Claudia Anderson

CLAUDIA ANDERSON is known for her originality and brilliance as a solo and chamber music performer across the U.S. She is a founding member of the innovative flute duo ZAWA! (with Jill Felber), the summer flute intensive Passion Flute: Foundations for Creative Performing, and is principal flute with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Symphony. Currently flute faculty in Rocky Ridge Music’s summer College Intensive program, she is a member of their National Advisory Council and  Chair of the RRM Programming Innovators Circle. She has taught at the Universities of Iowa and Northern Iowa, Ithaca College and the University of California at Santa Barbara. In May 2025 she retired from a long tenure on the music faculty at Grinnell College.

Claudia’s solo project, Glass Ceilings, commissioned several high-profile women composers and flutists to write pieces for flute(s) solo and electronic media, with its originating theme of gender inequality expanded to embrace the effects of Covid-19 and racial tensions of 2020. Anderson’s own work Glass Ceilings won the NFA’s Newly Published Music Competition in 2023. She has recorded for Centaur Records, CRI, Zawa!music, and cdbaby.  Claudia and Jill Felber’s duo ZAWA! is the longest-standing professional flute duo of our time. From their first commission by Jennifer Higdon onwards, they expanded the literature, power, and expressive range of two flutes together over more than two decades.  running the edgE by Jennifer Higdon (commissioned in 1996) laid the foundation for ZAWA!’s commitment to expand this repertoire and to reflect a wealth of contemporary styles. ZAWA!’s commissions, arrangements, and programs with repertoire ever pushing boundaries have led to ZAWA! Reimagined in 2025,a new program of works for two flutes and electronic soundtracks. Follow their latest touring news at zawaflutes2.com

Claudia is a Miyazawa Artist, performing on their 50th anniversary model. She is also a member of the Pettry Piccolo Artist family, performing on a Pettry Prestige piccolo.