Greg Anderson
Pianist, composer, curator, and filmmaker Greg Anderson resolutely defined his life’s mission early in his career: to make classical music a powerful and relevant force in society. In the two decades since, he has dedicated every ounce of his restless intellect, finetuned ability, and innate connectivity to craft listening experiences that realize that vision.
The worldwide response has been extraordinary. Today Greg is an internationally renowned concert pianist with live tours reaching four continents and 24 countries, 30+ million music video views, daily radio plays, and over a thousand performances of his compositions every year. His artistic endeavors have appeared on screens big and small (documentaries and movies, PBS and MTV, Oprah and Will & Grace) and have inspired a wide array of culture, from a Korean soap opera to a 150-person spectacle at the Drum Corps International World Championships.
Greg has toured extensively as a soloist, duo pianist, and chamber musician, with performances that have been described as “gripping, with rapturous renderings of perfumed textures... thoughtful, passionate and very in the moment” (San Jose Mercury News). He has performed in many of the world’s most significant concert halls, including NYC’s Carnegie and David Geffen halls, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Munich’s Hercules Hall, Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Seoul Arts Center. Festivals include Gilmore, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Grand Teton, Santa Fe, Chautauqua, and Styriarte, and he has soloed with the orchestras of San Francisco, Vancouver, Calgary, St. Paul, Chicago, Rochester, Liverpool, Bucharest, and more.
For over two decades, Greg has performed in collaboration with Elizabeth Joy Roe as the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, noted as “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “the very model of complete 21st-century musicians” (The Washington Post). Their five critically acclaimed albums on the Universal and Steinway record labels have spent over a dozen weeks on the Billboard Classical Charts.
A world leader on the advancement of classical music, Greg has been invited to present at numerous international leader symposiums, and he has served as webcast host of the Cliburn International Piano Competition and guest host of NPR’s From the Top. He has produced, directed, and edited 70-plus music videos, and with an Emmy nomination, premieres at international film festivals, and millions of views on YouTube, his films have been influential in shaping the 21st-century classical music video genre. His 100-plus compositions and arrangements are featured on the Universal, Sony, EMI, and Steinway record labels and are frequently performed by concert pianists, major orchestras, and amateurs alike.
Greg received his Doctor and Master of Musical Arts degrees (D.M.A. and M.M.A.) from Yale University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from The Juilliard School. Greg is a Steinway artist. gregandersonpiano.com & andersonroe.com