Giles Cooper (producer)

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Giles Cooper
OBE
Occupation(s) promoter (entertainment), music promoter, producer
Website gcelive.com

Giles Richard Cooper OBE is a British entertainment producer, concert promoter and marketer. [1] He is managing director of Soho Media Group, [2] based in the West End of London and CEO of Giles Cooper Entertainment t/a GCE Live. [3] He is chairman of the Royal Variety Charity, [4] and since 2010 has been one of the producers of its annual fund-raising event, the Royal Variety Performance. [5]

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Cooper was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006, and received the Freedom of the City of London in 2014. [6]

Work

Cooper worked for music magazines Melody Maker and New Musical Express , [5] and in 1998 founded a marketing agency, Media Junction.[ citation needed ]

Cooper was a volunteer with the Entertainment Artistes Benevolent Fund – now known as the Royal Variety Charity – from 2007. [7] In 2010, he was elected chairman of the charity. [8] He organises, and is one of the producers of, the Royal Variety Performance, an annual fundraising event. [9] [10] In 2015, Cooper was one of the producers of a Sunday Night at the London Palladium show [11] with Des O'Connor and Jimmy Tarbuck to raise funds for the charity. [12]

Cooper has promoted music tours for bands such as Placebo and the Happy Mondays [13] and theatre and spoken-word tours for BBC TV presenters such as Simon Reeve [14] [15] and Dan Snow. [16]

Cooper is also well known for presenting and producing outdoor concerts in the grounds of English Heritage and other stately homes such as Kenwood House on London's Hampstead Heath [17] and Audley End House and Gardens in Saffron Walden, Essex. [18]

He has also produced shows for artists such as Kris Kristofferson, [19] Alfie Boe, [20] Hacienda Classical, Orbital and Leftfield, [21] José Carreras, [22] the Human League, ABC, [23] and the Jacksons. [18]

Recognition

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