Music Department Faculty
Robert Keir Anderson
Lecturer
Office: 07 Hill Hall
Email: bobbyone@earthlink.net
Phone: 919-962-1039
Mr. Anderson has been a member of the North Carolina Symphony since 1971 and holds the position of Assistant Principal Double-Bass. He also has served as Acting Principal. His performances in Memorial Hall at UNC began in 1972 with Dr. Benjamin Swalin conducting the NC Symphony. He was Assistant Principal Double-Bass at the Eastern Music Festival from 1972-1986. His professional performing experience started in high school with the Erie (PA) Philharmonic. He has also played with the Rochester Philharmonic, Savannah Symphony and the Chatauqua Institute Orchestra.
Chamber music performances include concerts at UNC, the Eastern Music Festival, the Skaneateles (NY) Chamber Music Festival, in Durham, Raleigh and elsewhere.
Mr. Anderson taught private lessons, chamber music and bass class at the Eastern Music Festival. He teaches at the Cannon Music Camp at Appalachian State University. He has been guest clinician at Wake Tech and has a busy private studio with students from middle school to adult.
He helped initiate and produce the NC Symphony “Summerfest” series. He also helped produced benefit concerts for AIDS, Nuclear Freeze, and 9/11 memorial performances. He serves on the governing board of Local 500, AF of M, and has been Orchestra Committee Chair for the NC Symphony. For more information, click on About Us-People.
For more information regarding the strings area at UNC, please visit:
https://music.unc.edu/undergrad/Areas/Strings%20/Strings