Garland Anderson (composer)

Garland Anderson (April 10, 1933 Union City, Ohio^[1] – 2001) was an American composer and pianist. He studied with Hans Gal and Roy Harris.^[2] In 1976 he was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts's Composer Assistance Program.^[3] This grant enabled Anderson to work on his opera Soyazhe which was given its world premiere at the Central City Opera in Denver in 1979.^[4] He lived most of his life in Indiana and is chiefly remembered for his jazz and ragtime compositions, in particular his work Streetsyncs: Eleven Ragtime Pieces for Piano. He composed his Piano Concerto No. 2 for concert pianist John Kozar who has performed the work on a number of occasions.^[5]