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UNC, Library of Congress launch summer music fellowships Three graduate students in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will research the music of composer Samuel Barber during World War II, the National Negro Opera Company and the 1975 musical “Chicago” with new summer fellowships at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Musicologist and anthropologist awarded summer NEH fellowships Music professor Annegret Fauser and anthropology professor Lorraine Aragon in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded $6,000 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the summer of 2008.
Announcing the 2008 Kenan Music Scholars! Three instrumentalists and a vocalist have been named the second class of Kenan Music Scholars, receiving full scholarships in music to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Music Department Faculty

Robert Keir Anderson

Robert Keir Anderson
Adjunct Faculty

Office: 104 Hill Hall
Email: bobbyone@earthlink.net
Phone: 919-962-1039

Robert Keir Anderson 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.
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