• Clarinet
• Principal Clarinet

Michael Anderson is Principal Clarinetist of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. He performed for twenty years as Principal Clarinet of the Oregon Bach Festival where he is now Director of Artistic Administration. He has performed with Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theater, Chamber Music Northwest, and the festival Le Domaine Forget (Quebec, Canada). Michael has performed chamber music with pianists Jeffrey Kahane and Robert Levin; fortepianist Richard Egarr; classical and baroque violinist Jaap Schroeder; jazz musician Dick Hyman; composers Tomas Svoboda, John Cage and Steve Reich; new music group Third Angle; and the Oregon String Quartet. He has appeared as a recitalist at the Shedd Institute in Eugene, and has performed as with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Coast Music Festival, the Eugene Symphony and the Oregon Mozart Players. His clarinet studies were with David Shifrin at USC and with John McManus and Wayne Bennett at the University of Oregon. Michael's favorite pieces of classical music are Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," Bach's "Mass in B Minor," and Copland's "Appalachian Spring." Outside of music, he enjoys hiking, reading, traveling, and most of all, spending time with his family. His most memorable musical experience with the Eugene Symphony was performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducting.