Beth Anderson is a composer of new romantic music, text-sound works, and musical theater. Born in Kentucky, she studied primarily in California with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley and Larry Austin at Mills College and U.C.Davis. She is a member of Broadcast Musicians Inc. (BMI) and is the current treasurer of New York Women Composers. She lives in Brooklyn and serves on the faculty of Greenwich House Music School. She has been commissioned by the Collegium Musicum Carinthia, Darren J. Campbell and Keith Borden, the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Staten Island Symphony, the Cabrillo Music Festival, the San Francisco Conservatory's New Music Ensemble, Andrew Bolotowsky, Marlow Fisher, the University of the Redlands' New Music Ensemble, Mimi Dye, the Montclair College Dance Festival, Daniel McCusker & Dancers, and the Soho Baroque Opera Company. Ms. Anderson's publishers are Antes/Bella Music and E.M.I/Joshua Corporation/Boston Music Co., distributor. The most complete catalog of her work is probably the New York Women Composers, Inc., catalog available on-line at http://metalab.unc.edu/nywc/.