Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received nine Grammy awards and 25 Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and there have been two Emmy nominations for television programs.
- Recording
- Grammy awards10,nominations 26
- Radio recording
- George Foster Peabody Awards 2
- Television programs
- Emmy nominations 2
A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh PA, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio and engineered and produced many award-winning classical, jazz, documentary, and news programs. Since 1980 Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City. He has been a frequent lecturer and speaker for the Audio Engineering Society and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes, including the Berklee College of Music, The New England Institute of Art, McGill University, The Banff Centre, Universite de Kunst in Berlin, University of Lulea in Sweden, The New School University, University of Georgia, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Penn State University. He is a professor of recorded music with the Clive Davis Department of Recorded music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was the department's Chair from 2004- 2008.
He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES and was Chair of the 119th and 123rd AES Conventions. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and has received two AES' Board of Governors Awards. He was the President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008 - 2009.
