Biography
Elizabeth Anderson’s Scottish fiddle playing is rooted in a tradition that has rallied the peasantry at village celebrations, moved the gentry at palace balls, and solidified national pride the country over. Her belief in the power of music to continue to create communities in the modern day shines through in her performing and teaching. The driving rhythms and captivating nuance of Elizabeth’s fiddling and her enthusiasm for the music draw in audiences and students alike.
Always guided by tradition, Elizabeth is at the vanguard of the strings revolution. A student at Berklee College of Music, she studies with violin pioneer Darol Anger and is in turn bringing the newest sounds in strings to Scottish fiddle. Fluent in Celtic and Appalachian fiddle styles, as well as classical and jazz violin, she attains the new standard for multi-genre strings players and tastefully draws from her many areas of interest in her performances, compositions, and arrangements. Elizabeth is in demand as a musician for Scottish dances and is an active performer at venues such as Club Passim, the Boston Celtic Music Festival, Ossipee Valley Music Festival. Her opening set for the Battlefield Band at The Burren was recorded for airing on WGBH’s A Celtic Sojourn. Her upcoming performances will take her farther afield to the Newport Folk Festival this summer and to the Blue Note in collaboration with Kenny Werner.
Although exhilarated by the stage, Elizabeth’s true passion lies in her declared major, music education. With six years of teaching experience behind her, she now aspires to bring her experience and enthusiasm to a school setting. Her dedication to her career stems from a belief in the necessity of music in the schools to inspire a love of learning, encourage individual creativity, and foster empathy. Elizabeth’s teaching has touched the lives of her private students, the beginning fiddle classes she taught at the 2014 Maine Fiddle Camp, and campers at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School, where she has been an institution since 2006. She has also brought her fiddle camp teaching experience back to her hometown of Westborough, Massachusetts, where she successfully launched her own summer program, Chauncy Fiddle Camp, in 2014.
Elizabeth aspires in her teaching to give encouragement to young musicians in order to pass on her own experience of being supported by her community and her remarkable teachers as she developed as a musician. Beginning at age seven, Elizabeth was trained through the Suzuki method and continued her classical training through high school. At age twelve, she was introduced to Scottish fiddle music by Hanneke Cassel at Pinewoods Camp, a camp dedicated to traditional dance and music. Her summers after that were spent at fiddle camps learning from world-renowned fiddlers. She has also immersed herself in the Scottish fiddle competition scene, where she has placed every year she has entered, notably winning the New England Junior competition three times and most recently placing third in the U.S. National Open Championships.
Elizabeth lends her talents to brother-sister Scottish fiddle duo Elizabeth and Ben Anderson, the Berklee-based Celtic band Ragged Robin, the folk quintet The Eddy Marshall Band, and an active Berklee jazz string quartet organized by Darol Anger.
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Always guided by tradition, Elizabeth is at the vanguard of the strings revolution. A student at Berklee College of Music, she studies with violin pioneer Darol Anger and is in turn bringing the newest sounds in strings to Scottish fiddle. Fluent in Celtic and Appalachian fiddle styles, as well as classical and jazz violin, she attains the new standard for multi-genre strings players and tastefully draws from her many areas of interest in her performances, compositions, and arrangements. Elizabeth is in demand as a musician for Scottish dances and is an active performer at venues such as Club Passim, the Boston Celtic Music Festival, Ossipee Valley Music Festival. Her opening set for the Battlefield Band at The Burren was recorded for airing on WGBH’s A Celtic Sojourn. Her upcoming performances will take her farther afield to the Newport Folk Festival this summer and to the Blue Note in collaboration with Kenny Werner.
Although exhilarated by the stage, Elizabeth’s true passion lies in her declared major, music education. With six years of teaching experience behind her, she now aspires to bring her experience and enthusiasm to a school setting. Her dedication to her career stems from a belief in the necessity of music in the schools to inspire a love of learning, encourage individual creativity, and foster empathy. Elizabeth’s teaching has touched the lives of her private students, the beginning fiddle classes she taught at the 2014 Maine Fiddle Camp, and campers at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School, where she has been an institution since 2006. She has also brought her fiddle camp teaching experience back to her hometown of Westborough, Massachusetts, where she successfully launched her own summer program, Chauncy Fiddle Camp, in 2014.
Elizabeth aspires in her teaching to give encouragement to young musicians in order to pass on her own experience of being supported by her community and her remarkable teachers as she developed as a musician. Beginning at age seven, Elizabeth was trained through the Suzuki method and continued her classical training through high school. At age twelve, she was introduced to Scottish fiddle music by Hanneke Cassel at Pinewoods Camp, a camp dedicated to traditional dance and music. Her summers after that were spent at fiddle camps learning from world-renowned fiddlers. She has also immersed herself in the Scottish fiddle competition scene, where she has placed every year she has entered, notably winning the New England Junior competition three times and most recently placing third in the U.S. National Open Championships.
Elizabeth lends her talents to brother-sister Scottish fiddle duo Elizabeth and Ben Anderson, the Berklee-based Celtic band Ragged Robin, the folk quintet The Eddy Marshall Band, and an active Berklee jazz string quartet organized by Darol Anger.
https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethAndBenAnderson