Artists // Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson first studied music at Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania, USA) where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982. She obtained a Master of Music in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of Music (Maryland, USA) in 1987. Later that year she travelled to Brussels (Belgium) to study instrumental composition with Jacqueline Fontyn at the Brussels Royal Conservatory, where she received a Diploma in Composition in 1990. She discovered electronic music while exploring contemporary instrumental composition techniques and obtained a Final Diploma in electronic music composition at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 1993 with Joris de Laet, at which point she decided to consecrate herself to composition for fixed media. In 1994 she received the Premier prix, and in 1998 the Diplôme supérieur, in electroacoustic music composition at the Royal Conservatory of Mons with Annette Vande Gorne. Elizabeth Anderson completed a PhD in electroacoustic music at City University London (UK) in 2011 with Denis Smalley. Her dissertation, Materials, Meaning and Metaphor: Unveiling Spatio-Temporal Pertinences in Acousmatic Music, centres on the perception of electroacoustic music and the elaboration of a metaphorical language for electroacoustic art. Funding for her doctorate was provided by an Overseas Research Scholarship as well as subsidies from the Fondation SPES and the British Federation of Women Graduates Charitable Foundation.

Elizabeth Anderson’s music has been honoured in several competitions including the following: ASCAP/SEAMUS (USA, 2001), Bourges (France, 1994), CIMESP (Brazil) in 1995, 2001, ’03, ’07), Città di Udine (Italie, 2004), Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer (Pescara, Italie, 2007), Métamorphoses (Brussels, Belgium, 2004), Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic, 2008), Noroit-Léonce Petitot (Arras, France, 1998), Stockholm (Sweden, 1994), International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (TIME, 2002).

She has been invited by diverse institutions to realize compositions and to give conferences and performances.

Elizabeth Anderson organised and developed a comprehensive course in electroacoustic composition at the Academy of Music in Soignies (Belgium) from 1994 until 2002. In 2003 at the Royal Conservatory of Mons she lectured on perception, the history of electroacoustic music, and composition. She is currently responsible for the course on semiology in electroacoustic music.

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Elizabeth Anderson
Orange, New Jersey, USA, 1960
Residence: Brussels, Belgium
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