Anderson teaches in his private studio in Pasadena, and was recently invited to join the piano faculty of Pasadena City College. His students have won prizes at several competitions, including the Seattle International Competition, the Los Angeles International Young Musician Competition, MTNA Competitions, Enkor, the Glendale Piano Competition, the Colburn Piano Festival and the Southwestern Youth Music Festival. His students were featured with Lang Lang on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Kelly Anderson’s teachers included Stewart Gordon, Gary Amano, Carol Urban-Stivers, Palma Wolverton, and his mother. After graduating from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Music degree, Mr. Anderson was honored to be invited to join the faculty as the youngest teacher in the music department, teaching piano literature and keyboard harmony for the next four years before moving to California. He received a Master of Music degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the University of Southern California and won the department’s top award. The next year he was invited to teach keyboard harmony and piano literature courses at USC.

Anderson has received wide praise for his many compositions and arrangements. Most recently, he has been working on and publishing arrangements of hymns for various ensembles. Kelly and his wife, Sherice, also a pianist, have five children.