Giles Cooper (producer)

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]

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

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

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 2006.^[24]
• Freedom of the City of London, 2014.^[5]