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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2401

Ilana Harris-Babou

#187825

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Ilana Harris-Babou is an American sculptor and installation artist. Harris-Babou was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her upbringing was discussed in an interview on the Amy Beecher Show in August 2019. She is currently assistant professor of art and the Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow in Art at Wesleyan University.

#2402

Beverly Sills

#182432

Overall Influence

1929 - 2007 (78 years)

Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. Although she sang a repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Puccini, Massenet and Verdi, she was especially renowned for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in live opera and recordings. Sills was largely associated with the operas of Donizetti, of which she performed and recorded many roles. Her signature roles include the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role in Massenet's Manon, Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, the three heroines in Offenbach's Les conte...

#2403

Di Wu

#180812

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Di Wu is a Chinese-American pianist. Early life and education Born into a musical family in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Di Wu entered Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music at age 12. She made her professional debut at age 14 with the Beijing Philharmonic, and thereafter toured widely to positive reviews. In 1999, Wu came to the United States to continue her music studies, first with Zenon Fishbein at the Manhattan School of Music, then with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 2000 to 2005. Wu earned a Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School under Yoheved Kapli...

#2404

Sheena Howard

#168323

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Sheena C. Howard is an African-American academic, author and producer. She is a professor of communication at Rider University. She is also the past chair of the Black Caucus and the founder of Power Your Research, and academic branding company. Howard is the recipient of the 2014 Eisner Award for her first book Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation .

#2405

Nicole Carignan

#187053

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Nicole Carignan is a Canadian composer and music educator living in Quebec. She is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Early life and education Carignan was born in Plessisville and earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal , a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal.

#2406

Margaret Brouwer

#183414

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Margaret Brouwer is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group. Biography Brouwer studied at Oberlin College, graduating in 1962, and received her master's degree from Michigan State University. Having started her musical career as a professional violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Symphony, she went on to earn her DMA in composition from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Donald Erb, Harvey Sollberger, Frederick A. Fox, and George Crumb. From 1996 to 2008 Brouwer served as head of the composition department and holder of the Vincent K.

#2407

Carmen Bradford

#187291

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Carmen Bradford is an American jazz singer. She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983 to 1991. Bradford grew up in a musical family; her grandfather is Melvin Moore, her father Bobby Bradford, and her mother Melba Joyce. She studied music formally at Huston-Tillotson College, and sang as a popular singer and for television commercials before scoring a slot opening for the Count Basie Orchestra in 1982. In 1983 Basie asked her to sing with the band, and she remained a singer with the group after Basie's death, under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. In 1991 she left the gro...

#2408

Petra Morath-Pusinelli

#176000

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Petra Morath-Pusinelli is a German organist. She studied Catholic Church Music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1984 she has been an organist at the church St. Kilian, Wiesbaden, and accompanied various choirs, including the Reger-Chor from the late 1980s and the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. She has been a lecturer at the University of Mainz since May 2006.

#2409

Chihiro Yamanaka

#177275

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Chihiro Yamanaka is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture. As of 2012, she was based in New York City. She has had more than a dozen albums as a leader, most of them being released by Verve Records.

#2410

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja

#180669

Overall Influence

1907 - 1994 (87 years)

Jorgjia Filçe-Truja was an Albanian soprano. She was one of the icons of the Albanian urban lyrical music, and one of the main contributors for the establishment of the Academy of Arts of Albania. Life She was born in Korçë, today's eastern Albania, back then still part of the Ottoman Empire on 20 January 1907. She studied in the Santa Сеcilia Conservatory in Rome during 1927–1932. She gave many concerts during the 1930s to the 1950s, becoming an icon of the urban lyrical music in Albania. Together with Tefta Tashko-Koço and Marie Kraja, she represented the avant-garde of the lyrical music in the country.

#2411

Konstanze Eickhorst

#187933

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Konstanze Eickhorst is a German pianist. Eickhorst won the IX Clara Haskil and IV Géza Anda competitions. A member of the Linos Ensemble, she has been active at an international level as a soloist and a chamber musician, and has recorded for CPO. She teaches at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

#2412

Guila Bustabo

#179274

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Guila Bustabo was a prominent American concert and recital violinist. Early life Guila Bustabo was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1916 as Teressina Bustabo. She began playing the violin at age two. At age three, she played privately for Frederick Stock, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. At age three, her family moved to Chicago so that she could study with Ray Huntington at the Chicago Musical College. Before she was five, she was studying in Chicago with Leon Samétini, a former pupil of the 19th-early 20th century virtuoso and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. By age nine, she perform...

#2413

Adria Dawn

#183570

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Adria Dawn is an American actress, filmmaker and educator. She is most known for her work on Ryan Murphy's cult hit Popular . She was nominated by Jane Magazine as "one of the gustiest women on television" for her portrayal of April Tuna. She continued working with Murphy in Nip/Tuck as Parker the Scientologist expert appearing in three episodes. Dawn's other notable television appearances include recurring roles in 7th Heaven , Felicity and NCIS as well as a supporting role in the made-for-TV movie Running Mates and appearances on Judging Amy , Boston Public , Medium , My Name Is Earl ,...

#2414

Gwendolyn Black

#188199

Overall Influence

1911 - 2005 (94 years)

Gwendolyn McDonald Black was a Canadian musician, educator and community activist. She was the first woman from New Brunswick to become an Officer in the Order of Canada. The daughter of Nathaniel McDonald, a Methodist pastor, and Statira Preble, she was born Gwendolyn McDonald in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Her father died when she was six and her mother found a job at Lasell Junior College for Girls in Auburndale, Massachusetts, where Black grew up. She became an American citizen as a result. In 1929, she returned to Canada, earning a BMus at Mount Allison's Ladies College in 1932. She returned to the College soon afterwards to teach music.

#2415

Chloë Bass

#168795

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Chloë Bass is an American conceptual artist who works in performance and social practice. Bass' work focuses on intimacy. She was a founding co-lead organizer of Arts in Bushwick from 2007 to 2011, the group that organizes Bushwick Open Studios. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY, and holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Bass was a regular contributor to Hyperallergic until 2018. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates.

#2416

Raffaella Carrà

#186196

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni , better known as Raffaella Carrà , was an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, actress and model. Considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America, between the 1970s and 1980s she became a pioneer of feminism and women's sexual freedom in television and music industry, as well as an icon of the LGBT community and fashion and design.

#2417

Veronika Hagen

#182773

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Veronika Hagen is an Austrian violist. Born in Salzburg, Hagen began to learn music at the age of six with her father, who was at that time concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. She then continued her studies at the Musik Hochschule of Salzburg with Helmut Zehetmair and at the Musik Hochschule of Hanover with Hatto Beyerle. During her studies she won several prizes, including the Budapest International Viola Competition in 1984.

#2418

Marva Griffin Carter

#175870

Overall Influence

Marva Griffin Carter is an American musician, composer, musicologist, and author. She has worked as an academic administrator and professor at Georgia State University since 1993. In 2020 the Society for American Music recognized her work with a Lifetime Achievement Award, granted "in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music."

#2419

Danae Kara

#185354

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Danae Kara is a Greek classical concert pianist, recording artist, and educator, best known for her interpretations of 20th century Greek modernist composers. Early life Danae Kara was born on 27 July 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey. She began music lessons at the age of five, in 1958, at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory with Ferdi Statzer . Having immigrated to Greece in 1966, she continued at the Athens Conservatory with the pianist Maria Cherogeorge-Sigara and composer Konstantinos Kydoniatis for theory, earning both her "Piano Soloist’s Diploma" and "Advanced Theory Diploma" with the distinction of "First Prize" and "Gold Medal of Iph.

#2420

Sultana Wahnón

#168344

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Sultana Wahnón Bensusan is a Spanish essayist and literary critic, a professor at the University of Granada specializing in literary theory and comparative literature. Academic activity Sultana Wahnón graduated in Spanish Philology in 1982, with a licentiate in the poetry of the National Literature Prize winner , a Melillan author to whom she has dedicated two books. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 1987 and published by Rodopi in 1998, consists of a description of the Spanish fascist aesthetic system and the analysis of its progressive dissolution in postwar literary criticism. Specializing ...

#2421

Anna Barbara Speckner

#184130

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Anna Barbara Speckner was a German harpsichordist, pianist, and music editor. She was married to Greek musicologist, pianist, and philosopher Thrasybulos Georgiades. Life Speckner was born in Munich, Germany on 20 October 1902. She studied piano with composer August Schmid-Lindner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1927 to 1936. She then went on to study with Dorothee Günther-Schule in Munich. From 1962 to 1968, Speckner taught harpsichord during the summer months at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 1966, she began teaching at the Orff Institute Salzburg .

#2422

Leta Hong Fincher

#74197

Overall Influence

Leta Hong Fincher is an American journalist, feminist and writer. Biography Fincher was born in British Hong Kong, to a Chinese-American mother with roots in Xiamen, Fujian, and a European-American father. She grew up in Canberra after her parents received tenures at Australian National University. Her mother, a linguist, and her father, a historian, were both Chinese scholars, and she spent a significant portion of her childhood travelling to and from China. As a child, she spoke Mandarin at home with her mother.

#2423

Martha Strongin Katz

#172374

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Martha Strongin Katz is a violist and member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches viola and chamber music. She was a founding member of the Cleveland Quartet, along with her former husband, Paul Katz , and Peter Salaff and Donald Weilerstein . From 1969 until her departure from the group in 1980, she performed more than 1,000 concerts, including appearances at the White House, the Grammy Awards, on the NBC Today Show, and in the major concert halls of five continents.

#2424

France Ellegaard

France Ellegaard

#178324

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

France Marguerite Ellegaard was a Finnish pianist and music educator, born in France to Danish parents. She was considered one of the 20th century's great concert pianists. The daughter of cyclist Thorvald Ellegaard and Karen Kirstine Nicolaysen, she was born in Paris. Ellegaard studied at the Paris Conservatory and gave her first Danish performance in Copenhagen in 1927. She performed throughout Scandinavia and in the music capitals of Europe. Following the German invasion of Denmark in 1940, she remained in Denmark and then, in 1943, went to Sweden as a political refugee. She married Finnish painter Birger Carlstedt in 1949 and became a Finnish citizen.

#2425

Elizabeth Kuti

#185242

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Elizabeth Kuti is an English actress and playwright. Life English-born Kuti graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English, and completed her MA at King's College London. She is of partial Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather, whose original surname Kipslinger was adapted to 'Kuti' to disguise its Germanic origins. In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights. In October 2004, she joined the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex.

#2426

Janetta McStay

#185276

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Janetta Mary McStay was a New Zealand concert pianist and music professor who performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras, as a solo artist and as an accompanist and chamber music associate with leading artists from around the world.

#2427

Marian Robertson Wilson

#186683

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Alice Marian Robertson Wilson was an American cellist, linguist and teacher most notable role as music editor of the eight-volume Coptic Encyclopedia. She was a daughter of Leroy Robertson and has written scholarly analyses of his works.

#2428

Jutta Brückner

#177635

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jutta Brückner is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed nine films between 1975 and 2005. Furthermore, she has written essays in film theory, film reviews and radio plays. She lives in Berlin and was Professor for narrative film at Berlin University of the Arts. She was the head of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival and is a member of multiple Film Juries and advisory committees.

#2429

Ruth Mottram

#187531

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Ruth Mottram is a British climate scientist who is a researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute. Her research considers the development of climate models and the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets in the climate system.

#2430

Eri Watanabe

#162923

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eri Watanabe, who was previously known as Eriko Watanabe, is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Hochi Film Awards for Shall We Dance?. Filmography Films Comic Magazine Crest of Betrayal Shall We Dance? Swing Girls - Sanae SuzukiMemories of Tomorrow Ichi Lady Maiko My Dad and Mr. Ito Survival Family Mary and the Witch's Flower - Banks Talking the Pictures Tezuka's Barbara Romance Doll Labyrinth of Cinema

#2431

Krysia Osostowicz

#168678

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Krysia Osostowicz FGS is a violin player who teaches at the Guildhall School of Music. She is the leader of the Dante String Quartet and principal violinist with the Endymion Ensemble. She previously played for 15 years with the Domus Piano Quartet. In 2021 she joined the Brodsky Quartet.

#2432

Debra Richtmeyer

#180369

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Debra Richtmeyer is an American classical saxophonist born June 19, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan. Richtmeyer earned her B.M.E. and M.M. at Northwestern University, where she studied with Frederick L. Hemke. She is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she has served since 1991. Prior to her appointment at the University of Illinois, she served as saxophone professor at the University of North Texas College of Music from 1981 to 1991 and at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music from 1980 to 1981.

#2433

Mariam McGlone

#184906

Overall Influence

1916 - 2008 (92 years)

Mariam McGlone was an American dancer, dance critic, and educator. Biography Born January 20, 1916, in New York City, daughter of Russian emigrant parents Abraham and Bertha Gessler Siwek, Mariam McGlone trained in classical ballet, entered Barnard College for a semester but left to join The Humphrey Wideman Company, led by Doris Humphrey and Charles Wideman and subsequently became an early member of the Martha Graham company in Manhattan. During the years leading up to World War II, she worked in Hollywood performing in various films, among them Winged Victory, and training actors and dancers.

#2434

Anne Rogers

#184313

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Anne Rogers is an English actress, dancer, and singer. Career Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool and began her stage career at the age of 15. She was in the original London production of The Boy Friend, playing the female lead of Polly Browne for nearly four years.

#2435

Yoheved Kaplinsky

#172666

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is a lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She heads the Pre-College department at Juilliard. Education She studied piano under Ilona Vincze-Kraus at the Israel Academy of Music and earned her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Irwin Freundlich. She continued her studies with Dorothy Taubman.

#2436

Katalin Nemes

#183951

Overall Influence

1915 - 1991 (76 years)

Katalin Nemes was a pianist and teacher. She was the wife of the writer and journalist György Nemes and the mother of the literary translator Anna Nemes. From the age of 10 she attended the conservatory of Debrecen as a student of Margit Halácsy. From 1932 to 1937 she attended Franz Liszt Academy of Music and was taught by Imre Stefániai, Béla Bartók and Imre Keéri-Szántó. During this period she had to play on piano in a band. After getting degree, she married György Nemes.

#2437

Denyse Thomasos

#162806

Overall Influence

1964 - 2012 (48 years)

Denyse Thomasos was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. "Hybrid Nations" is one of her most notable pieces that features Thomasos' signature use of dense thatchwork patterning and architectonic images to portray images of American superjails and traditional African weavework.

#2438

Deanna C. C. Peluso

#146120

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Deanna C. C. Peluso is an American-Canadian musician, composer, music educator, author and researcher currently residing in Honolulu, Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia. Peluso combines her academic and experiential background in music, psychology, performance art, technology and education to fuel what is called a unique style of research that focuses on how youth engage in Participatory cultures, social media and artistic and musical learning.

#2439

Dalit Warshaw

#125041

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Dalit Hadass Warshaw is a New York-based composer, pianist, thereminist. Previously on the composition and music theory faculty of Boston Conservatory, she currently serves on the composition faculty at Juilliard and CUNY-Brooklyn College. Her works have been performed by dozens of orchestral ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras , the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Y Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In April 2006, her piece After the Victory for orchestra and chorus, was premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company.

#2440

Mary Lou Fallis

#182955

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Mary Lou Fallis is a Canadian opera singer. She performs both serious opera roles and comedic shows as the character Primadonna, a satirical take on popular stereotypes of opera divas. Her recordings are listed on her personal web site.

#2441

Nina Matviienko

#133539

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Nina Mytrofanivna Matviienko was a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine. Life and career Matviienko was born on 10 October 1947 in village of Nedilyshche, Yemilchyne Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast at the time in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union . She was the fifth of eleven siblings, her mother was Antonina Ilkivna and father, Mytrofan Ustynovych. She began at a local residential school, then worked as a copyist and then a crane-operator's assistant. She completed her studies in Ukrainian philology at the Kyiv University in 1975. She had previously entered the vocal studio of the Ukrainian State Folk Choir named after Hryhory Veriovka in 1968, before becoming a soloist.

#2442

Patricia Kern

#181770

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Patricia Kern was a British mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. Early years Patricia Kern was born in Swansea, Wales, the only daughter of a master shipwright, Clifford James Kern, and Doris Hilday . Patricia started her music career as a child star in cabarets and concerts at the age of five, wearing top hats and tails. During the Great Depression, Patricia became the family's chief breadwinner when her father lost his job.

#2443

Aira Naginevičiūtė

#186948

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Aira Naginevičiūtė is a Lithuania-born, international dance artist, producer and composer. She established a contemporary dance company in 1989 called Fluidis. In 1998 she began teaching at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. To date she has developed 20+ dance productions and compositions. Some of her most acclaimed works include: Processus, Pregnant Silence Ego and Id, and The Moon Does Not Care about Barking Dogs.

#2444

Minuetta Kessler

Minuetta Kessler

#178468

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler was a Russian-born Canadian and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator. A child prodigy, she performed her first composition at a recital at the age of 5 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York City. She composed hundreds of pieces, including music for piano, violin, voice, flute, clarinet and cello, as well as for chamber ensembles. She performed all over Canada and in Boston and New York, including performances at Carnegie Hall and The Town Hall, and with the Boston Civic Symphony and the Boston Pops.

#2445

Yolanda Marculescu

Yolanda Marculescu

#182121

Overall Influence

1923 - 1992 (69 years)

Yolanda Marculescu was a Romanian American coloratura soprano and diva of the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest from 1948 to 1968. Fleeing the communist bloc, Marculescu became a naturalized American citizen in 1974. In the United States she founded the International Festival of the Art Song at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981. The festival was held biennially until her death in 1992.

#2446

Anna Rubin

#155379

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Anna Rubin is an American composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. Biography Anna Rubin studied with composers Mel Powell, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, and Paul Lansky, and graduated with a doctorate in composition from Princeton University. After completing her studies, she taught composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. She also taught at Lafayette College and in 2002 took a teaching position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

#2447

Ann McNamee

#148185

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ann Kosakowski McNamee is a music theorist, singer-songwriter and musical theater composer/lyricist based in San Francisco, California and a retired Professor Emerita of music at Swarthmore College notable for her contribution to music theory; her song writing; and her musical performances with the bands the Flying Other Brothers and Moonalice known for their cutting edge technology, particularly in the area of social media, as well as their performances at festivals such as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Nateva, Summer Camp Music Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Gathering of the Vibes; and with her band Ann Atomic during the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair.

#2448

Marilyn Shrude

#175589

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Marilyn Shrude is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist, and Distinguished Artist Professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, since 1977. Life Born in Chicago, Illinois, Shrude graduated from Alverno College and Northwestern University. Her composition instructors include Alan Stout and M. William Karlins.

#2449

Eva Enciñias

#187808

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Eva Enciñias is an American flamenco dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Eva began teaching flamenco at the age of 14 and in 1973 established a touring dance company, Ritmo Flamenco. In 1976 she started teaching Flamenco at the University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance, eventually establishing a flamenco concentration, the only such concentration in the United States. In 1987 she founded the first Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque, a festival which has continued into the present. In 1992 she founded the National Institute of Flamenco, and in 2010 founded the Tierra...

#2450

Ildikó Raimondi

Ildikó Raimondi

#186467

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ildikó Raimondi is a Hungarian-Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. She has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since 1991, and has performed leading roles internationally, especially in Mozart operas. She also works in concert and lied, including contemporary compositions. She has received Austrian awards.

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