Jo Cooper grew up listening to the sounds of the sea, the wind rattling sash windows and mysterious creaks in an old farm house in wild west Wales. She played traditional Irish and Welsh music on the fiddle and tin whistle for years before moving to the north east of England to study Folk and Traditional
Music at Newcastle University.

After a masters in composition at Trinity Laban, she is now based in north Wales where she plays for dancing and in sessions, alongside maintaining a strong interest in new music.