Originally from Philadelphia, he first learned piano from his grandmother and composes on that very piano to this day. He studied music composition at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and film scoring at USC’s graduate music program. He has scored over 60 films, episodic television, documentaries, ad campaigns and fine art installations.Renowned composer David Raksin described Anderson’s work as “a many-layered, intelligent writing: at one moment thought provoking and bittersweet, the next quirky and uniquely humorous.” In addition to “the American mosaic – an unsung requiem”, Anderson recently completed “The Lotus Quartet”, for string quartet, and is currently at work on a song cycle based on the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe, as well as a recording of his arrangements of the piano music of John Cage.