Double bassist Carl Anderson, who joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2019, has also performed with the New York Philharmonic as a Zarin Mehta Global Academy Fellow; the Cincinnati Symphony; the New World Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas; the Chicago Symphony; and at the Spoleto Festival USA. A Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2018, he also attended the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Chamber performances have included the Perlman Music Program and the 2015 New York String Seminar. As soloist with orchestra, he won the Cincinnati Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the DePaul University Concerto Competition. Anderson first studied bass with his father, Wayne Anderson, who was a bassist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He later studied with Alexander Hanna, principal bassist of the Chicago Symphony, and Paul Ellison, former principal bassist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra.