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Dr. Allen Anderson, associate professor of music and head of composition at UNC, has won a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Awarded only to two recipients nationwide this year, the $15,000 fellowship recognizes "mid-career composers of exceptional gifts." The award will support Anderson’s upcoming projects, including works for chorale, gamelan and wind ensembles.

Anderson, who joined the UNC faculty in 1996, has won numerous awards and commissions for his works, including recognition from the Guggenheim and Koussevitsky foundations, Chamber Music America, League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music, and BMI, an American performing rights organization.

His compositions are published by C.F. Peters and APNM (Association for the Promotion of New Music) and are available on recordings from the CRI label.

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UNC English professor Erika Lindemann received the highest honor in her field from the Conference on College Composition and Communication Thursday (March 17).

The conference, a national organization for composition teachers and researchers, presented the Exemplar Award at its annual convention in San Francisco. The award honors someone who represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching and service to the profession.

"For three decades, Erika Lindemann has been an exemplary model of the scholar, teacher and administrator in composition studies, enjoying a world-class reputation for intelligence, versatility, decency and dedication to students, colleagues and the profession itself," wrote Barbara Roswell of Goucher College, chair of the conference’s Exemplar committee, in the award citation.

Roswell called Lindemann’s book "A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers" required reading for thousands of writers and her "An Introduction to Composition Studies" "a guide for legions of graduate students, critical to the development of future faculty."

Lindemann directed the writing program in UNC’s English department for 17 years; she has been associate dean of the graduate school and interim chair of the of Romance languages department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, she won the conference’s John Gerber 20^th Century Leadership Award, the UNC Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction and a Mentoring Award from the Association of English Graduate Students.

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