Margie Cooper plays in the first violin section of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. She spends her summers in Western New York as a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and plays in the Bach and Beyond Festival at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House as well as the Anchorage Festival of Music.

Other performance credits include service as associate concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the Fredonia Chamber Players, the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and the New York City Opera touring company.

She is a member of the faculty of Ithaca College where she plays in the Ariadne String Quartet and teaches studio violin. From 1980 until 1998, she was a faculty member at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, teaching both viola and violin.

In addition to the Ariadne Quartet, her chamber music credits include Trio con Brio, the Allegheny Trio, LiIthica Ensemble, as well as frequent appearances on the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra chamber series as well as performing on the Eine Kleine Quartzmusik series at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute.

As a fiddler, Margie has performed on many occasions with Adirondack singer/songwriter Dan Berggren and has been a guest performer on Jay Unger and Molly Masonis public radio show, Dancing On The Air, on WAMC in Albany, and also on WVBRis Bound For Glory. She has appeared several times as fiddler with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts for family and young audiences, performing Grant Cooper's environmental piece, Song of the Wolf.

In April of 1999 she and Dan collaborated as soloists with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra on their Adirondack tour.

Margie and Grant Cooper have two daughters; Jessica (16) and Rachel (13). They greeted the new millennium in New Zealand, where they shared the thrills of whitewater rafting and climbing one of the country's many active volcanoes.