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Lisa Coleman
1960 - Present (65 years)
Lisa Kanclerz Coleman is an American musician, primarily on keyboards and piano. Coleman is known for her tenure as a member of Prince's backing band The Revolution from 1979 to 1986, as well as Wendy & Lisa, her musical partnership with fellow Revolution alum Wendy Melvoin.
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Olga Stolbova
1947 - Present (78 years)
Olga Valerevna Stolbova is a Russian and Soviet linguist, known for her work on the Chadic languages. She received her Doctor of Sciences in 1998. Stolbova is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a representative of the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics.
Go to ProfileMary Laughren is an Australian linguist. She received her PhD from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1973. Her research interests include Australian Aboriginal languages, language in education, lexicography and the semantic-syntactic interface. Laughren has played a key role in the documentation of the Warlpiri Language, with notable contributions to the understanding of song register and baby talk register. She was also the editor of the Warlpiri-English encyclopedic dictionary.
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Sarah Harmer
1970 - Present (55 years)
Sarah Lois Harmer is a Canadian singer, songwriter and environmental activist. Early life Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister started taking her to Tragically Hip concerts.
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Anne Lauber
1943 - Present (82 years)
Anne Lauber is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she has been commissioned to write works by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Music Competitions, the Canada Council, and the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec among many other groups. In 1985 she was awarded first prize for her Arabesque at the International Guitar Competition in Marl, Germany. She became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1972. In 2007 the Eastman School of Music featured her in the school's Women in Music Festival.
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Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet
1942 - 2019 (77 years)
Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet was a Spanish feminist journalist. Biography Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet was born in Figueras on 24 October 1942. She was committed to the anti-Franco struggle of the 1970s and was an activist in defense of Catalan culture. She affiliated with various political formations. In the 1990s, she was president of the European Network of Women Journalists and the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia. From 2001 to 2004, she was dean of the College of Journalists of Catalonia. She was the recipient of several awards, including the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Muriel Magenta
1932 - Present (93 years)
Muriel Magenta née Zimmerman is an American visual artist working in new media genres of computer art, installation, multimedia performance as well as video and sculpture. Magenta is Professor of Art at Arizona State University.
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Adele Addison
1925 - Present (100 years)
Adele Addison is an American lyric soprano who was a figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert. Her performances spanned a wide array of literature from the Baroque period to contemporary compositions. She is best remembered today as the singing voice for Bess in the 1959 movie, Porgy and Bess. Known for her polished and fluent tone, Addison made a desirable Baroque vocal artist. She can be heard on numerous recordings, of which her Baroque performances are perhaps her best work.
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Katherine Kelly
1979 - Present (46 years)
Katherine Sinead Kelly is an English actress and presenter, who made her TV debut in 2003, appearing on Last of the Summer Wine. Kelly rose to prominence after portraying Becky McDonald in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 2006 and 2012. For this role, Kelly won multiple awards including a National Television Award for "Best Serial Drama Performance" in 2012.
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Janis Nuckolls
1955 - Present (70 years)
Janis Nuckolls is an American anthropological linguist and professor of linguistics and English language at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She has spent many years doing field research, with a primary focus on the Amazonian Quichua people in Ecuador and their endangered language.
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Akiko Fukai
1943 - Present (82 years)
Akiko Fukai is a Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts. She received a bachelor's and a master's degree in fashion history from National University of Ochanomizu and studied at Paris-Sorbonne University.
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Margot Loyola
1918 - 2015 (97 years)
Margot Loyola Palacios was a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin America in general. Loyola was active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades. She published a large body of work dealing with musical styless, folk music and customs of all Chilean regions as well as other South American countries. She also taught music.
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Lynda Lee Kaid
1948 - 2011 (63 years)
Lynda Lee Kaid was a Professor of Telecommunication and Research Foundation Professor in the College of Journalism & Communications at the University of Florida and named by Communication Quarterly as one of the most productive scholars in the communication discipline. She authored more than 30 books and more than 200 peer reviewed articles and chapters on political communication and political advertising.
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Vani Jairam
1945 - 2023 (78 years)
Vani Jairam was an Indian playback singer in Indian cinema. She is fondly referred to as the "Meera of modern India" Vani's career started in 1971 and has spanned over five decades. She did playback for over one thousand Indian movies recording over 10,000 songs. In addition, she recorded thousands of devotionals and private albums and also participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad.
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Anaïs Mitchell
1981 - Present (44 years)
Anaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including Hadestown , Young Man in America , Child Ballads , and Anaïs Mitchell .
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Pnina Salzman
1922 - 2006 (84 years)
Pnina Salzman was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue. Salzman showed an early aptitude for the piano, and gave her first recital at the age of eight. The French pianist and teacher, Alfred Cortot, heard her play in 1932 while she was a student at Shulamit Conservatory and invited her to Paris to study. She graduated at the Ecole Normale de Musique then became a pupil of Magda Tagliaferro at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she was to win the Premier Prix de Piano in 1938, aged 16.
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Allegra Fuller Snyder
1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Allegra Fuller Snyder was an American dance ethnologist , choreographer, professor, and author specializing in dance and culture. Her research focused on dances among Native American nations, particularly the Yaqui, and on dance among several ethnic groups in Africa and Asia. She was Professor Emerita of dance ethnology from the University of California at Los Angeles .
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Nancy Allen
1954 - Present (71 years)
Nancy Allen is a harpist from the United States. The daughter of a public school music teacher in the Carmel, New York district, she won numerous international competitions starting at a young age. In 1973 she won first prize at the Fifth International Harp Competition in Israel, one of the most prestigious international harp competitions in the world. Since 1999 she has been the Principal Harpist of the New York Philharmonic, playing under music director and conductor Lorin Maazel, and in her 20-year teaching career has trained many successful students as well as serving concurrently as head of the harp departments at the Juilliard School and Aspen Music Festival and School.
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Danielle Nierenberg
1978 - Present (47 years)
Danielle J. Nierenberg is an American activist, author and journalist. In 2013, Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank: The Think Tank For Food and currently serves as its president. She founded Nourishing the Planet while working at the Worldwatch Institute.
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Nana Mizuki
1980 - Present (45 years)
Nana Kondō, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name in 1993 and made her debut as a voice actress in 1996. Her prominent roles include Hinata Hyuga in the long-running ninja series Naruto as well in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Tamao Tamamura in Shaman King 2001 and 2021, Colette Brunel in Tales of Symphonia, Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Tsubasa Kazanari in Symphogear, Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire, Tsubomi Hanasaki in Heartcatch Precure! and Ann Takamaki in Persona 5.
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Lili Chookasian
1921 - 2012 (91 years)
Lili Chookasian was an American contralto of Armenian ethnicity, who appeared with many of the world's major symphony orchestras and opera houses. She began her career in the 1940s as a concert singer but did not draw wider acclaim until she began singing opera in her late thirties. She arose as one of the world's leading contraltos during the 1960s and 1970s, and notably had a long and celebrated career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1962 through 1986. She was admired for her sonorous, focused tone as well as her excellent musicianship. She often chose, against tradition, to...
Go to ProfileDeb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright. She came to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist political theatre troupe Split Britches, which she co-founded with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Margolin has since created a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.
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Maaya Sakamoto
1980 - Present (45 years)
is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime Little Twins, and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Leila Malcal in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Jeanne d'Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, Shiki Ryōgi in The Garden of Sinners, Eto in Tokyo Ghoul, Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Cie...
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Angelika Kirchschlager
1965 - Present (60 years)
Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer. Career Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. Her first engagements were at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Graz Opera. Kirchschlager won 1st Prize together with Morenike Fadayomi in Wien's international Operncafé HArtauer-COmpetition and third prize in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition both in 1991. Her stage debut was in Graz in 1993 as Octavian .
Go to ProfileJulie Wollman is an American academic administrator. She was the 10th president of Widener University. Wollman took office in January 2016. She was previously the president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
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Julia Fischer
1983 - Present (42 years)
Julia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist. She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year. Biography Julia Fischer is of German-Slovak ancestry. Her parents met as students in Prague. Her mother is Viera Fischer . Her father, Frank-Michael Fischer, a mathematician from East Germany, also moved from Eastern Saxony to West Germany in 1972. In addition to German, Fischer is also fluent in English and French.
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Margie Holmes
1901 - Present (124 years)
Margarita Go-Singco Holmes, popularly known as Dr. Margie Holmes, is a popular psychologist specializing in sex therapy in the Philippines. Education Holmes graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1973. She was one of only seven people to graduate magna cum laude among more than two thousand who graduated that year. Holmes was adjudged "most outstanding graduate" for 1973 by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association.
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Manuela Kay
1964 - Present (61 years)
Manuela Kay is a German journalist, author and publisher. Life and career Kay worked from the first day of its founding until February 1991 as the editor and presenter of the first Berlin private Radio Station, Radio 100, including the gay-lesbian show ‘Eldoradio’. She is co-author and film producer of numerous video films on the theme of lesbian sexuality and feminist pornography.
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Lois Andison
1957 - Present (68 years)
Lois Andison is an installation artist whose mixed materials installations explore intersections of technology, geography and the body. She currently teaches sculpture and digital media at the University of Waterloo.
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Melissa Bradshaw
1901 - Present (124 years)
Melissa Bradshaw is a writer and journalist based in London. Bradshaw is known primarily for her work in music. She is the daughter of Steve Bradshaw and Jenny Richards. Education Bradshaw won an academic scholarship to Bryanston School and later attended North London Collegiate School.
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Ursula Oppens
1944 - Present (81 years)
Ursula Oppens is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family from Jewish parents who had fled Prague in 1938. She obtained a high school diploma from the Brearley School a Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College and an M.S. degree from the Juilliard School . She began early piano studies with her mother Edith Oppens, a noted piano pedagogue, and went on to study with American pianist Leonard Shure. At Juilliard she studied with Rosina Lhévinne and Felix Galimir.
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Sandra Braman
1951 - Present (74 years)
Sandra Braman is a full professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Braman's work on the macro-level effects of digital technologies and their policy implications has been supported by the United States National Science Foundation and by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Soros Foundations. Her recent work includes Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power and the edited volumes Communication Researchers and Policy-making , Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information , and The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime . In recent years, Brama...
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P. Susheela
1935 - Present (90 years)
Pulapaka Susheela , popularly known as P. Susheela, is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades and is referred to as Evergreen Nightingale of Indian cinema. She is one of the greatest and best-known playback singers in India. She has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as by the Asia Book of Records for performing a record number of songs in different Indian languages. She is also the recipient of five National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and numerous state awards. Susheela i...
Go to ProfileAngelin Chang is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program coordinates the university's chamber music program, and teaches music and law. Prior to joining Cleveland State, she was faculty at Rutgers University.
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Rie Kugimiya
1979 - Present (46 years)
is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is best known for her voice performances in anime, which include Alphonse Elric in the Fullmetal Alchemist series, Kagura in Gin Tama, and Happy in Fairy Tail and Edens Zero, and in video games, such as Haruka Sawamura in the Yakuza series. Because of her roles for characters such as Shana in Shakugan no Shana, Louise in The Familiar of Zero, Nagi Sanzenin in Hayate the Combat Butler, Taiga Aisaka in Toradora!, Aguri Madoka/Cure Ace in DokiDoki! PreCure, and Aria Holmes Kanzaki in Aria the Scarlet Ammo, some of her fans have nicknamed her the "Queen ...
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Lee Thornton
1941 - 2013 (72 years)
Lee Thornton, is an American journalist and correspondent for CBS, CNN, NPR, and professor at Howard University and the University of Maryland. She was also the first African American woman to cover the White House. She was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Anna Abulafia
1952 - Present (73 years)
Anna Brechta Sapir Abulafia, is a British academic who specialises in religious history. The main focus of her research is medieval Christian-Jewish relations within the broad context of twelfth and thirteenth-century theological and ecclesiastical developments. Since 2015, she has been the professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at University of Oxford and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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Clio Gould
1968 - Present (57 years)
Clio Gould is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 2002, she became the first woman to serve as the leader of a London orchestra , and is currently the leader of the London Sinfoniett...
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Auli Hakulinen
1941 - Present (84 years)
Auli Talvikki Hakulinen is a Finnish researcher and professor emerita. She worked as professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki from 1991 to 2006. From 2001 to 2004, she was an academy professor.
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Gayle Wald
1965 - Present (60 years)
Gayle Wald is a professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1994-95 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Martha Young-Scholten
1953 - Present (72 years)
Martha Young-Scholten is a linguist specialising in the phonology and syntax of second language acquisition . Education and career Young-Scholten obtained a master's degree in linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her PhD at the same institution, which was awarded in 1991, concerned the structure of phonology in German as a second language. She has been a Prof of SLA at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom since September 2006.
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Kaki King
1979 - Present (46 years)
Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.
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Lynne Bowker
1969 - Present (56 years)
Lynne Bowker is a Canadian linguist. She is a Professor of Translation and Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Early life and education Bowker was born in 1969. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree from the University of Ottawa before travelling to Europe to attend the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Dublin City University.
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Judith Colell
1968 - Present (57 years)
Judith Colell i Pallarès is a Catalan film director, screenwriter and producer. Since July 2021 she has been president of the Catalan Film Academy. Biography Colell was awarded a degree in art history at the University of Barcelona. Afterwards she got a certificate in film from the New York University. Since then, she has directed a number of films, including Dones, winner of the 2001 Butaca Prize for best Catalan film, and Elisa K, which was co-directed by Jordi Cadena and has been shown at film festivals across the world. This film won the Jury's Special Award at 2010s edition of the San Se...
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Bené Arnold
1935 - Present (90 years)
Bené Arnold is an American ballet dancer, she is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah.
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Oyeronke Oyewumi
1957 - Present (68 years)
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Oyěwùmí is the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award, which recognizes and honours individuals who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African studies combined with service to the Africanist community.
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Georgina Born
1955 - Present (70 years)
Georgina Emma Mary Born, is a British academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born and for her work in Henry Cow and with Lindsay Cooper. Background Born was born in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, the granddaughter of the physicist and Nobel laureate Max Born, daughter of the pharmacologist Gustav Born, and cousin of the pop singer Olivia Newton-John.
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Namie Amuro
1977 - Present (48 years)
Namie Amuro is a Japanese former singer, dancer, model, actress and entrepreneur who was active between 1992 and 2018. A leading figure of the Japanese entertainment industry since the early 1990s, Amuro is known for breaking the youthful idol stereotype of J-Pop, changing the fashion trends and lifestyle of women in Japan, her experimentation across music styles, and for her visual imagery in music videos and live performances. Due to her career longevity, resilience, professionalism, efforts behind-the-scenes in the music industry, and her way of life, she is considered a pop culture icon in Japan and Asia.
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Sarah Walker
1943 - Present (82 years)
Sarah Elizabeth Royle Walker is an English mezzo-soprano. Walker was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She studied at the Royal College of Music from 1961 to 1965, initially as a violinist and cellist, and went on to study singing with Vera Rózsa. She has appeared in numerous opera performances and is also known as a concert soloist and recitalist.
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Tabea Zimmermann
1966 - Present (59 years)
Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist who has performed internationally, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has been artist in residence of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Zimmermann founded the Arcanto Quartet, a string quartet that performed until 2016. Several composers have written music for her, including György Ligeti , and she has made her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches.
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