Music Department Faculty

Stephen Anderson
Assistant Professor, Jazz Studies and Composition

Office: Hill Hall 218
Email: anderssr@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-1039

http://www.unc.edu/~anderssr/index.html (artist page)

(Assistant Professor, Jazz Studies and Composition) is both a composer and a pianist. Anderson earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts (2005), and a Master’s of Music (2000) in composition at the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at Brigham Young University in 1997. He studied composition with Cindy McTee, Joseph Klein, Tom Clark, Joseph Butch Rovan, Phil Winsor, and Paris Rutherford at UNT, and Stephen Jones, David Sargent, Michael Hicks, and Murray Boren at BYU. He studied jazz piano with Dan Haerle and Stephan Karlson at UNT, Dan Waldis at BYU, Gary Freeman at Eastfield College, and Wilson Brown at Ricks College.

As a composer, his works have been commissioned and/or performed by a variety of artists and ensembles: The West Point Military Academy Band, The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, The UNC Wind Ensemble, Lynn Seaton and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Crested Butte Chamber Orchestra, the One O' Clock Lab Band, Two O’clock Lab band, North Carolina Central University Percussion Ensemble, UNC Charlotte Percussion Ensemble, Christopher Deane, Brian Bowman, Jason Ham, the Lynn Seaton Trio, and a film score broadcast nationally on PBS.

As a pianist, Anderson is a recording artist for Summit Records, and his trio CD "Forget Not" was released in March 2008.  Previously Anderson performed and recorded with the Lynn Seaton Trio (“Puttin’ On the Ritz” – Nagel Heyer Records, 2005), and played and recorded with the One O’clock Lab Band (Lab 2001), served as house pianist in the International Trombone Festival (2002), and was keyboardist for a short time with (country-western) gold-recording artist, Kevin Sharp (1996-1997).  From 2003 to 2005, Anderson served as Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University and performed in the faculty jazz sextet.

Awards and recognitions include: Reviews of Lynn Seaton Trio recording in All About Jazz, Jazz Times (March 2006), Downbeat Magazine (April 2006), Barlow Foundation commission to compose a percussion concerto for Rone Sparrow, soloist, and the West Point Military Academy Band (premiered April 2005). UNT outstanding composition student of the year (2003), Enclosures, for solo bass reviewed in the annual journal of the International Society of Basses (2003), Enclosures – Honorable Mention in the International Society of Basses composition competition (2002), winner of Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival piano competition, and first runner up of all instrumentalists (1997), recognized in Downbeat magazine (September, 1997), outstanding music student (of graduating class) BYU College of Music (1997), member of Phi Kappa Phi (2003; 2005).

Teaching experience includes: Assistant Professor, Composition and Jazz Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill (Fall 2005 to the present), Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University (2003-2005), Composition Teaching Fellow UNT (2002-2003), Jazz Arranging Teaching Assistant UNT (1999-2002), Piano Instructor UNT Community Music Program (1997-2003), Director of Jazz Combos BYU (1995-1997).

Recent publications:

1. Forget Not - The Stephen Anderson Trio.  CD release featuring Anderson's compositions (Summit Records 2008).   
2. Ballads 2006 – compilation CD recording/publication (arrangement, Londonderry Aire – Lynn Seaton Trio), Nagel Heyer Records (2006).
3.  “Three Elements of Bebop” – article published in Piano Today Magazine (2006).
4. Rhyth Migot – big band score, UNC Jazz Press (Spring 2006).
   
5. Time of the End – big band score, UNC Jazz Press (Spring 2006).
6. “Three Elements of Bebop” – article published in IAJE NC Winter 2006 Newsletter.
7. “Puttin’ On the Ritz” – recording, Lynn Seaton Trio, Nagel Heyer Records (2005).
8. Rhyth Migot – recording, On the Horizon, Western Illinois University Jazz Studio Orchestra (2005).

Recent premiers and other concerts include:

1. Refulgence, for euphonium and piano – Jason Ham, euphonium (of the West Point Military Academy Band), University of South Florida at Tampa (February 19, 2007).
2. Greensleeves, arrangement for big band – premier, North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra (December 9, 2006).
3. Lips Co., for percussion ensemble – UNC Charlotte Percussion Ensemble; Rick Dior, director (December 5, 2006).
4. Festival Internacional de Jazz y Blues at San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico – Jazz trio concert, clinician, jam session house pianist (November 22-25, 2006); featuring compositions from Forget Not album project.
5. Lips Co., premier – North Carolina Central University Percussion Ensemble; Thomas Taylor, director (November 2, 2006).
6. Deviations – for solo violin and MAX/MSP – New Music Festival UNC Greensboro (October 13, 2006).
7. Craig Butterfield Trio Concert – University of South Carolina; featuring compositions from Forget Not album project (October 2, 2006).
8. Duke Ellington Tribute Concert – UNC Wilmington (September 22, 2006).
9. Jazz Trio Concert and master class – Meredith College, NC (July 12, 2006).
10. “Stella By Starlight” – arrangement premier, Lynn Seaton and Dallas Chamber Orchestra (February 2006).
11. Concerto for Solo Percussion and Concert Band – premier, West Point Military Band (April 2005).

Other recent projects:

1. Saturn Return – Joel Fountain composer. CD released on independent label, SITMOM Records (2006).

Selected links for Lynn Seaton Trio - “Puttin’ On the Ritz” (reviews and other websites):

All About Jazz

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20088 (Dr. Judith Schlesinger, reviewer)

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20362 (Marcia Hillman, reviewer)

Jazz Times

http://www.jazztimes.com/reviews/cd_reviews/detail.cfm?article_id=16662 (March, 2006 issue)

Other selected sites:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CCS706/103-8372879-9774251?v=glance&n=5174

http://www.qualiton.com/