A former management consultant with an MBA from Columbia Business School, Anderson has made waves in the opera world coming off of his Top Prize finish at the 2018 George London Foundation Competition; First Prize award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s 2017 International Vocal Competition; 2017 Opera Index Top Prize Arthur E. Walters Memorial Award. In 2019, Anderson joined the principal roster of the Semperoper Dresden, taking on the roles of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Cosi fan Tutte), Donner (Das Rheingold), Schaunard (La bohème), Angelotti (Tosca), Marcel (Les Huguenots), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Barone Douphol (La Traviata), and more. Anderson has grabbed headlines: “Lawson Anderson is irresistible” (Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph London) as an interpreter of Mozart, particularly in the title roles of Le nozze di Figaro with Nevill Holt Opera at the grand opening of their new theater; and with the Music Academy of the West under the baton of James Conlon. Recent highlights also include a lauded interpretation of Nick Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; his debut as Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust and Colline in La Boheme; and on the concert stage as Elijah and bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Verdi’s Requiem.