The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential female people in Communications,
#2101
Karen Tanaka
#174701
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Karen Tanaka is a Japanese composer. Biography Karen Tanaka was born in Tokyo where she started piano and composition lessons as a child. After studying composition with Akira Miyoshi and piano with Nobuko Amada at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she moved to Paris in 1986 with the aid of a French Government Scholarship to study with Tristan Murail and work at IRCAM as an intern. In 1987, she was awarded the Gaudeamus International Composers Award at the International Music Week in Amsterdam. She studied with Luciano Berio in Florence in 1990–91 with funds from the Nadia Boulanger Foundation and a Japanese Government Scholarship.
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Diana Burrell
#175915
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell is an English composer and viola player. Life and career Burrell was born on 25 October 1948 in Norwich, England. Her parents were Bernard Burrell, a schoolteacher by profession who served as an assistant organist at the cathedral, and Audrey Burrell . She attended Norwich High School for Girls before receiving her bachelor's of arts degree in music at Girton College, Cambridge. She began her career as a viola player, but soon became well known for her compositions and became a full-time composer. One of her first compositions was for the 1980 St Endellion Music Festival.
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Olivia Gude
#63427
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Olivia Gude is an American artist and educator recognized for community public art mural and mosaic projects, and as the founding director of Spiral Workshops . Gude was a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was on the visual-arts writing team for the Next Generation National Core Arts Standards. She is now the Angela Gregory Paterakis Professor of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Senior Artist member of the Chicago Public Art Group and author of the book Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures.
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Dorothy Dow
#171533
Overall Influence
1920 - 2005 (85 years)
Dorothy Dow was an American classical dramatic soprano who had an active international career in concerts, operas, and recitals during the 1940s through the 1960s. After retiring from the stage in 1968, she embarked on a second career as an academic.
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Fredell Lack
#171387
Overall Influence
1922 - 2017 (95 years)
Fredell Lack was an American violinist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she was the C. W. Moores Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.
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Margaret Saunders Ott
#180039
Overall Influence
1920 - 2010 (90 years)
Margaret Saunders Ott was a distinguished American pianist and teacher. Her career included teaching positions at Lebanon Valley Conservatory , Bishop School , Washington State University , Gonzaga University , Payap University , and most notably, Whitworth College , where she taught for 25 years and was chair of the piano department.
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Anna Stella Schic
#183722
Overall Influence
1922 - 2009 (87 years)
Anna Stella Schic was a Brazilian pianist and author of a biography of composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Life Schic gave her first piano recital at the age of six. She was taught by José Kliass, a former student of Martin Krause, who was in turn trained by Franz Liszt. Later on, she studied with Marguerite Long in Paris. Schic was married to French composer Michel Philippot, and according to her daughter Sandra Lechartre, she lived in France from 1971 on.
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Nelly Ben-Or
#178672
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Nelly Nechama Ben-Or Clynes is a concert pianist and professor of music. She is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom where she has taught the piano and the Alexander technique since 1975. Ben-Or is a Holocaust survivor.
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Dorothy Morton
#175362
Overall Influence
1924 - 2008 (84 years)
Libbie McCarthy [Macarty] Conger , better known publicly by her stage name Dorothy Morton, was an American stage actress and soprano who had an active career in mainly light operas and musical theatre from the 1880s until her retirement from the stage in 1918. She also occasionally appeared on the stage in grand opera roles like Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and Marguerite in Faust, and in vaudeville. She is best remembered for her work on Broadway; including creating the role of Cleopatra in Victor Herbert's The Wizard of the Nile and portraying the title role in the United States premier...
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Susanne Mentzer
#167814
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Susanne Mentzer is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She is best known for singing trouser roles, such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and the composer in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as other music of Mozart, Strauss, Rossini, Berlioz and Mahler.
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Pía Sebastiani
#177258
Overall Influence
1925 - 2015 (90 years)
Olimpia Ana Pía Sebastiani was an Argentine pianist and composer. She studied under teachers such as Alfredo Pinto, Juan Fanelli, Georges de Lalewicz, in her hometown of Buenos Aires. In 1941, Sebastiani composed and performed a concert for piano and orchestra. She was a member of the Beethoven Conservatory. His piano concertos took her to some of the most important music halls in the world, such as Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall.
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Lina Pizzolongo
#179829
Overall Influence
1925 - 1991 (66 years)
Lina Pizzolongo was a Canadian vocal coach and concert pianist. She was married to baritone Louis Quilico and was the mother of two children Donna and Gino Quilico, also a baritone. Career She studied first at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, with Yvonne Hubert, then at the "École normale de musique" in Paris, with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. She performed as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra. She taught as an instructor first at the Montréal Conservator...
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Gwendolyn Koldofsky
#148201
Overall Influence
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Gwendolyn Koldofsky was a Canadian piano accompanist and music educator who became renowned in her field, a Professor Emerita at USC . Born Gwendolyn Williams in Bowmanville, Ontario, she studied piano with noted Danish piano teacherViggo Kihl in Toronto, with Tobias Matthay in London, as well as with Marguerite Hasselmans in Paris. She studied accompanying in London with Harold Craxton. In 1943, she married Adolph Koldofsky, a noted Canadian violinist born in London, England of Russian-Jewish parents. The pair lived in Toronto until 1944, moving to Vancouver and then to Los Angeles in 1945. ...
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Minami Takahashi
#169502
Overall Influence
1990 - Present (36 years)
is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Haikyō. Her major roles include Megumi Tadokoro in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, Midoriko in Selector Infected Wixoss, Ojou in Please Tell Me! Galko-chan, Lucoa in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Saturn in Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls and Beatrix in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.
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Ljiljana Vukajlović
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Overall Influence
Ljiljana Vukajlović is a Serbian pianist and accompanist. Education She graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy, where she also completed her postgraduate studies in Piano Performance as a student of Professor Olga Mihajlović.
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Andrea Een
#119583
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Andrea Een is a violinist, violist, Hardanger fiddler, poet, and Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College. Career Een is a founding member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. In 2002, she was awarded St. Olav's Medal by H.M. Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States. She received the Ole Bull Award, from the eponymous academy in Voss, Norway, in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1998.
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Ayşegül Sarıca
#171798
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Ayşegül Sarıca was a Turkish concert pianist, pedagogue. Life Ayşegül Sarıca was born into an Ottoman military family in Istanbul, Turkey in 1935. Ahmet İzzet Pasha , one of the last Ottoman grand viziers was her maternal grandfather. In 1955, she married Nejat Diyarbekirli and gave birth to a son named Osman and a daughter Zeynep.
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Marilyn McCoo
#141656
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.
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Paula Robison
#138840
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Paula Robison is a flute soloist and teacher. Early life and education Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V. and Naomi Robison, an actor. David Robison was a playwright and writer for film and television. Her paternal grandmother was a piano teacher, her maternal uncle the playwright Jerome Lawrence, and there were other musicians and dancers in the family. David studied in Vienna, and upon his return joined the faculty of Fisk University. There the family met the singer Paul Robeson, who became Paula's godfather.
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Violeta Dinescu
#132653
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Violeta Dinescu is a Romanian composer, pianist and academic teacher, living in Germany since 1982. Romania Born in Bucharest, Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory "Ciprian Porumbescu" in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree with distinction. She also received diplomas in the fields of Composition, Piano and Pedagogics. She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano. In 1980 she joined the Romanian Composers Union.
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Galina Pisarenko
#170251
Overall Influence
1934 - 2022 (88 years)
Galina Alekseyevna Pisarenko was a Soviet-born Russian soprano and teacher. She showed musical promise as a child, and her aunt enrolled her in the Gnessin Institute of Music, where she graduated with a diploma in piano. She later chose to study voice instead at the Moscow Conservatory with Nina Dorliak, who became her lifelong mentor. For a time, Pisarenko studied concurrently at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations; then economics, English, and Norwegian at Moscow State University and the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.
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Carroll Parrott Blue
#127320
Overall Influence
1943 - 2019 (76 years)
Carroll Parrott Blue was an American filmmaker, director and author. Based in Houston, Texas, she was part of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. She was noted for her documentary film and interactive multimedia works, particularly for her project The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing. Blue was a research professor at the University of Houston. She worked to preserve and celebrate the history of the African American community in Houston.
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Sahana Bajpaie
#142037
Overall Influence
Sahana Bajpaie is an Indian singer-songwriter and a contemporary Rabindra Sangeet vocalist in Bengali. Born in Santiniketan, by the age of three she started singing. She released her debut album Notun Kore Pabo Bole in 2007 from Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was a collection of Rabindra Sangeet. Her second album Shikawr released in 2014 with several musicians from West Bengal. Sahana's second Rabindra Sangeet album Ja Bolo Tai Bolo was released in 2015 and the latest solo album, Mon Bandhibi Kemone in 2016.
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Ida Kavafian
#144567
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Ida Kavafian is an American classical violinist and violist. Biography Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six. Her teachers included Ara Zerounian, Mischa Mischakoff, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian, the last two of which she studied under while attending the Juilliard School from 1969 to 1975. Her first major exposure came when she won the Vianna da Motta International Violin Competition in Lisbon in 1973. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1978 which led to her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall.
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Larysa Kuzmenko
#181684
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Larysa Kuzmenko is a Juno Awards-nominated Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. She currently teaches on the music faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto.
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Pina Carmirelli
#179702
Overall Influence
1914 - 1993 (79 years)
Pina Carmirelli was an Italian violinist. She started studying music and playing in public when she was very young. She was a pupil of Michelangelo Abbado, and graduated from the Milan Conservatory in violin and composition . She won the Premio Stradivari in 1937 and the Premio Paganini in 1940. She married the cellist Arturo Bonucci.
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Ajuan Mance
#113108
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Ajuan Maria Mance is an American visual artist, author, editor, and a professor of Ethnic Studies and English at Mills College in Oakland, California. She created the portrait series 1001 Black Men. Early life and education Mance was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her family moved north to Long Island, New York where she spent most of her formative years. Her parents were both educators. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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Carmen Petra Basacopol
#177179
Overall Influence
1926 - Present (100 years)
Carmen Petra Basacopol was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at the Rabat Conservatoire in Morocco in the 1970s. As a musicologist, she achieved a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1976, with a dissertation about three Romanian composers who had influenced her, George Enescu, Mihail Jora and Paul Constantinescu, composers representing essential features of Romanian music.
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Shanice
#147041
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox is an American singer-songwriter, actress and dancer. Shanice had the Billboard hit singles "I Love Your Smile" and "Silent Prayer" in 1991 and "Saving Forever for You" in 1993. In 1999, Shanice scored another hit song, "When I Close My Eyes", which peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Shanice is recognized for her coloratura soprano voice and her ability to sing in the whistle register.
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Miho Nakayama
#164571
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
is a Japanese singer and actress. She made her debut in the 1985 drama Maido Osawagase Shimasu, where her performance lead to instant stardom. Nakayama released her debut single, "C", shortly after, and finished the year with her film debut in the blockbuster Be-Bop High School. She became one of the most popular idols during its "Golden Age" in the 1980s.
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Anat Cohen
#173340
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Anat Cohen is a New York City-based jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader from Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Cohen began playing clarinet and saxophone. In 1996, she studied at the Berklee College of Music. She has also recorded with her brothers Avishai Cohen and Yuval Cohen .
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Meg Bussert
#129692
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Meg Bussert is an American actress, singer and a university professor. Early life Born in Chicago, Illinois, Bussert received her BA degree from Purchase College and her MAT from Manhattanville College.
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Constance Keene
#174554
Overall Influence
1921 - 2005 (84 years)
Constance Keene was an American pianist, who was renowned for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn, as well as Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 and Études-Tableaux, Op. 39.
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Nanette Fabray
#153185
Overall Influence
1920 - 2018 (98 years)
Nanette Fabray was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life. In the mid-1950s, she served as Sid Caesar's comedic partner on Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmy Awards, and appeared with Fred Astaire in the film musical The Band Wagon. From 1979 to 1984, she played Katherine Romano, the mother of lead character Ann Romano, on the TV series One Day at a Time.
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Little Simz
#167748
Overall Influence
1994 - Present (32 years)
Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo , better known by her stage name Little Simz, is a British rapper, singer and actress. She rose to prominence with the independent release of her first three albums; A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons , Stillness in Wonderland and Grey Area , the last of which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and won the awards for Best Album at both the Ivor Novello Awards and the NME Awards.
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Isabel Aretz
#133545
Overall Influence
1909 - 2005 (96 years)
Isabel Aretz was an Argentine–Venezuelan researcher, writer, ethnomusicologist and composer. Early years Isabel Aretz-Thiele was born in Buenos Aires. She was educated at the National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts, studying pedagogy, piano with Rafael González and harmony, counterpoint and composition with Althos Palma. She earned a doctorate in music from Catholic University of Argentina in 1968.
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Eteri Andjaparidze
#182632
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Eteri Andjaparidze is a Georgian / American pianist and music professor. Early life Born on September 15, 1956, to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons from her mother. Born to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Georgia – her father, Zurab Andjaparidze , the leading tenor with the Bolshoi Opera and mother, pianist Yvetta Bachtadze, a student of Alexander Iokheles from Konstantin Igumnov’s piano lineage – Andjaparidze studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Vera Gornostaeva, a student of Heinrich Neuhaus. Her stepfather Leonid Oakley was a Georgian scientist.
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Lena
#138044
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Lena Mohan Kumar , who has performed mononymously as Lenaa and Lena, is an Indian actress and scriptwriter who appears predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Career She made her debut in Jayaraj's Sneham, which was followed by critically acclaimed Karunam. She had also established as a lead actress in the Malayalam television industry with serials like Omanathinkalpakshi, Ohari, Malayogam and Thadankalpalayam before focusing on her film career. She is also a television host and manages the YouTube Vlogging channel - Lena's Magazine. She has over 100 films to her credit in Malayalam cinema along wi...
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Caitlin Cherry
#165210
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
Caitlin Cherry is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator. Early life and education Caitlin Cherry was born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. Cherry received her MFA degree from Columbia University in 2012; and her BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. She also participated in the Yale University Summer School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut in 2009.
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Moon Kyungwon
#127447
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Moon Kyungwon is a Seoul-based artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and Ph.D in Visual Communication from Yonsei University, South Korea. Moon held her solo exhibition at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2004. Her recent exhibitions include Poiesis of Collective Intelligence at Yamaguchi Center Arts and Media in 2013 and A Different Similarity at BOCUM Museum, Germany in 2010. In 2012, Moon and a fellow artist, Jeon Joonho, participated in Documenta in Kassel, Germany and collectively received the 2012 Noon Award Grand Prize and 2012 Korea Artist Prize at Gwangju Biennale.
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Carola Zwick
#149056
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
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Michelle Parkerson
#145706
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Michelle Parkerson is an American filmmaker and academic. She is an assistant professor in Film and Media Arts at Temple University and has been an independent film/video maker since the 1980s, focusing particularly on feminist, LGBT, and political activism and issues.
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Lisa Popeil
#107308
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Lisa Stephanie Popeil is an American voice coach, singer, and musician. She is the creator of the trademarked Voiceworks Method and, as a voice coach, specializes in the pedagogy of vocal styles. Early life and education Popeil is the eldest daughter of inventor S. J. Popeil and Eloise Popeil . Popeil's half-brother, Ron Popeil, was an inventor and marketer.
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Sarah Chan
#101120
Overall Influence
Sarah Chan is Chancellor's Fellow in Ethics and Science Communicator in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland in 2018.
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Mariana Sîrbu
#175954
Overall Influence
1940 - 2023 (83 years)
Mariana Sîrbu , also credited as Sârbu, was a Romanian classical violinist and academic teacher, who made an international career performing and recording. She was focused on chamber music, founding the Academica String Quartet in 1968, joining the Trio di Milano in 1985, and founding the Quartetto Stradivari in 1994. She was concertmaster of I Musici from 1993 to 2003. She became professor of violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in Leipzig in 2002, gave international master classes and was juror for competitions of violin and chamber music.
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Zara Nelsova
#173103
Overall Influence
1918 - 2002 (84 years)
Zara Nelsova was a prominent cellist. Biography Nelsova was born as Sara Katznelson in Winnipeg, Canada, to parents of Jewish-Russian descent. Nelsova first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg. She eventually moved with her family to London, England, where she studied at the London Cello School with its principal, Herbert Walenn. She was heard by Sir John Barbirolli and introduced by him to Pablo Casals from whom she received additional lessons. In 1932, aged only 13, she gave a London debut recital and appeared as soloist with Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra. Durin...
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Karin Giusti
#176407
Overall Influence
Karin Giusti is an Italian American sculptor and installation artist. She splits her time between the United States and Italy. Her parents were Italian from Tuscany, she fell in love with Italy and she has established her italian studio in Abruzzo.
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Cynthia Johnston Turner
#170313
Overall Influence
Cynthia Johnston Turner is a conductor and clinician in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Canada. She was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in July 2021. Previously, she served as Director of Bands on the faculty of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia where she oversaw the entire UGA Band program, including the 440-member Redcoat Marching Band, Masters and Doctoral student in conducting, was chair of the conducting area, and artistic director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. She formerly served on the faculty of Cornell University, where she directed the Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony and chamber winds.
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Tina Gharavi
#170997
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Tina Gharavi is an Iranian-born British BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter. Early life and education Born in Tehran, her family moved to the United Kingdom, then New Zealand, and finally New Jersey, United States. Gharavi attended high school in suburban New Jersey, spending part of her life in Red Bank, close to the Jersey Shore. Gharavi initially trained as a painter at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She later attended Le Fresnoy studio National des arts contemporains, near Lille, France. She currently splits her time between Newcastle,...
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Anuradha Sriram
#103811
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 3500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films.
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