Christopher Anderson is Associate Professor of Sacred Music at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, where he teaches Western music history and theory, the organ in church and society, intersections of theology and music, performance practice, German romanticism and modernism.

He received his Ph.D. in Performance Practices from Duke University.

Anderson is a scholar and organist whose work has centered on early musical modernism, modern German history and philosophy, the organ’s position in Western culture, and the composer Max Reger. He has written extensively on Reger and his music in two books, Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition (Ashgate 2003) and Selected Writings of Max Reger (Routledge 2006). In addition, his many essays appear in German- and English-language journals.