Ruth Anderson

Ruth Anderson (March 21, 1928 – November 29, 2019) was an American composer, orchestrator, teacher, and flutist. Biography Evelyn Ruth Anderson was born March 21, 1928, in Kalispell, Montana. She was a composer of orchestral and electronic music. Her extensive education spanned two decades, and was spent at eight different institutions. Throughout this time, Anderson was the recipient of a multitude of awards and grants, including two Fulbright awards (1958–60) to study composition with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After completing her education, Anderson spent time as a freelance composer, orchestrator, and choral arranger for NBC-TV, and later for Lincoln Center Theater. Post-secondary education 1949 — Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, University of Washington 1951 — Master of Arts, University of Washington 1958–60 — studied with Darius Milhaud and with Nadia Boulanger at The American School at Fontainebleau 1962–63 — Princeton University Graduate School (one of the first four women admitted) 1965, 1966, 1969 — Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (today, the Computer Music Center) She was a "respected electronic composer" whose works have been released on the Opus One label, Charles Amirkhanian's "pioneering" LP anthology New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1977), New World/CRI, Arch Records, and Experimental Intermedia (XI). Further work was released on Arc Light in 2020.