Experience:
Faculty Positions Kean University, Union, NJ adjunct professor, music survey, class piano, music fundamentals, staff accompanist, since 2005 Crestwood Music, Eastchester, NY piano faculty since 1998 New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ staff accompanist, coaching/accompanying 1997 – 2007 previous teaching: Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT affiliate professor, piano The Kent School, Kent, CT piano faculty Diller-Quaille School of Music, New York, NY music for young children.
Education:
Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY Master of Music – Piano Bachelor of Music – Piano with Robert Helps, Sonia Vargas, Marc Silverman, accompanying with Donal Nold, Joseph Seiger Voice with Arturo Spinetti.
Located:
Rockland County, NY
Performances:
New Jersey Symphony orchestral keyboards 1985 to present New Jersey Chamber Music Society Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Merkin Hall, NYC chamber music performances Orchestra New England The National Chorale, Lincoln Center, NYC accompanist in concerts and tour Lake George Opera Festival New Jersey State Repertory Opera Carnegie Hall The Kitchen, NYC Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC WQXR Radio, The Listening Room National Public Radio Contemporary ensembles, performances, recordings British Saxophone Congress, Cardiff, Wales Yale University, New Haven, CT Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio. “She was nothing less than spectacular as she put out orchestral textures with dazzling technique” the Newark Star-Ledger wrote of Lois Anderson. Active as a pianist and collaborative artist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, the British Saxophone Congress in Wales, orchestral keyboards with Orchestra New England and New Jersey Symphony, and has been heard on WQXR and National Public Radio. Her work with singers has included tours with the National Chorale and Lake George Opera Festival. She has given many works their premier performances and first recordings, participating in numerous contemporary music concerts at Storm King Music Festival in Cornwall, NY, and recently recording new music of Walter Hartley with members of Manhattan Chamber Orchestra for the Keuka Classical label. As a composer and arranger her musical scores have been heard on ABC-TV and PBS and her original music is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of a global Internet collaborative art work. Lois currently teaches at Kean University.
