Anderson has been awarded composition commissions from the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council, the Music Teachers National Association & Georgia Music Teachers Association and the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra. He was presented with DeKalb College’s President’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1990 from DeKalb College for his composition “Sonata No. 3, Op. 30 for Alto/Soprano Saxophone & Piano” and frequently receives ASCAP Plus awards. Since his retirement from college teaching in 2004, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra premiered his “War Chant, Op. 32” in Decatur, GA (June 2009), and The Globe Saxophone Quartet premiered his “Quartet for Saxophones, Op. 37” at the World Saxophone Congress XVI in St. Andrews, Scotland (July 2012).  The U.S premiere of the Quartet was given by the “10th Floor Project” at Georgia State University at the National Association of Composers-USA Conference in November 2014. The DeKalb Symphony Orchestra premiered his “Berceuse & Tango for oboe, alto saxophone & orchestra, Op. 38” on April 28, 2015.

Dr. Anderson is a Professor Emeritus of Music from Georgia State University’s Perimeter College (formerly DeKalb College and Georgia Perimeter College) in Clarkston, Ga, where he taught piano, composition and music theory. He was also the Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts at GPC from 1996-2002.  The Shenandoah University Alumni Association awarded Dr. Anderson the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award-Lifetime Achievement.

After coming to Georgia in 1976, Dr. Anderson has been an active member of many music organizations, including the Georgia Music Teachers Association. He served as the GMTA president from 1986 to 1988, vice president for program 1979-82, and he served as the chairman of the GMTA Student Composition Contest and the GMTA/MTNA Commissioning Program from 1979 to 1999.  He held a similar position as composition chair for the Southern Division of MTNA, 1988-1990.

From 1979 to 1981, he was also the chairman of the piano division of the Georgia Music Educators Association. Other offices held have included vice president for programs for the Georgia Association of Music Theorists and a board member of the Atlanta Music Club Scholarship Committee and its Vice President in charge of concerts, 1986-88.

Currently, he is a member of The Recording Academy®, National Association of Composers-USA and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Many of Dr. Anderson’s compositions are published and receive numerous performances in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Anderson is the president of ACA Digital Recording, Inc. and is the producer of “The Atlanta Music Scene,” heard weekly over Atlanta’s WABE-FM 90.1. He also produces the “Spivey Soiree” (September-November) and is one of the recording engineers for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra broadcast recordings heard weekly (February-July) on Atlanta’s WABE-FM 90.1, statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting and nationally on American Public Media’s “Performance Today” and “SymphonyCast.” As a recording engineer and producer, Dr. Anderson’s recording work has been favorably reviewed in Fanfare, American Record Guide, The Atlanta Audio Society Newsletter, Atlanta 30306 and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  He won the 1990 National Public Radio Lucien Wulsin Award for the Best National Performance-Small Ensemble for his recording of the King’s Singers at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall.  During the Atlanta Olympics, he was the recording engineer for “Performance Today’s” CD “Spirit of ‘96.” ACA Digital Recording now has more than  127 releases of classical chamber music, solo recitals, choral works and traditional jazz being distributed nationally by Albany Music Distributors with downloads distributed through The Orchard.  The most recent release he engineered was for the vocal ensemble Chanticleer “The Gypsy in My Soul” on Chanticleer Records from a live concert given at Spivey Hall in Georgia.

Mr. Lormand served as a musician in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1958. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in clarinet performance from The Juilliard School in 1964. At Juilliard he was a clarinet student of Arthur H. Christmann and Bernard Portnoy and studied literature and materials of music under the composers Vincent Persichetti, Vittorio Giannini, and Jacob Druckman.

While still a student, he was appointed Teacher of Clarinet at Bella Shumiatcher School of Music in Mamaroneck, N.Y. While studying in New York, he taught woodwind students privately, performed with symphony orchestras in New York and New Jersey and played with a studio group in Steinway Hall, recording soundtracks for the Cannes Film Festival.

After graduation from Juilliard, Mr. Lormand was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship in the Florida State University School of Music, Tallahassee, Fla., where he received his Master of Music degree with a major in clarinet in 1965. He was a featured clarinet soloist with the State Symphony Orchestra of Florida.

In 1965, Mr. Lormand joined the music faculty at DeKalb College (now Perimeter College), where he taught woodwinds and music theory, sending his students on to transfer successfully to The Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory, Duke University, Louisiana State University, Florida State University and the Royal College of Music in London, in addition to other colleges in Georgia.

He performed regularly in the Atlanta area, including a performance as guest clarinetist with the Alard Quartet of Pennsylvania State University on the college’s Guest Artist Series and as guest artist for the Brahms Festival Concert at Emory University. He performed as guest clarinet soloist and recitalist in New York, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi and Georgia. He conducted woodwind clinics and adjudicated music festivals throughout the Southeast. He was the organizer and conductor of the DeKalb College Woodwind Ensemble, giving numerous concerts at local elementary schools and musical organizations in the community. In 1977-1978, he was conductor of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, and in 1980, he organized and conducted the North DeKalb Symphony, Dunwoody.

In the summertime, he pursued his hobby, sailing. In 1977 he sailed his 28-foot sailboat singlehandedly, nonstop, from Fernandina Beach, Fla., to England, and, with his wife, wrote a book called How to Sail the Atlantic Alone, published by the David McKay Company, New York.

Mr. Lormand retired from DeKalb College as an associate professor of music in 1991.

Mitchum came to DeKalb Community College (now Perimeter College) in the fall of 1969. He taught Music Theory, Music Appreciation and provided applied music instruction in lower brass instruments.

He conducted the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra from 1971 through 1977 and also directed the DeKalb Wind Ensemble from 1987 to 1993.

He frequently performed with the Sounding Brass in and around Atlanta.

Mitchum published several articles in state and national magazines and was a member of multiple professional organizations.

Waschek established the Music Department and the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra at DeKalb Community College (now Perimeter College) in 1964. He served as the chairman of the Fine Arts Division and head of the Music Department from 1964 to 1971, and he conducted the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra from 1964 to 1977. He taught Music History and Music Appreciation, provided applied instruction in strings and directed the String Ensemble.

After retiring from DeKalb College in 1987, Dr. Waschek joined the music faculty of Emory University, where he taught Music History and Ethnomusicology. When he retired from Emory University, Dr. Waschek moved to Lacey, Wash., where he assists in the selection of artists for The St. Martin’s Abby Concert Series and is a member of the Academic Committee of St. Martin’s University.