Ian Anderson is a violist, composer and arranger based in Berlin.
IAN’S music has been commissioned and performed by ANOUSHKA SHANKAR AT THE BBC PROMS, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, Komische Oper Berlin, Beethovenorchester Bonn, JORDAN RAKEI, AND JADE, and has been sounDtracked by AppleTV+ and Netflix.
NEW ALBUM
OUT 21.11.25
vocals & original album creator MOOR MOTHER
string quintet WOODEN ELEPHANT
album arrangement IAN ANDERSON
orchestra BEETHOVEN ORCHESTRA BONN
conductor DIRK KAFTAN
producer & sound engineer FRIEDRICH RÖDDING
FIRST SINGLE: THE MYTH HOLD WEIGHT
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Photo: Bartek Sadowski“extraordinarily inventive and imaginative…
an aural tour de force”
Oliver Condy, Official Apple Music iTunes review
Wooden Elephant’s LANDSCAPES, KNIVES & GLUE — Radiohead’s Kid A Recycled
“The sonic soundscapes of Radiohead meet the creative genius of Bowie’s Blackstar album.”
Record of the Day
on yllwshrk’s Pyramids from debut album I AM ALADDIN
“incredible mixtures of sound and words… expressive depth… an extremely ductile orchestral fabric.”
Giorgio Cerasoli, Il Giornale Della Musica
on Wooden Elephant’s version of Moor Mother’s Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes,
performed with Beethovenorchester Bonn and Moor Mother herself
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