Discipline: Music Composition

Allen Anderson

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Chapel Hill, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
Allen Anderson received a B.Mus. (1973) from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1984) in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University. A composer and head of the Composition Area at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he teaches courses in composition, theory, and analysis. Before joining the UNC faculty in 1996, he taught at Columbia University, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University. He received the Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC in 1999, a Schwab Academic Excellence Award in 2017, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC.

Studios

New Jersey

Allen Anderson worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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