Description

Mr. Anderson Page is a senior lecturer of jazz guitar in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University. In addition to teaching Applied Jazz Guitar, he also teaches History of Rock Music, Jazz in American Society, Heavy Metal Culture and Jazz/Pop Theory.  He maintains an active schedule in the Southeast with a variety of jazz and rock ensembles. He has performed internationally at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Japan’s Muroran Jazz Cruise, and for jazz workshops in Freiburg, Germany. Anderson worked in the cruise ship industry in the South Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean seas and also traveled with a nationally touring theatrical production. In recent years he has performed at Asheville’s Django Reinhardt Celebration and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazzfest in South Carolina, and has been a featured composer at the Jazz Composers Forum based in Asheville, NC. Anderson has performed private engagements for former President Bill Clinton and poet Maya Angelou, and has performed with jazz artists such as Phil Woods, Jamey Aebersold, Tony Monaco, Matt Wilson, Gary Smulyan, Don Braden, Chris Vidala, Jack Wilkins, Jon Metzger, and David Baker. Anderson served as clinician/performer at Clemson University’s inaugural Jazz Guitar Festival in October 2015, as well as the Elon University Jazz Festival in 2020.

A versatile musician, Anderson has played with the funk/rock group The Deciders at the 2009 Gathering Of Nations Native American Pow-wow in Albuquerque, NM, with Swing Guitars at Musicfest ‘n Sugar Grove (Doc Watson festival). Anderson has worked as a session player on numerous recordings, and has released a recording of gypsy waltzes entitled Souvenir de Django with the trio Musette Guitars, and an album of original jazz with The Page Brothers Trio. Outside of the Page Brothers, he divides time between Swing Guitars, Belleville Rendezvous, Todd Wright, and many other performing groups.

Anderson has a Masters degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Tennessee and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He has studied privately with renowned jazz educators Jerry Coker and Donald Brown and with guitarists Mark Boling, Bob Russell, and Robert Nathanson.