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Bruce earned his B.A.
in Music Performance in 2001, and he has been playing the drums for 23 years.
He currently teaches Junior Jazz and is on the Jazz Faculty at the Colorado
Springs Conservatory. He is also on the music faculty at Pikes Peak Community
College. Bruce is the music teacher for 1st- 11th grades at Cheyenne Mountain
Charter Academy Home School Connection: a program that provides home schoolers
with curriculum enrichment. During Marching Band season, he instructs, composes,
and arranges percussion music for the drumlines at Montezuma Cortez High School
and Pine Creek High School. For four years, he was the percussion coach for
the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony and Pikes Peak winds which included symphonic
and orchestral techniques as well as Percussion Ensemble. He founded the Bruce
Anderson Drum Circuit in 2001 which offers private lessons, clinics for jazz
and all types of percussion, summer drum camps, symposiums, freelance performances,
and community groups. Bruce has served as a professional educator, clinician,
and adjudicator at the collegiate, high school, middle school, and elementary
school levels all over Southern Colorado.
Job Experience
Professional Educator:
1996- Present: Private lessons
2002- Present: Marching Band Percussion Instructor for Montezuma-Cortez
2003-2008: Marching Band Percussion Instructor for Pine Creek High School
2004- Present: Percussion/Jazz Instructor for Colorado Springs Conservatory
2004- Present: Music Teacher (Grades 1-11) for CMCA Home School Connection
2007-Present: Percussion Instructor for Pikes Peak Community College
2004-2008: Percussion Instructor for Colorado Springs Youth Symphony
2001- 2003: Director of Percussion at Adams State College
2009: Vista Ridge High School Drum Instructor
Adjudicator:
2002-Present: Pike’s Peak Junior High Solo and Ensemble Festival
2003-Present: Pikes Peak March of Champions
2008: University of Nebraska-Ohmaha Jazz Festival
2004-2008: Jenkin’s Jazz Festival
2001-2002: Adams State Jazz Fest
2010: Falcon D#49 Middle School Solo & Ensemble, Widefield D#3 High School Solo & Ensemble
Composing and Arranging Marching Drumline Music:
2003- Present: Montezuma- Cortez High School
2003- 2008: Pine Creek High School
Clinician:
2005-2009: Guest Jazz Clinician at Cheyenne Mountain Junior High
2006- 2009: Guest Jazz Clinician at Cheyenne Mountain High School
2005- 2007: Traveling Clinician for Colorado Springs Jazz and Swing Society
2004- 2007: Guest Clinician for Holmes Middle School Jazz
2002: Adams State College Top of the Nation Honor Band Director’s Forum
2009: Yamaha Sounds of Summer with Bret Kuhn of DCI Cavaliers
2009: PPCC Day of Percussion with Valerie Naranjo of Saturday Night Live Band & Lion King on Broadway
Playing Professional:
2000-Present: Arch Hooks Entertainment: oldies, Arch’s originals, rock, and country
2007-Present: Dave Hudson Jazz Quartet: Low Key Jazz
2003-2007: Nerdbomb: 70s-Current Pop
2001: Colorado Springs Big Band: Big Band Standards