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Thomas Anderson

July 2005

The current season marks the twenty-seventh for Thomas Anderson as Conductor and Music Director of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra. During that time, he has conducted over 300 concerts by this outstanding community organization. In these concerts with the DSO and as a guest conductor elsewhere in Georgia, in North Carolina, and in England, Thomas Anderson has shared the stage with many of the world’s most acclaimed musical artists. In addition to its performances of the standard orchestral repertoire, the DeKalb Symphony has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the performance of the music of living composers.

A native of Atlanta, Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Duke University and holds Master’s and Doctoral degrees from The Florida State University where he also pursued advanced conducting study with Richard Burgin, longtime Associate Conductor and Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After 25 years as Director of Fine Arts at Georgia Perimeter College and three years as Provost of the College’s Clarkston Campus, he relinquished his affiliation with the College to return to musical activities on a full-time basis.

Among his professional and community service activities, Dr. Anderson is the former treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Conductor’s Guild, a former President and Life Member of the DeKalb Council for the Arts, and a former member of the Music Advisory Panel for the Georgia Council for the Arts. He has also written concert reviews for The Atlanta Jewish Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has done album notes for six nationally distributed compact disc recordings.