2005 Swan Award Winner: Linda Allen Anderson

Linda Allen Anderson earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in music education at the University of Illinois, where she was elected to membership in both Mu Phi Epsilon and Pi Kappa Lambda. She completed further graduate work at various universities and studied with prominent choral authorities, including Howard Swan, Harold Decker, Eric Ericson, and Robert Shaw.

Mrs. Anderson taught high school in Illinois and New Jersey for six years before moving to California. Employed in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District from 1962-92, she served as chairman of the Santa Monica High School Music Department and also taught for twenty-one years at John Adams Junior High School, where she developed a comprehensive choral program of six sequentially organized choirs. From 1989-1995 she taught courses in vocal pedagogy and choral curriculum/literature at UCLA. She also served on the faculties of Santa Monica College and California State University, Los Angeles. Singers under Mrs. Anderson’s direction were selected to perform for National, Western Division, and State Conventions of the American Choral Directors’ Association and for numerous CMEA, SCVA, CCG, and NATS conferences. 

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