Performer Details
Performer Bio Synopsis
Fairview High School, established in 1960, is located in Boulder, Colorado and has an enrollment of 1,861 students. Boulder, home to the University of Colorado, is a scholarly community of 105,000 residents dedicated to education, technology, the arts and recreation. Fairview is a comprehensive four-year public high school with a rich tradition of providing students a rigorous academic program. This is accomplished under the guidance of 120 faculty members, averaging 14 years of teaching experience with 79 masters’ and 7 doctoral degrees. Fairview’s curriculum is designed to challenge the potential of each student and includes a college preparatory curriculum, an Advanced Placement level curriculum, and an IB Diploma program. Students at Fairview are accomplished academically and also excel in sports, music and the arts. The school is home to 25 varsity sports, 7 choirs, 5 bands, 3 orchestras, multiple theater productions and more than 50 clubs. Students routinely win awards and state championships in athletic, artistic and scholarly competitions. At the national level, our students have been selected as U.S. Presidential Scholars, have won titles at the Intel Science Talent Search and National History Day competitions and our school frequently has the highest number of National Merit Finalists in the State of Colorado.
The Fairview High School Orchestra program consists of 95 students across three ensembles. The Chamber Orchestra is an audition-only orchestra consisting of our top students, regularly performing masterworks by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and others. In the spring, these musicians combine with winds and percussion in the Fairview Wind Ensemble to form the Fairview Symphony Orchestra to perform symphonic repertoire. Many of our musicians are in private lessons, participate in the Boulder Suzuki Strings, Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras, and Denver Young Artists Orchestra. The Chamber Orchestra has a long history of success, with 10 separate performances at the Colorado Music Educators Association conference in its history. They consistently receive Superior ratings at the Colorado ASTA Large Group Festival, both at the regional and state levels. Most recently, Chamber Orchestra earned 3rd Place at the 2024 ASTA National Orchestra Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Fairview Orchestras also have a commitment to programming new and diverse music by underrepresented composers. They have performed works by composers such as Reena Esmail, Caroline Shaw, Joanna Marsh, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Takashi Yoshimatsu. The orchestra collaborates regularly with guest artists for clinics and workshops, with recent visits by The Koa String Quartet, violinist Alex Gonzalez of the Sphinx Virtuosi, composer Chris Pilsner, and composer Andrea Casarrubios.
Fairview High School Chamber Orchestra
Conductor's Bio
Lee Anderson is the Director of Orchestras at Fairview High School and Southern Hills Middle School in Boulder, CO. Prior to arriving in Boulder, he was the assistant director at Seven Lakes Junior High in Katy ISD and then was named head director of the newly-opened Adams Junior High in Katy ISD. Since arriving to Boulder in 2021, he has grown the middle school program from 45 to 85 and the high school program from 70 to 95, and his orchestras have received the highest ratings at the Colorado ASTA Large Group Regional and State festivals every year. Under his baton, the Fairview Chamber Orchestra was invited in 2023 to perform at the Colorado Music Educator Association conference for the 10th time in Fairview's history. Most recently, Mr. Anderson and the Fairview Chamber Orchestra performed at the 2024 National Orchestra Festival in Louisville, Kentucky and won 3rd place.
Mr. Anderson keeps an active performing and clinician schedule. As a conductor, he is the newly appointed conductor of the String Ensemble and Allegro Strings as part of Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and has conducted Honor Orchestra ensembles in Kansas (SCKMEA) and Denver Public Schools. As a violist, he performs regularly in the viola section of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and as Principal Viola of the Boulder Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as a substitute violist for the Louisville Orchestra and Houston Grand Opera.
Lee received a Bachelor of Music Education, Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance, and Master of Music in Viola Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where his principal instructors were Stephen Wyrczynski, Ed Gazouleas, and Brenda Brenner. When not in the orchestra classroom or on the performance stage, he enjoys hiking, crossword puzzles, and spending time with his wife Aspen, their dog Max, and their cat, Clara.
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