Douglas Anderson (Baritone)

Born: September 1952 - Oak Park, Illinois, USA

The American baritone and neurosurgeon, Douglas E. Anderson, studied Chemistry at University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his medical degree from Chicago Medical School/Finch University of Health Sciences, graduating in 1977. He completed a residency in neurological surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. He is board certified in neurological surgery.

Douglas Anderson is an accomplished baritone singer who specializes in singing J.S. Bach and other classical music. He is a long-standing member of Grace Lutheran Church and its choir. He has been a soloist in Grace Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers since 1978 and has also been a frequent soloist with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Chicago (Director: Jane Glover). He has appeared with many Chicago area ensembles and has performed several times in Evanston's Bach Week Festival.

Douglas Anderson, MD, is one of the nation’s most accomplished neurosurgeons. He joined Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood in 1983. For more than 30 years, he has helped establish Stritch School of Medicine’s department of neurological surgery as an internationally known center for education, research and patient care. He has been a full Professor since 2007. Dr. Anderson heads one of the most comprehensive and advanced neurosurgery departments in the nation. Loyola’s multidisciplinary neurosurgery team performs more than 1,000 cranial surgeries and collaborates on approximately 150 cranial-base operations per year, which places Loyola among the top five centers in the USA. He leads the department’s academic initiatives as well as its clinical and graduate medical education programs. Before being named chair, He was the department’s director of resident education, director of the spina bifida clinic and co-director of the Center for Skull Base Surgery. Dr. Anderson has performed more than 3,000 complex brain surgeries in adults and children for conditions including acoustic tumors, aneurysms, brain tumors, epilepsy, facial pain, Parkinson’s disease, trigeminal neuralgia and vascular malformations. Dr. Anderson is an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and study abstracts presented at neurosurgical meetings. In November 2016, he was appointed chair of the department of neurological surgery of Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Douglas Anderson is married to Ann, who often performs as flutist at Grace Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers. They currently lives in Oak Park, Illinois and are the parents of four adult children, all of whom have studied music.

Sources:
Programme notes of Grace Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers (May 17, 2020)
Loyola University Medical Center Website (November 2016)
Douglas Anderson profile on Facebook
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (September 2020)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Michael D. Costello

Bass

GLC-BCV [CV-1] (2020, Video): BWV 178 [1^st recording]
GLC-BCV [CV-3] (2020, Video): BWV 106
GLC-BCV [CV-4] (2020, Video): BWV 70 [1^st recording]
GLC-BCV [CV-5] (2021, Video): BWV 82
GLC-BCV [CV-6] (2021, Video): BWV 32
GLC-BCV [CV-7] (2021, Video): BWV 180
GLC-BCV [CV-8] (2021, Video): BWV 6
GLC-BCV [CV-9] (2021, Video): BWV 34
GLC-BCV [C51-1] (2021, Video): BWV 29
GLC-BCV [C51-2] (2021, Video): BWV 80 [1^st recording]
GLC-BCV [C51-3] (2021, Video): BWV 61
GLC-BCV [C51-4] (2022, Video): BWV 123
GLC-BCV [C51-5] (2022, Video): BWV 23
GLC-BCV [C51-6] (2022, Video): BWV 178 [2^nd recording]
GLC-BCV [C51-7] (2022, Video): BWV 67
GLC-BCV [C51-8] (2022, Video): BWV 172
GLC-BCV [C52-1] (2022, Video): BWV 119
GLC-BCV [C52-2] (2022, Video): BWV 129
GLC-BCV [C52-4] (2023, Video): BWV 156
GLC-BCV [C52-5] (2023, Video): BWV 26
GLC-BCV [C52-7] (2023, Video): BWV 104
GLC-BCV [C53-2] (2023, Video): BWV 109
GLC-BCV [C53-3] (2023, Video): BWV 70 [2^nd recording]
GLC-BCV [C53-6] (2024, Video): BWV 182
GLC-BCV [C54-1] (2024, Video): BWV 130
[V-1] (2015, Video): BWV 232
GLC-BCV [C52-6] (2023, Video): BWV 244
[V-2] (2017, Video): BWV 245
[V-3] (2015-2016, Audio): BWV 248/1-2,5-6

Michael D. Costello

Bass

Member of Grace Parish Choir/Bach Cantata Vespers Chorus:
GLC-BCV [CV-9] (2021, Video): BWV 34
GLC-BCV [C51-2] (2021, Video): BWV 80 [1^st recording]
GLC-BCV [C51-3] (2021, Video): BWV 61
GLC-BCV [C51-4] (2022, Video): BWV 123
GLC-BCV [C51-5] (2022, Video): BWV 23
GLC-BCV [C51-6] (2022, Video): BWV 178 [2^nd recording]
GLC-BCV [C51-7] (2022, Video): BWV 67
GLC-BCV [C51-8] (2022, Video): BWV 172
GLC-BCV [C52-1] (2022, Video): BWV 119
GLC-BCV [C52-2] (2022, Video): BWV 129
GLC-BCV [C52-3] (2022, Video): BWV 48
GLC-BCV [C52-4] (2023, Video): BWV 156
GLC-BCV [C52-5] (2023, Video): BWV 26
GLC-BCV [C52-6] (2023, Video): BWV 244
GLC-BCV [C52-7] (2023, Video): BWV 104
GLC-BCV [C53-1] (2023, Video): BWV 148
GLC-BCV [C53-2] (2023, Video): BWV 109
GLC-BCV [C53-3] (2023, Video): BWV 70 [2^nd recording]
GLC-BCV [C53-4] (2024, Video): BWV 81
GLC-BCV [C53-6] (2024, Video): BWV 182
GLC-BCV [C53-8] (2024, Video): BWV 37
GLC-BCV [C54-1] (2024, Video): BWV 130
GLC-BCV [C54-2] (2024, Video): BWV 80 [2^nd recording]
GLC-BCV [C54-3] (2024, Video): BWV 116 [Conductor: Charles P. Brown]

Links to other Sites

Douglas Anderson on Facebook
Neurosurgeon: Douglas E. Anderson, MD (Loyola Medicine)
Douglas Anderson, MD, Named Chair of Loyola's Department of Neurological Surgery (Loyola Medicine)