Prof. Andrew Anderson

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Prof. Andrew (Andy) Anderson serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a tenured member of the bass sections of both the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. He also performs regularly with the Joffrey Ballet and Chicago Camerata. For more than two decades, he has been an active presence in Chicago’s musical community, appearing with these and many other ensembles. His engagements have also included performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and the American Ballet Theater in New York. Beyond performing, Prof. Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Lakeside Artists Guild and Academy, a nonprofit organization based in Cedar Lake, Indiana. In 2018, he was named “Illinois Studio Teacher of the Year” by the Illinois Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. He was a featured guest soloist at the Midwest Clinic in 2015 and has served as orchestra director at Illiana Christian High School since 2018.

Since 2006, Anderson has been a member of the Artist Faculty at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. In addition, he has served as Guest Lecturer in Double Bass at Wheaton College since 2011. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music degree from Indiana University. He later served as a doctoral teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. His principal teachers include Stuart Sankey, Lawrence Hurst, Jeff Bradetich, Larry Zgonc, Bill Clay, Steve Molina, and his father, Dave Anderson. He also studied string pedagogy with Robert Culver at the University of Michigan and low string pedagogy with Helga Winolt at Indiana University.