Tim
Anderson became Music Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford
IL, in August 2004, the most recent chapter in a church music career spanning
more than twenty years. Outside of church music, Tim has worked professionally
as Music Director for productions by Artists' Ensemble Theater, Madison Repertory
Theatre, New American Theater, and Rockford College. Tim has also provided accompaniment
for various musical groups over the years, including Camerata Emanon, Mendelssohn
Club, Bach Chamber Choir, and Rockford Symphony Orchestra. He is a Past Dean
of the Rockford Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and currently serves
as their Treasurer/Registrar. A native of rural Northwest Illinois, Tim has taught philosophy and Spanish at several colleges in the area and currently is Instructor of Modern Languages at Kishwaukee College. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Rockford College, M.A. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College. In a so-far wildly successful bid to stay in school all his life, he is just beginning his second year of doctoral studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago in Hispanic Linguistics.