T.J. Anderson is one of the leading composers of his generation. He received degrees from West Virginia State College, Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Iowa. He also holds several honorary degrees. After serving as Chairman of the Department of Music at Tufts University for eight years, Thomas Jefferson Anderson became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music and in 1990 became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emeritus. He now devotes full time to writing music. T.J. Anderson takes pride in collaborations with his distinguished friends writer Leon Forrest and sculptor Richard Hunt. A number of his works have been premiered in the artist's studio. As a lecturer, consultant, and visiting composer, he has appeared in institutions in the United States, Brazil, Germany, France, and Switzerland. He has been a fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation, the National Humanities Center (their first composer), and as a scholar-in- residence at the Rockefeller Center for the Creative Arts, Bellagio, Italy.
T. J. Anderson
Studios
Monday Music
T. J. Anderson worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…