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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2451

Débria Brown

#184889

Overall Influence

1936 - 2001 (65 years)

Débria M. Brown was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. She also worked occasionally as a dramatic actress on the stage and on television.

#2452

JoAnn Turovsky

#181608

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

JoAnn Turovsky is a harp teacher in Los Angeles, California. She is an adjunct professor of harp at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, and at Colburn School of Performing Arts. She performs with the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and has recorded for numerous motion pictures and television shows as a studio musician. She also serves on the faculty at the Music Academy of the West.

#2453

Aleksandra Romanić

#187572

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Aleksandra Romaniċ was born 1958 in Zagreb into a family of musicians. She was awarded a scholarship at the age of sixteen to go to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She graduated in 1981 summa cum laude. Completing her master's degree, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to specialize with Gyorgy Sandor at the Juilliard School in New York.

#2454

Mary Beth Fielder

#186892

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Mary Beth Fielder is an American writer, director and producer of television and feature films. She served on the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts from 1994 to 2009.

#2455

Trine Dyrholm

#178461

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Trine Dyrholm is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress five times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress twice as well as six Robert Awards in her acting career.

#2456

Eve Andree Laramee

#99187

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Eve Andree Laramee is an installation artist whose works explores four primary themes: legacy of the atomic age, history of science, environment and ecology, social conditions. Her interdisciplinary artworks operate at the confluence of art and science. She is currently full professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Pace University. Laramee currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is also the founder and director of ART/MEDIA for a Nuclear Free Future.

#2457

Emma Tahmizian

#178567

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Emma Tahmizian is a Bulgarian pianist of Armenian descent. She debuted at an international level at 11, representing Bulgaria at a concert series in Moscow. She has performed and recorded internationally regularly since she won the 1977 Robert Schumann Competition.

#2458

Nell Znamierowski

#187222

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Nell Znamierowski was an American textile artist. Znamierowski was born in Amsterdam, New York. She was born Aniela Znamierowska, the only child of Waclaw & Helena Wojnar Znamierowski and graduated from the Wilbur H. Lynch High School in Amsterdam in 1949.

#2459

Marija Gluvakov

Marija Gluvakov

#185973

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Marija Gluvakov – Medenica , is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher. Education Gluvakov was born in Senta, Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia. She received her early training in music schools in Novi Kneževac, Bihać and Zemun. She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1995, as the best student of the year. She completed there, with the highest marks, her postgraduate studies in both Piano Performance and Chamber Music . Her primary teacher were Srebrenka Široki, Zorana Grbić, Miloš Ivanović and Olivera Djurdjević. She also studied with Dušan Trbojević, Arbo Valdma, Rita Kinka and with Russian pianists Dorensky and Pisarev, professors at the Moscow Conservatory.

#2460

Annerose Schmidt

#186068

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Annerose Schmidt was the professional name used by Annerose Boeck, a German pianist. She received official recognition as a concert pianist from what later became the East German state in 1948, which was the year of her twelfth birthday.

#2461

Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham

#178981

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Katharine Meyer Graham was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.

#2462

Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal

#144545

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal is an American filmmaker from Hawaii. Education Man Gyllenhaal graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film studies and received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. Man Gyllenhaal was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Paris, France where she directed an award-winning short film titled L'Entretien . Man Gyllenhaal then served as a professor at Vassar College where she was awarded tenure. While at the college, Man Gyllenhaal directed a short film as a collaboration with her students titled, Walk the Fish.

#2463

Ethel G. Hofman

Ethel G. Hofman

#145642

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ethel Greenwald Hofman is a widely syndicated Jewish American food and travel columnist, author and culinary consultant. She is a recognized authority on international Jewish foods and culture, with special emphasis on Israel and the United Kingdom.

#2464

Jadwiga Rappé

#138036

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jadwiga Rappé is a Polish operatic contralto, born in Toruń. Rappé studied Slavic philology at the University of Warsaw and voice at the Wroclaw Music Academy. In 1980 she was awarded first prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. She made her professional opera debut at the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, in 1983 and has since remained a regular artist at that theatre. She has sung leading roles with other opera houses internationally, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera House in London.

#2465

Sabine Chaouche

#178276

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sabine Chaouche is a scholar expert in the history of theatre, intellectual history and also social and economic history. Biography She studied at the University of Oxford , where she completed a DPhil in Social and Economic History and at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne where she completed a PhD in Literature and Theatre and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches . She taught French literature and theatre in Oxford and Kuala Lumpur.

#2466

Claudette Sorel

#183712

Overall Influence

1932 - 1999 (67 years)

Claudette Sorel was a French-American pianist and educator. She was an advocate of equal rights for women in the arts, and especially equal rights for women whose aspirations were to become pianists.

#2467

Kiera Duffy

#179864

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Kiera Duffy is an American opera singer born in Philadelphia. A soprano, Duffy is also an accomplished pianist. She has earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Westminster Choir College. Education When Duffy learned that Westminster Choir College's program in choral conducting was not available to undergraduates, she began to study vocal performance under professor Laura Brooks Rice, who became her mentor and continued as her voice coach after college. Duffy graduated in 2003 with a Master of Music degree in voice performance and pedagogy. She now studies with Edith Bers.

#2468

Sudha Chandran

#96076

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sudha Chandran is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and actress who appears in Indian television and films.In 1981, she hurt her leg in a road accident near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu while coming back from Madras with her parents and after some years she started performing with a prosthetic leg. She was awarded National Film Award – Special Jury Award for the Telugu film Mayuri which is based on her life at 33rd National Film Awards in 1985.

#2469

Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien

#171196

Overall Influence

1901 - 1998 (97 years)

Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien was an American mathematician, musician and poet. Early life Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts to parents who had emigrated from Ireland, O'Brien's family moved to Maine while at the age of three. She was class valedictorian when she graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine in 1917. She then attended nearby Bates College from which she graduated in 1922 with honors in both mathematics and science. Despite her science-focused majors, she also was drawn to and pursued both poetry and music.

#2470

Solenn Heussaff

#178802

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico is a Filipino actress, model and singer. She was one of the official castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown. She made it to the Final Three. In December 2010, she signed a recording contract with MCA Music, a movie contract with Regal Entertainment, and a television contract with GMA Network and GMA Artist Center.

#2471

Judith Gordon

#176757

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Judith Gordon is a concert pianist and educator. Education Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander. New York debut Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard Holland, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "… Ms. Gordon does not have the dominating technique associated with major virtuosos, but she has character and she thinks."

#2472

Natalia O'Shea

#178289

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Natalia Andreyevna O'Shea is a Russian harpist, singer-songwriter, linguist, lead singer and leader of Melnitsa , and Romanesque . Earlier she took part in the Till Eulenspiegel project , for which she was a vocalist, author and co-author of many songs.

#2473

Amy Lee

#156135

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Amy Lee is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger. She has played with a variety of musicians and singers, and is best known for being a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. Early life and education Lee was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and studied music at the University of Miami. After graduating, she moved to Atlanta.

#2474

Ashley Fure

#185667

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Ashley Fure is an American composer. She has received the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship , and her composition Bound to the Bow was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Early life Fure grew up in Marquette, Michigan, attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate, received her PhD from Harvard University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. Since 2015, Fure has been an assistant professor of music at Dartmouth College.

#2475

Sumati Mutatkar

#153074

Overall Influence

1916 - 2007 (91 years)

Sumati Mutatkar was an Indian classical music vocalist and musicologist from the Agra gharana of Hindustani classical music, and a Professor of Department of Music in University of Delhi. She was awarded the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, for lifetime achievement, the 1979 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship and the Padma Shri in 1999, by Government of India. She was also awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2001-2002.

#2476

Cynthia Phelps

#174684

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Cynthia Phelps is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician, solo artist, and orchestral musician. Phelps is currently the Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic, a position to which she was appointed in 1992.

#2477

Sharon Sweet

#178413

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Sharon Sweet is an American dramatic soprano. Sharon Sweet has appeared in leading roles in several major venues in Europe and the United States and has made notable contributions to several recordings, in particular Lohengrin, Der Freischütz, Don Giovanni, and Il Trovatore. In 1999, she accepted a full-time teaching position at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. In a column in Opera News, Sweet stated that she made the move out of frustration with the current operatic scene which emphasized physical appearance over voice. She cited her struggles with Hashimoto's syndrome, a thyr...

#2478

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

#163345

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee is a composer of contemporary classical music. Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently an invited professor of composition at Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, Korea, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two master's degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan. Her teachers included William Albright, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, and Loong-Hsing Wen. She has previously taught music at Johnson County Community College, Washburn University, Rhodes College, and the University of Mi...

#2479

Pamela Dellal

#179809

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Pamela Dellal is an American mezzo-soprano in opera and concert, a musicologist and academic teacher. She has performed classical music from the medieval Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary. She is on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, Brandeis University, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College. She is known for having translated all texts that Johann Sebastian Bach set to music.

#2480

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

#186276

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic linguist. She is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Iceland, Director of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures.

#2481

Caroline Smith

#119563

Overall Influence

Caroline L. Smith is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She is known for her works on phonology and is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

#2482

Ruth Nye

#187404

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Ruth Nye MBE is an Australian pianist and teacher, based in the United Kingdom. Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, sister of fellow pianist Ronald Farren-Price, grew up in Australia where she attended Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne.

#2483

Natalia Shakhovskaya

#170535

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Natalia Shakhovskaya , PAU, was a Soviet and Russian cellist. She studied cello at the Gnessin School of Music and later at the Moscow Conservatory under the tutorship of Semyon Kozolupov. She finished her education at the aforementioned music conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich.

#2484

Peggy Hubicki

#188021

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Margaret Olive Hubicki MBE was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music. Life Hubicki was born Margaret Mullins in Hampstead, London on 2 July 1915. Her mother was Scottish and her father English. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale, winning the gold medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and at her graduation recital in 1934 performed a sonata of her own composition.

#2485

Caroline Phillips

#171300

Overall Influence

Caroline Phillips is an Australian visual artist who has exhibited works in Australia and internationally in the areas of sculpture, and photography. Phillips' works deploy industrial and textile based materials to critique contemporary feminist aesthetics, through modes of abstraction and materiality.

#2486

Marta Lambertini

#169262

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Marta Lambertini was an Argentine composer. She was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, and studied at the Universidad Catolica Argentina with Roberto Caamano, Luis Gianneo and Gerardo Gandini, graduating in 1972. She continued her studies in electroacoustic music in Buenos Aires, at the Centro de Investigationes de la Ciudad with Francisco Kröpfl, Gerardo Gandini, José Maranzano and Gabriel Brncic.

#2487

Susan Addison

#189084

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Susan "Sue" Addison is an English performer and professor of the sackbut, tenor trombone, and other early trombones. She specializes in playing historical music using authentic instruments of the age. She was a founding member and performed as the principal trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

#2488

Cheryl Thompson

#187800

Overall Influence

Cheryl Thompson is a Canadian academic known for studying the Black beauty industry and blackface in Canada. She is an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the school of performance.

#2489

Sara Davis Buechner

#177642

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sara Davis Buechner is an American concert pianist and educator currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career Buechner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with Veronika Wolf Cohen, Reynaldo Reyes, and Mieczyslaw Münz. She graduated high school from Friends School of Baltimore in 1976 one year early. She attended the Juilliard School as a pupil of Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny and later worked with both Byron Janis and Paul Badura-Skoda. In her twenties, she won major prizes at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition , the Leeds International Piano...

#2490

Anjali Monteiro

Anjali Monteiro

#187556

Overall Influence

Anjali Monteiro is a documentary filmmaker, media educator and researcher who lives in Mumbai. She is currently Professor and Dean at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made around thirty-five documentary films on various subjects.

#2491

Isa Soares

#67820

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Isa Soares is a Brazilian-born Argentine dancer and activist involved in creating awareness of the African traditions of Argentina and fighting racism against Afro-Argentine peoples. She was one of the pioneers in developing African dance interpretation and instruction in Argentina.

#2492

Folayemi Wilson

#184529

Overall Influence

Folayemi "Fo" Debra Wilson is an American interdisciplinary artist, designer, and academic administrator. Her practice includes work as a furniture designer and maker, installation artist, muralist, and graphic designer. Wilson is the first associate dean for access and equity in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.

#2493

Mūza Rubackytė

#159882

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Mūza Rubackytė is a Lithuanian pianist, currently residing in Vilnius, Paris and Geneva. Rubackytė has been awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Lithuanian Muzes, and has been named as the National Artist of Lithuania.

#2494

Fujita Haruko

#183183

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Fujita Haruko was a Japanese pianist, teacher, music critic, and jurist. Born to a family of jurists, she became one of the leading Japanese pianists of the 1930s. After the Pacific War she turned from music to jurisprudence, becoming one of the first female students enrolled at University of Tokyo. In later life she primarily worked as an academic, music critic, and constitutional scholar.

#2495

Ewa Kupiec

#179306

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ewa Kupiec is a Polish classical pianist. In 1992 she won the ARD Music Competition in the piano/cello category. In 2005 she performed Schnittke’s First Piano Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the first performance of the concerto since 1964. Since 2011 she has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

#2496

Carlin Glynn

#182191

Overall Influence

1940 - 2023 (83 years)

Carlin Elizabeth Glynn was an American singer and actress. Most notable for her work as a theater performer, she is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance, as Mona Stangley, in the original 1978 production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She is also known for her roles in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and Peter Masterson's The Trip to Bountiful , which is based on the play if the same name, by Horton Foote. Glynn was the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

#2497

Suzanne Baker

#177783

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Suzanne Dale Baker is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist. In 1977, she became the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award, winning for the animated short film Leisure in the category Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

#2498

Lucinda Williams

#177462

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Lucinda Gayl Williams is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, Ramblin' on My Mind and Happy Woman Blues , in a traditional country and blues style that received critical praise but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her third album, Lucinda Williams, to widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter for her 1992 album Come On Come On, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Kn...

#2499

Isabelle Bril

#189295

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Isabelle Bril is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a member of LACITO specializing in morphosyntax, semantics, typology, and Austronesian languages. Biography Bril completed her agrégation in 1977, subsequently working as an English teacher between 1978 and 1993, then as Assistant Professor at Tours University between 1998 and 2001. Her doctoral degree was awarded in 1995 by Paris Diderot University for a book-length treatment of utterance structure in the Austronesian language Nêlêmwa. In 2005 she received her habilitation. She became a researcher ...

#2500

Elena Ruehr

#182412

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Elena Ruehr is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life and career Elena Ruehr's parents were a mathematician and an English professor. She grew up in Houghton, Michigan and began piano lessons at age four. She studied composition at the University of Michigan with William Bolcom and at The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti and Bernard Rands. She also studied dance and has performed with Javanese and West African ensembles. In 1991 Ruehr took a teaching position at MIT. Her compositions have been performed internationally and some have been recorded and available on media.

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