Active as an educator, composer, and performer, Thad Anderson's duties at SU include applied percussion lessons, the Percussion Methods course, and directing the Southwestern Percussion Group. He also currently has teaching responsibilities at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs and arranges for the Longhorn Band Drumline while he completes his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree.

Thad maintains a busy performing schedule around the greater Austin community, including includes recent performances with the Austin and Waco Symphony Orchestras, as guest soloist with Conspirare, and as timpanist with the Victoria Bach Festival orchestra. He has also performed as principal percussionist with the Brass Band of Central Florida, as timpanist for the Central Florida Lyric Opera, with the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps, and as a cast member at Walt Disney World's EPCOT. As a member of Bravura Percussion, Thad has given lectures and performances at UT-Austin, TCU, Baylor, UL-Monroe, East-Central Oklahoma, UNT, and the Texas Music Educators Association convention. The ensemble has also performed with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra.

With a strong interest in contemporary American art music, Thad is privileged to have worked with prominent American composers such as George Crumb, John Corigliano, and Joan Tower. He has also been active in the commissioning of new percussion music and has been a part of premieres by Jonathan Kolm, Dan Welcher, John Corigliano, Thom Hasenpflug, and Stella Sung. He is particularly known for his arrangements and adaptations for solo percussion, percussion ensemble, and steel pan ensemble music. Universal Edition and Santa Barbara Music are currently publishing some of these projects.

Additionally, Thad is active in the Percussive Arts Society, where he has served as chair of the Collegiate Committee and as a representative on the Board of Directors. Thad completed his undergraduate work in Music Education at the University of Central Florida where he studied percussion with Professor Jeffrey M. Moore and composition with Dr. Stella Sung. He received a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Texas at Austin under Dr. Thomas Burritt.

• MM, University of Texas at Austin
• BME, University of Central Florida