Mr. Cooper attended Berry College in Rome, GA and the University of Georgia in Athens. He graduated from UGA in 2018 with a Bachelors of Arts in Music Education. Focusing on choral education, he completed 3 practicums and 1 semester of student teaching with middle and high school chorus programs.

Throughout his college career, Mr. Cooper music directed 2 cabarets and 2 musicals with Next Act Musical Theatre, performed with the UGA Wind Symphony on French horn, gave voice lessons to first-year theatre students, and continued choral accompaniment for schools in Georgia's District XIV.

Mr. Cooper has worked with choirs from grades 6-12 since 2012. His interest in teaching chorus first sparked through a county-sponsored high school mentorship where he directed a local church's youth choir. He went on to accompany and perform with many choirs, eventually beginning his career as a choral educator. 

During his tenure at Jefferson Middle School, Mr. Cooper taught traditional choral classrooms, show choirs, and musical theatre. Utilizing his experience and skills as a musician, he composed and arranged music for his choirs and pursued a lifelong dream of writing and producing his original musical, Dreamer.