Seth Cooper is originally from New York City where for 25 years he had been active as a composer, flutist, and artistic director as well as a producer of numerous concert series and agent for the Far East for several shows and dance companies, including the Martha Graham Dance Company in Hong Kong.
From 1997–02, he worked for Broadway producer Mel Howard on world-wide touring of his Tango Pasìon and Wild Women Blues.
Moving to Montreal in 2001, Cooper was international marketing consultant for I Musici de Montréal and the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal. In 2002, he joined Latitude45 Arts Promotion, Inc. and in 2004 moved to Paris, France where he soon became the North American agent for some of Europe's leading period music artists including Les Talens Lyriques, Ensemble Matheus, Le Poème Harmonique, Concerto Palatino and Concerto Köln.
Since 2004, Cooper has represented in the USA & Canada 16 different leading European ensembles, notably including Les Talens Lyriques, Ensemble Matheus, Le Poème Harmonique, Concerto Palatino and Concerto Köln. For these artists he has secured more than 70 engagements, staged productions, negotiated contracts, and managed promotional material and tour logistics in more than 30 different North American venues, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Cal Performances, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Vancouver Early Music Festival and many chamber music series and several universities.
