Robert V. Cooper, Jr., Executive Director
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Robert V. Cooper, Jr. has served as the Executive Director of the Guy Fraser Harrison Academy for the Performing Arts (Oklahoma Youth Orchestras) since January, 1999. In that time, the Academy has grown from three ensembles and 170 students to nine ensembles and 400 students. He is an active member of the Youth Orchestra Division Board of the League of American Orchestras, and serves as the Division secretary. Cooper is a graduate of Georgetown University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service in 1976.
Since June, 1999, he has served as the organist/choir director of Lutheran Church of Our Savior, and is active with the Oklahoma City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and is on steering committees for Pipe Organ Encounters and the 2011 regional convention in Oklahoma City. He is also a member of the Lutheran Musicians of Central Oklahoma.
His wife, Lizann, is the music teacher at Apollo Elementary in the Putnam City School District. All three of their children (Holliann, horn; Robert, III, oboe; and Lynleigh, trombone) are alumni of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra.
