Beth Anderson’s early work was considered post-Cagian, non-academic; but, more recently, her music has become more lyrical while retaining the cut-up quality of the minimalists. Many of her compositions have been recorded by various artists on different labels. Recently she has had three CDs made of all her music (Swales & Angels on New World, Quilt Music on Albany CDs, and Peachy Keen-O on Pogus) and her "TRIO: dream in d" and "Net Work" were released on Two by Three: Music by Women from North South Recordings. "Belgian Tango", recorded by The Tango Project, is available on Newport Classics CDs. Opus One has released "Revel", with the Richmond Symphony and "Minnesota Swale" with the Slovak Symphony.

Her work has received numerous awards and grants including a Copland Fund grant to make a CD on New World, a National Endowment for the Arts grant for career development in music composition, a National Public Radio Satellite Program Development Fund grant for the development of a text-sound radio series entitled Poetry Is Music, several Meet The Composer grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Foundation For the Contemporary Performance Arts grant, a National Federation of Music Clubs’ Award of Merit for contributions to women in music, a P.S. One/Institute for Art and Urban Resources residency, a ZBS Media grant to support a residency/tape production, an Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award, a Biggerstaff Grant, and an Alumni Fellowship to support her graduate work at Mills College. She has been commisioned by Collegium Musicum Carinthia, the Minnesota Synfonia, the Staten Island Symphony, the Cabrillo Music Festival, the San Francisco Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble, the University of the Redlands’ New Music Ensemble, the Montclair College Dance Festival, Daniel McCusker & Dancers, and many others.

She served as resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers’ Forum in Bennington, Vermont and was chosen as contemporary competition composer for the 2002 Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Ms. Anderson’s publishers include Recital Music, Antes/Bella Musica, and E.M.I/Joshua Corporation/General Music. Several catalogs include her music. The most complete catalog of her work is probably the New York Women Composers, Inc., catalog.

Ms. Anderson is included in many reference works, including The New Grove Dictionary Of American Music, Het Tweede Thema, The New Grove Dictionary Of Opera, The Popular Guide To Women In Music, Contemporary Composers, and The Pandora Guide To Women Composers-British And American. An extensive interview with her is included in the archives of the American Composers Oral History Project at Yale University.