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A Brief History of Eugene
Anderson
Born on January 28, 1944, Eugene Anderson began his formal studies
of music at the age of ten playing tuba in the Brookfield, Wisconsin
schools. Having received three summer clinic music camp scholarships and
winning numerous awards as a tuba soloist in high school, Mr. Anderson
took up study as a music major at the University of Wisconsin. He
graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Music, and his first teaching
position as tuba instructor at the University of Toledo soon followed.
Deciding to leave Toledo to pursue a master of music in composition, Mr.
Anderson went to Arizona State University and graduated Magna cum laude
in 1973. (His composition instructors were Ronald LoPresti and Grant
Fletcher.) After teaching for two years at ASU, he then went on to be
director of bands at Apache Junction High School for the next five
years, winning several awards.
Mr. Anderson's composition career started in high school at the age
of fifteen and has continued until the present. Today, he composes for
band, orchestra and chamber music while performing and conducting. Mr.
Anderson has performed with the Madison Civic Symphony, Toledo
Orchestra, Toledo Ballet, Toledo Brass Quintet, Phoenix Symphony, and
Mesa Symphony. He has published seventy works so far which have sold
worldwide through his own music publishing company. His concerto for
tuba and orchestra is the largest solo work to date for this instrument.
The Mesa March, being his most recently finished work, and a "Suite
for Band", dedicated to Dr. Richard Strange and the ASU Symphonic
Band, is now nearing completion.
Mr. Anderson signed his first Royalty Contract on July 4, 1995 with
Cimarron Music of Dallas, Texas. And now has 32 pieces in print and
published for music stores. Mr. Anderson has been married to his wife,
Jeannie, for 30+ years, has four adopted children and they have provided him with six
grandchildren.
Anderson's Tuba Concerto #1 in Bminor has been performed by the students of Arizona State University and Samuel Pilafian at the
Chandler Center for the Arts in Chandler, Arizona on September
26, 1997 in a world premeire. A recording has been made of the concerto by famed
sound engineer Joseph Magee of Los Angeles, included special work performed by recording
artist Samuel Pilafian. For Mr. Anderson, as in the movie "Mr.
Holland's Opus", the dream of many years is finally becoming a
reality.
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