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Anthony Dean Griffey to Join Music Faculty as Artist-in-Residence We are delighted to welcome internationally renowned tenor Anthony Dean Griffey to our faculty this year as artist-in-residence. His affiliation with UNC-Chapel Hill adds to the strong reputation in the Arts which Carolina is building. During the year, Mr. Griffey will be coaching and teaching master classes to our voice students and to our Kenan Scholars’ cohort, working with chamber music students and UNC Opera students, and speaking in select academic classes.
Announcing the 2009-2010 Kenan Music Scholars The Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is delighted to announce the appointment of the following four Kenan Music Scholars set to enter the university in fall 2009. They will join our eight current Kenan Music Scholars in this exciting and innovative program.
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Music Department Faculty

Robert Keir Anderson

Robert Keir Anderson
Lecturer

Office: 07 Hill Hall
Email: bobbyone@earthlink.net
Phone: 919-962-1039

Robert Keir Anderson (Lecturer) graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1971 with a B.M. in Performance, where he studied with Oscar Zimmerman. He attended the Chatauqua Summer Institute and Tanglewood Festival, where he studied with Robert Leininger and Henry Portnoi.

 
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
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