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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2501

Cecylia Barczyk

#179386

Overall Influence

Cecylia Barczyk is an American cellist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Education and early life Barczyk was born in Bytom, Poland and began studying cello at a young age. She studied at the Chopin Academy of Music , Moscow Conservatory of Music.

#2502

Ann-Mari Kornerup

#185058

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Emilie Anna Maria Kornerup née Bruzelius was a Swedish-Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery and tapestry. She produced works for decorating public buildings and churches, including the Danish Parliament and Roskilde Cathedral. Kornerup was also active as a teacher with the Haandarbejdets Fremme textile guild and the Danish School of Arts and Crafts.

#2503

Shoshana Bean

#176342

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Shoshana E. Bean is an American singer, songwriter, YouTuber, and stage actress. She has released three records and has appeared on many theater cast recordings and film soundtracks. In 2022, Bean received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Susan Young in Mr. Saturday Night.

#2504

Şirin Pancaroğlu

#133623

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Şirin Pancaroğlu is a Turkish harpist. She performs both popular-folk and classical pieces. She has premiered pieces written for her by Gerardo Dirié, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Jeeyoung Kim, Ricardo Lorenz, Hasan Uçarsu and Meliha Doguduyal. In addition, she has been expanding her repertoire by transcribing for harp from an array of musical traditions. Over the years she has collaborated in chamber music with violinist Ignace Jang, violist Tatjana Masurenko, flutist Kornelia Brandkamp, harpist Tine Rehling and soprano Ayşe Sezerman, and recently with Israeli percussionist Yinon Muallem, creating an...

#2505

Kathron Sturrock

#186513

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Kathron Sturrock is a British pianist who studied with Cyril Smith, Joan Trimble, Alfred Brendel and Rostropovich, and worked with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She is a professor at the Royal College of Music and has recorded for Hyperion, Chandos, Pickwick, Sain, Gamut, ASV, Naxos and Black Box Records. Sturrock is the artistic director of the Fibonacci Sequence. She is also the only pianist to have twice won the prize for the best accompanist at the Sofia International Opera Competition.

#2506

Marylène Dosse

#189399

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Marylène Dosse is a French-born American classical pianist. Biography Marylene Dosse was born in Domfront in Normandy, France - the only place in which her mother could find a hospital which had not been taken over by the invading German armed forces.

#2507

Tina Benko

#177844

Overall Influence

Tina Benko is an American actress and acting teacher known for her roles in film, theatre, and television acting. She has appeared in numerous productions on and off Broadway, including A Midsummer Night's Dream. In addition to her stage work, she has also appeared in several TV series, including Flesh and Bone, The Good Wife and Brotherhood, and in films such as The Adults.

#2508

Angelina Danilova

Angelina Danilova

#184800

Overall Influence

1996 - Present (30 years)

Angelina Sergeyevna Danilova is a Russian singer, model, actress and TV personality based in South Korea. She made her solo singing debut with the digital single "As You Are" on January 17, 2020. She was the 2018 recipient of the Korea Image Flower Stone Award for her work on promoting Korea to the world.

#2509

Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio

#186390

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio is an American violinist. She is assistant professor of violin and viola at the University of Nevada, Reno and served as concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony from 1994 until 2007, during which time she appeared annually as soloist with the orchestra. Her father is cellist John Sant'Ambrogio.

#2510

Steffi Scherzer

#189475

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Steffi Scherzer is a German ballet dancer, at the Berlin State Opera from 1975 to 2003, prima ballerina there from 1987, and director and instructor at the Tanz Akademie Zürich of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

#2511

Nancy Galbraith

#183549

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Nancy Galbraith is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer. She is professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon University Biography Galbraith began playing piano at the age of four. She studied music at Ohio University , West Virginia University , and Carnegie Mellon University. She now teaches composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon. She has had six works premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and has a close relationship with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, who premiered her choral works Missa Mysteriorum and Requiem. She has had works commissioned from several Latin American ensembles.

#2512

Lisa Moore

#168560

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Lisa Moore is an Australian/American internationally renowned pianist. Moore was born in Canberra, Australia, one of three children to an art historian and a prominent economist. Her early life included overseas travel, and by the age of 16, she had visited more than a dozen countries and lived in Sydney and London. Moore's development as an artist can be traced to her formative years in Canberra during the 1970s. A succession of "strange and interesting people" through her childhood included the Australian painter Charles Blackman. Moore was raised in both Australia and London . She studied ...

#2513

Lorraine Vaillancourt

Lorraine Vaillancourt

#185035

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Lorraine Vaillancourt, is a Canadian pianist and conductor living in Quebec. She was born in Arvida, Quebec and studied with Hélène Landry at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec and with Pierre Dervaux at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Vaillancourt studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and Anne-Marie de Lavilléon-Verdier; she studied ondes Martenot with Jeanne Loriod. In 1970 she returned to the University of Montreal with the intention to learn from Serge Garant.

#2514

Margaret Moncrieff

#179607

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Margaret Moncrieff was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series. Early life In 1921, Moncrieff was born as Helen Margaret Moncrieff in Edinburgh, Scotland. Moncrieff's father was Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, and her mother was Helen Moncrieff .

#2515

Laida Lertxundi

#188139

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the United States and the Basque Country. Biography Born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1981, she moved to study in the United States. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bard College in New York and an MA from the California Institute of the Arts .

#2516

Satoko Inoue

#174810

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Satoko Inoue is a Japanese musician. Inoue is a concert pianist whose performance repertoire is mainly contemporary music. Inoue is also associate professor at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

#2517

Joyce Solomon Moorman

#189495

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Joyce Solomon Moorman is an American composer and educator. Biography Moorman was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on May 11, 1946, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. She attended segregated public schools through high school. Moorman earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1968 and in 1971, a masters of arts from Rutgers University. She earned a masters of fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1975. In 1982, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University.

#2518

Lauren Wolkstein

Lauren Wolkstein

#176234

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Lauren Wolkstein is an American film director, writer, producer and editor. She is known for directing, writing, and editing the 2017 film The Strange Ones with Christopher Radcliff and serving on the directorial team for the third season of Ava DuVernay's Queen Sugar, which she followed with a producing director role in the fifth season. She is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia.

#2519

Shashwati Talukdar

#179726

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Shashwati Talukdar is an India-born academic-filmmaker based in New York City, with more than twelve films and videos to her name, and who has become well known on the international film-making stage, particularly for her documentaries on cultural identity and representation.

#2520

Frances Greer

#186202

Overall Influence

1917 - 2005 (88 years)

Frances Greer was an American soprano. A leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Opera Company, she recorded 13 albums, mostly musical operettas with RCA Victor, and made several concert appearances at Carnegie Hall. For many years she was the featured singer on CBS’s Friday evening radio program, Musicland USA.

#2521

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

#168170

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer, museum director, curator, and professor. She is living in Davis, California. She serves as the director of the C.N. Gorman Museum and teaches at University of California, Davis.

#2522

Konstantia Gourzi

#187818

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Konstantía Gourzí is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Life and studies Born in Athens, Konstantia Gourzi received her first piano lessons at the age of seven. At thirteen, she joined the conservatorium in Athens, where she studied composition and conducting as well as piano. From 1987 to 1992, she continued her studies at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. There, she founded her first ensemble attaca berlin.

#2523

Gloria Wilson Swisher

#186985

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Gloria Wilson Swisher was an American composer, music educator and pianist. She died July 23, 2023 in Edmonds, Washington. Biography Gloria Wilson Swisher was born in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle where she received a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned a Master of Music in composition and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1960. She studied composition under John Verrall, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson. She was a member of Th...

#2524

Erica Dambach

#180565

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Erica Marie Dambach is an American college soccer coach. She is the head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions women's soccer. She led Penn State to the 2015 National Championship. She is a two-time NSCAA Coach of the Year, winning the award in 2012 and 2015.

#2525

Margaret Baxtresser

Margaret Baxtresser

#171636

Overall Influence

1922 - 2005 (83 years)

Margaret Barthel Baxtresser was an internationally renowned American concert pianist. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. At age 13, she was a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. At age 28, she won the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Piano Competition. Her concert career included performing recitals and soloing with major symphony orchestras which took her to venues around the globe.

#2526

Laura L. Koenig

#150670

Overall Influence

Laura L. Koenig is an American linguist and speech scientist. She is a professor of communication sciences and disorders at Adelphi University. She conducted her thesis work at Haskins Laboratories, and continues there as a Senior Scientist working on differences in laryngeal function across normal populations and on the development of speech production in children. Web of Science reports 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with over 200 citations. Much of her current work is conducted in collaboration with Jorge C. Lucero of the University of Brasilia. She teaches courses in phonetics, ling...

#2527

Hildegard Uhrmacher

#175590

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Hildegard Uhrmacher , married name Hildegard Kronstein-Uhrmacher, is a German operatic soprano who appeared at European opera houses in coloratura soprano roles such as Mozart's Konstanze, but also in contemporary works including Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten. She was a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Her 2006 autobiography is entitled Hilde, du schaffst das.

#2528

Kristi Allik

#179170

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Kristi Allik is a Canadian music educator and composer. Biography Born Kristi Anne Allik on 6 February 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University and doctorate from the University of Southern California. She studied composition under John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Lothar Klein, Gustav Ciamaga, James Hopkins, Frederick Leseman and Milton Babbitt.

#2529

Betty Olivero

#174133

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Betty Olivero is an Israeli music educator and composer. Biography Olivero was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to parents Dora Kapon and Eli Olivero. She graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1978, where she studied with Ilona Vincze-Kraus for piano and Yizhak Sadai and Leon Schidlowsky for composition. She continued her studies at Yale University where she studied under Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and Gilbert Amy, and graduated with a Masters in Music in 1981.

#2530

Alex Mullen

#130434

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Alex Mullen is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

#2531

Katherine Stenholm

#175933

Overall Influence

1917 - 2015 (98 years)

Katherine Corne Stenholm was an American film director and the founding director of Unusual Films, the production company of Bob Jones University. Biography Katherine Corne was born and reared in Hendersonville, North Carolina. As a high school student during the Depression, she supplemented her family's income by writing movie reviews for a local newspaper. Rejecting a college scholarship to Wellesley, Corne attended the fledgling Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee, after an evangelist convinced her that a Christian young person should attend a Christian college. At BJC, she majore...

#2532

Gertrude Pitzinger

#184312

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Gertrude Pitzinger was a German contralto appearing in concert, especially singing Lieder. She taught at the music universities of Hannover and Frankfurt. Career Born in Mährisch-Schönberg, then in Austria-Hungary, Pitzinger studied in Vienna at the Musikakademie. She graduated in 1926 as music teacher. She studied singing Lieder with Julia Culp, and then moved to Reichenberg , where she performed in oratorios and in concerts. A first recital of Lieder at the Berliner Singakademie brought her wider recognition. She performed in Hans Pfitzners Von deutscher Seele. Wilhelm Furtwängler performed...

#2533

Sumi Tonooka

#182628

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Sumi Tonooka is an American jazz pianist and composer. Life She had an African-American father and a Japanese-American mother. She earned her B.A, in music from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.

#2534

Jeanne Baxtresser

#177999

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jeanne Baxtresser is an American flutist and teacher. She is most notable for her position as principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for over 15 years, she decided to play the flute when she was only nine years old, as an author , and as a professor and master teacher. Previous positions include professor of flute at the University of Montréal, The University of Toronto, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University. She received the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She has been credited with "uphol...

#2535

Hanne Varming

#173283

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Hanne Varming née Larsen was a Danish sculptor and medallist. Her works include statues of celebrities such as Victor Borge but generally depict ordinary people or even her own children. Her portraits of Queen Margrethe II can be seen on the Danish 10 and 20 crown pieces. Her representation of an old couple sitting on a bench in Copenhagen's Kultorvet is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's Hyldemoer or The Little Elder-Tree Mother.

#2536

Gesine Schröder

#180507

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gesine Catharina Magdalene Schröder is a German musicologist and music theorist. She taught music theory at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1992 and has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2012. She has lectured as a guest at universities in Europe, South America and China.

#2537

Sheryl Bailey

#185694

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sheryl Bailey is an American jazz guitarist and educator. She teaches guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Biography Bailey grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and started playing guitar at 13. At first she was primarily interested in rock music, but she discovered jazz after hearing guitarist Wes Montgomery on the radio. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and after college she taught music at Towson State University in Baltimore. In 1998, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as a performer. She released her first album, Little Misunderstood, in 1995 with George Colligan, Vince Loving, and Chris Battistone.

#2538

Édith Lejet

#183920

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Édith Lejet is a French composer and music educator. Biography Born in Paris, Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils , Henri Challan , Marcel Bitsch , Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory. She lived at the Casa Velasquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970. She began teaching harmony at the Sorbonne and then became professor at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. In 2004, she was appointed professor of composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.

#2539

Jinny Yu

#174107

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jinny Yu is a Canadian artist working primarily in the fields of painting and installation art. Life and work Jinny Yu was born in Seoul, South Korea. She immigrated to Canada in 1988, settling in Montreal. Yu studied fine arts at Dawson College, earning a degree in fine arts in 1995, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University three years later. During the mid- and late-1990s, Yu taught art at various schools in Quebec and at the American School of Paris in France. She studied at York University, earning her Master of Business Administration degree in Arts and Media Administration and Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts in 2002.

#2540

Geraldine Decker

#182019

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Geraldine Decker was an American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher who had active singing career in operas and concerts from 1971 through 2010. She was particularly active with the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Opera, and is best remembered for her annual performances in Seattle of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle from 1974 to 1987. She taught on the voice faculty of Pepperdine University.

#2541

Laura Parnes

#178281

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Laura Parnes is contemporary American artist who creates non-linear narratives that engage strategies of film and video art and blur the lines between storytelling conventions and experimentation. Her work is often episodic, references pop culture, female stereotypes, history and the anxiety of influence. She was the co-director of Momenta Art with Eric Heist and helped relaunch the not-for-profit exhibition space in New York City; at first as a nomadic space and then as a permanent space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She continued to her involvement as a Board Chair until 2011. Parnes received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

#2542

Margot Guilleaume

#181755

Overall Influence

1910 - 2004 (94 years)

Margot Guilleaume was a German operatic soprano, a member of the Hamburg State Opera. She was an academic teacher at the Musikhochschule Hamburg from 1950 to 1978, and was known beyond Germany as a singer in oratorio and concert.

#2543

Gitti Pirner

#186853

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Gitti Pirner is a German classical pianist and professor emeritus of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Biography Pirner grew up in Sonthofen. Having learned to play the piano from early childhood, she gave her first piano recital at the age of seven and Mozart's first piano concerto at the age of eight. When she was twelve, she played Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto in A major, KV 488, as part of a solo concert, and received positive press coverage from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

#2544

Laura Huertas Millán

#188969

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Laura Huertas Millán is a French artist and filmmaker. Her works have been presented in various cinema festivals, including the IFFR, FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel, Berlinale , and Locarno Film Festival. Widely shown in the contemporary art world, her artworks are part of public and private collections in Europe and the Americas.

#2545

Ludmila Ulehla

#177617

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

Ludmila Ulehla was an American composer and music educator. Biography Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. Later she studied composition under Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music and was awarded a master's degree. Ulehla took a position on the faculty of the same school in 1947, and was Chair of the Composition Department from 1972 to 1989.

#2546

Purabi Dutta

#161774

Overall Influence

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

Purabi Dutta was a Bengali female singer from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She is considered as one of the greatest exponents and an authentic singer of Nazrul Geeti . Early years Purabi Dutta was daughter of Bibhuti Dutta, the famous classical vocal maestro. Her training was initiated at home. In 1946 she was a contestant in All India Music Competition organised by Chetla Murari Smriti Sangeet Sammilini where she won the silver trophy in vocal music.

#2547

Jane Coop

#180504

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jane Austin Coop is a Canadian pianist and music pedagogue. An internationally recognized concert pianist, she has appeared as a recitalist and as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout the world. She has performed at such venues as the Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Beijing Concert Hall, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. From 1980 to 2012 she taught on the faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Music in Vancouver. In December 2012, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

#2548

Blanche Winogron

#187595

Overall Influence

1911 - 2002 (91 years)

Blanche Winogron was an American harpsichordist, pianist, virginalist, and teacher. She taught at the Mannes College of Music from 1961 to 1969, and the New England Conservatory of Music from 1968 to 1977. Her students included Peter Sykes and Wendy Redlinger. She was a member of New York Pro Musica and the Rococo Ensemble, and a founding member of the Consort of Players.

#2549

Florence Wightman

#188235

Overall Influence

Florence Wightman was an American harpist of the 20th century. She began her orchestral career in Philadelphia theaters, and then served as Principal Harp for the Cleveland Orchestra, making her the first woman to hold a principal position in the USA, though for only one season. She departed Cleveland to serve as Principal Harp for the Roxy Theater Orchestra in New York City. She later played for the NBC Radio Symphony Orchestra, and served as Principal Harp for the Metropolitan Opera, while simultaneously performing weekly solo recital programs on several national radio networks.

#2550

Kui Dong

#182644

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Kui Dong is a Chinese-American composer, musician, and teacher. She is known for her music which has often incorporated traditional Chinese music into contemporary contexts, and is currently Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. She has released two albums on the Other Minds record label: Hands Like Waves Unfold and Since When Has the Bright Moon Existed? .

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