Michael Alan Anderson is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester). He specializes in a wide range of issues related to sacred music from the fourteenth through the sixteenth century, with emphasis on lay devotion and saints. Anderson is the author of the book St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and a two-time winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for outstanding writing about music. He has directed the Chicago-based early music ensemble Schola Antiqua since 2008.