently featured on radio Scotland's Radio Cafe.
In 2003, she was awarded the John Coates Memorial Baton by the English choral charity Sing for Pleasure, with whom she continues to work as a tutor and course director, and as editor of their quarterly newsletter 'Vocalise'.
With Muldoon's Picnic, Katy performs at folk clubs and festivals throughout Britain, and delivers workshops in various forms of harmony singing including American shapenote and world music traditions.