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Andrea Cockerton

Andrea is a composer whose musical career started at the tender age of 7 when she played the Entertainer at an Old Time Music Hall concert in a village hall. In 1989 she was named West Suffolk Young Musician of the Year and in the late 80’s won a music scholarship to Uppingham School, followed by a choral scholarship to study music at Trinity College, Cambridge. During her time at Trinity she sang, toured and recorded as part of the highly regarded Trinity Choir, under conductor Richard Marlow. However, neither life as a pianist or pursuing becoming a singer felt ‘right’, so she moved towards her other passion of business and entrepreneurship… admittedly a slightly unexpected route for a musician.

For 15 years Cockerton worked in both London and Cambridge in the world of tech start-ups and finance, building expertise in pitching (a different form of sound communication) and keeping music as an unresolved hobby. In 2010, music won out. Cockerton created the ground-breaking sound experience company, We Are Sound, calling on all her musical and entrepreneurial skills. Three years later she founded the not-for-profit Dosoco music foundation to run alongside We Are Sound – Dosoco has gone on to give out over £20,000 to projects using sound and music to change the world – and in 2018 Cockerton was listed as one of NESTA’s (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) and The Observer’s #50newradicals for this work.

Click here to find out more about Andrea Cockerton, her art practice and experience.

Click here to find out more about Andrea’s ‘The Sound Bank’ project at CBC during 2021.