Gerald Anderson
Gerald E. Anderson has retired from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as Chairman of Music Education/Supervisor of Student Teachers and taught courses in string, woodwind, and brass techniques; instrumental curriculum and literature; and conducting.
Prior to his arrival at UCLA in 1979, Mr. Anderson taught instrumental music for nineteen years at all levels of public education, from elementary school through community college. For six years he was Director of Instrumental Music at Paul Revere Junior High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. During eleven years at Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica California, he developed that school's Symphony Orchestra into one of the finest secondary school organizations in the United States, recognized for its artistry through invitational performances for conventions of the Music Educators' National Conference in San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Tucson.
Mr. Anderson earned B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Music Education at the University of Illinois, where he was elected to membership in both Phi Mu Alpha-Sinfonia and Pi Kappa Lambda. His professional affiliations include membership in Music Educators' National Conference, National School Orchestra Association, American String Teachers' Association, California Music Educators' Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, and Suzuki Association of the Americas. Mr. Anderson has conducted numerous honor groups and has frequently served as an adjudicator and clinician throughout the United States, Australia, Singapore, and Taiwan.
He has authored or co-authored various instrumental music publications that are used in schools throughout the United States, England, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia, including the following: author, ESSENTIALS FOR STRINGS string technique method; co-author, ALL FOR STRINGS string method, Books I, II, and III; co-author, ALL FOR STRINGS SOLOS & ETUDES, Books I and II, and ALL FOR STRINGS THEORY, Books I and II; co-author, BEST IN CLASS band method, Books.
