Stephen Anderson is both a composer and a pianist. As a composer, his works have been commissioned and/or performed by a variety of artists and ensembles: The West Point Military Band, Christopher Deane, Brian Bowman, Lynn Seaton and the Dallas Chamber Symphony, the Crested Butte Chamber Orchestra, the One O' Clock Lab Band, Two O’clock Lab band, the Lynn Seaton Trio, Rone Sparrow, and a film score broadcast nationally on PBS.

As a pianist, Anderson has performed and recorded with the Lynn Seaton Trio (Puttin’ On the Ritz – Nagel Heyer Records, 2005), and played and recorded with the One O’clock Lab Band (Lab 2001). He served as house pianist in the International Trombone Festival (2002) and was keyboardist for a short time with (country-western) gold-recording artist, Kevin Sharp (1996-1997). From 2003 to 2005, Anderson served as Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University and performed in the faculty jazz sextet. Currently, he teaches composition and jazz studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Anderson earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts (2005), and a Master’s of Music (2000) in composition at the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at Brigham University in 1997. He studied composition with Cindy McTee, Joseph Klein, Tom Clark, Joseph Butch Rovan, Phil Winsor, and Paris Rutherford at UNT, and Stephen Jones, David Sargent, Michael Hicks, and Murray Boren at BYU. He studied jazz piano with Dan Haerle and Stephan Karlson at UNT, Dan Waldis at BYU, Gary Freeman at Eastfield College, and Wilson Brown at Ricks College.

Teaching experience includes: Assistant Professor, Composition and Jazz Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill (Fall 2005), Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University (2003-2005), Composition Teaching Fellow UNT (2002-2003), Jazz Arranging Teaching Assistant UNT (1999-2002), Piano Instructor UNT Community Music Program (1997-2003), Director of Jazz Combos BYU (1995-1997).