Claudia Anderson

CLAUDIA ANDERSON is known for her originality and brilliance as a solo and  chamber music performer across the U.S. She is a founding member of the  innovative flute duo ZAWA! (with Jill Felber) and the summer flute intensive  Passion Flute: Foundations for Creative Performing. Principal flute with the  Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Symphony and on the faculty of Grinnell College during the summer, Anderson is flute faculty and Wind Area Head of the College  Intensive program at Rocky Ridge Music (www.rockyridge.org) in Colorado. She  has taught at the Universities of Iowa and Northern Iowa, Ithaca College and the  University of California at Santa Barbara. An active member of the National Flute  Association, she recently completed a 4-year term on the NFA’s New Music  Advisory Committee and served on the Nominating Committee in 2020-21.

Claudia’s solo album In This World (released in 2014 on CDBaby) includes her  debut as a composer, Weather Conversations for flute and electronics. ALRY  Publications released Weather Conversations in August 2017, the company’s first  flute and fixed media publication. In 2019 ALRY released the latest in a series of  ZAWA! arrangements and original compositions for the duo, Snap! for two flutes  and fixed electronic media by John Rommereim. ZAWA! commissioned flutist composer Cynthia Folio to write Z3 for two flutes and piano (2008) and recorded  it on Cynthia’s chamber music CD Inverno Azul in 2014 (BCM+D Records). In  2014 ZAWA commissioned and premiered Cynthia’s double flute concerto, Winds  for Change, a musical meditation on the environment. Winds for Change tours  nationally and internationally in its latest version – an all-flute chamber orchestra  – with Angeleita Floyd conducting.  

Claudia’s newest project, Glass Ceilings, commissioned several high-profile  women composers and flutists to write pieces for flute(s) solo and electronic  media, with its originating theme of gender inequality expanded to embrace the  effects of Covid-19 and racial tensions of 2020. The program of works by Eve  Beglarian, Lisa Bost-Sandberg, Allison Loggins-Hull, Ali Ryerson, and Anderson  began touring nationally in early 2022 and continues in 2022-’23.

As of  September 2022, all the commissioned works are published: Eve Beglarian’s  music at evbvd.com, Lisa Bost-Sandberg’s with Chromaworks at lisabost.com and  justflutes.com, Allison Loggins-Hull at Flutronix.com, Ali Ryerson’s at Theodore  Presser Music, and Claudia Anderson’s at alrypublications.com.