Avril Anderson (born 10 June 1953) is an English music educator and composer. Biography Avril Anderson was born in Southsea, Hampshire, England. In 1972 she entered the Royal College of Music where she studied with Humphrey Searle and John Lambert. In 1996 she continued her studies at the New England Conservatory with David del Tredici in New York City. Anderson won the Cobbett Prize for composition, and her music has been performed in Europe, Australia and the United States. Anderson has directed educational projects, and took a position at the Royal College of Music in 2001. She is co-artistic director with her husband David Sutton-Anderson of Sounds Positive and has been Composer-in-Residence for the Young Place London Contemporary Dance School since 1990. Works Anderson has composed for orchestra, chorus, instrumental ensembles, solo instruments and voice. Selected works include: The grass is sleeping The Lone Piper Lines in the Sand Le Carillon de Cythère Discography Contemporary British Organ Music volume 2 Audio CD, 2010, ASIN: B003U4GBGA SFZ Music Spectrum 2 Prime Cuts References 1953 births 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers British music educators English classical composers Women classical composers Living people 20th-century English composers 20th-century English women musicians 21st-century English women musicians Women music educators 20th-century women composers 21st-century women composers