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Eve de Castro-Robinson
1956 - Present (70 years)
Eve de Castro-Robinson is a New Zealand composer, professor and graphic designer. Her compositions include orchestral, vocal, chamber and electroacoustic works. She studied at the University of Auckland, where in 1991 she became the first person to receive a DMus from the University. She is Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Auckland.
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Jen Hofer
1971 - Present (55 years)
Jen Hofer is an American poet, translator, and interpreter. Awards Hofer won the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, for the poem Negro Marfil/Ivory Black. The PEN Award judges refer to Hofer's translation of Negro Marfil/Ivory Black as a work that "articulates writing as a gesture hovering between binaries, bodies, languages, modes of perception, cultures...[and is] reflexively about translation.
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Rena Matsui
1991 - Present (35 years)
is a Japanese actress, singer, and novelist. Matsui is a former member of the Japanese idol girl groups SKE48 and Nogizaka46. As a member of the former, she also participated in the main lineup of AKB48's singles. As an actress, she has played roles in numerous films and television series, including Kamen Rider Build the Movie: Be the One and the 99th NHK asadora Manpuku.
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Sayumi Michishige
1989 - Present (37 years)
Sayumi Michishige is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She is a former sixth-generation member and former leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Following the departure of fifth-generation member Risa Niigaki on October 12, 2013, Michishige held the longest tenure of any member in the group's history even after her graduation. She went on to hold this record until surpassed by ninth-generation members Mizuki Fukumura and Erina Ikuta in December 2022.
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Carita Holmström
1954 - Present (72 years)
Carita Elisabeth Holmström is a Finnish pianist, singer and songwriter. She has written and played jazz and classical music during her career. She also had a duo, Carita & Marianne, with Marianne "Maru" Nyman. She represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song "Keep Me Warm", finishing 13th.
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Gillian Brown
1937 - Present (89 years)
Gillian D. Brown is a British linguist. She is known for her expertise on discourse analysis. She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, presenting the thesis "Aspects of a phonology of Lumasaaba".
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Ashley Putnam
1952 - Present (74 years)
Ashley Putnam is an American soprano from New York City. Her professional singing career began in 1976 and has spanned over 30 years. Early life and career Ashley Putnam began her music career playing the flute. Her mother was an amateur singer and was a regular soloist at the church where she also sang in the choir. The young Ashley began playing the flute and attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts in the summers during high school. Upon graduation from high school, Ashley enrolled at the University of Michigan School of Music as a flute major. There she sang in the university choirs and realized she had vocal potential when she was given solos in choir.
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Sinéad Lohan
1971 - Present (55 years)
Sinéad Lohan is an Irish singer and songwriter. Background A native of Cork, her song "Sailing By" appeared on the compilation A Woman's Heart 2. Music career In 1991 Lohan began playing regular gigs at The Lobby, a music venue in Cork, and soon thereafter began recording her first album, Who Do You Think I Am, produced by Declan Sinnott. She has released two albums, Who Do You Think I Am in 1995, which scored several radio hits in Ireland, and No Mermaid in 1998, which has been rated 4/5 stars at AllMusic. No Mermaid was released by Interscope Records after a bidding war between several major labels.
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Lisbet Holtedahl
1946 - Present (80 years)
Lisbet Holtedahl is a Danish-born Norwegian social anthropologist and film producer. Biography Holtedahl was born in Copenhagen to dentist Stig Oscar Therkelsen and Lizzie Jacobsen. In 1967 she married professor of medicine, Knut Arne Holtedahl. She graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Tromsø in 1973, and as dr. philos. in 1987. She also received film education at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. She was appointed professor at the University of Tromsø from 1992, and has also collaborated with the French institutions, and . Her research objects have been villages in Northern Norway and societies in Cameroon, often with focus on women's role in the society.
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Martha Callison Horst
1967 - Present (59 years)
Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by Earplay, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble, Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Composers Consortium, and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V. Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis. She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. Furthermore, she serves as an Academic Senator representing the College of Fine Arts.
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Carola Grindea
1914 - 2009 (95 years)
Carola Grindea was a Romanian-born British pianist and piano teacher who established the European Piano Teachers Association and the International Society for Study of Tension in Performance . She taught at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and later the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and developed the Grindea Technique to encourage a balance though not relaxed body posture to eliminate muscular tension and better the performer's technique.
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Sulamita Aronovsky
1929 - Present (97 years)
Sulamita Aronovsky was a Lithuanian-born British classical pianist and piano teacher who spent her formative years in Moscow and Soviet-occupied Lithuania, moving to London in 1971. Aronovsky was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 5 May 1929. Her teachers included Lev Barenboim, Abram Schatzkes, Grigory Ginsburg and Alexander Goldenweiser. An experienced Juror of International Competitions, she founded the London International Piano Competition in 1991.
Go to ProfileEva Tessler, aka Eva Zorrilla Tessler, is a Mexican-American dancer, director, choreographer, and writer who co-founded the Latina Dance Project in Tucson, Arizona. Her work with LDP and the Borderlands Theater have served to create centers of creative expression for Latina/o artists in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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Simin Tander
1980 - Present (46 years)
Simin Tander is a German jazz musician and composer. Biography Born in Cologne, Tander is the daughter of an Afghan journalist father, who died when she was a child, and a German teacher mother. She was raised in Cologne and her older sister Mina Tander became an actress. As Tander finished high school, she was very close to getting a board contract as pop singer. During her vocal training with an opera singer, she realized that she was more into vocal improvisation than the Classical singing. She attended piano lessons and founded her own band. From 2002, she studied jazz singing at the Conservatory ArtEZ in the Netherlands.
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Zenobia Powell Perry
1908 - 2004 (96 years)
Zenobia Powell Perry was an American composer, professor and civil rights activist. She taught in a number of historically black colleges and universities and composed in a style that writer Jeannie Gayle Pool called "music with clear, classic melodies." Her work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Detroit Symphony and West Virginia University Band and Orchestra.
Go to ProfileCheryl Phillips is a data journalist and professor. Career Between 2002 and 2014, she worked for the Seattle Times. In 2004, Phillips was part of a team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for their reporting on the TSA. Phillips was on the team that gathered and organized the data for the Seattle Times when they were awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News Reporting, one in 2010, for a story that covered the shooting deaths of four police officers, and the other in 2015 for their detailed coverage of the Steelhead Haven neighborhood landslide. While working at the Seattle Times, Phillip...
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Lena Neudauer
1984 - Present (42 years)
Lena Neudauer is a German violinist. Life Born in Munich, Neudauer started playing the violin at the age of 3. She first took lessons with Helge Thelen and later with Sonja Korkeala. At the age of 11, she attended the Mozarteum University Salzburg and studied with Thomas Zehetmair and finally with Christoph Poppen. Already at the age of 15, Neudauer won the 4th International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in Augsburg in 1999 . In 2013 she was a member of the jury at the 8th edition of the same competition.
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Christine Schornsheim
1959 - Present (67 years)
Christine Schornsheim, married name Christine Engelmayr , is a German harpsichordist and pianist. Life and career Schornsheim attended the from 1969 to 1976 and studied piano at the local Berlin University of the Arts until 1982. From 1982 to 1983 she was solo répétiteur at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. She participated in master classes given by Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, Johann Sonnleitner and Andreas Staier. She made her debut in 1994 as a song accompanist to Peter Schreier also on the fortepiano.
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Elaine Barkin
1932 - 2023 (91 years)
Elaine "Ray" Barkin née Radoff was an American composer, writer, and educator. Early life Elaine Radoff was born in The Bronx, New York City, lived in the Amalgamated Houses, attended Bronx High School of Science, Third Street Music School Settlement, and Queens College , where she studied composition and theory with Karol Rathaus, Sol Berkowitz, Leo Kraft, and Saul Novack. At Brandeis University , her mentors in composition and theory were Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Seymour Shifrin. In the Summer of 1955 she worked with Boris Blacher at Tanglewood and then in 1956 and 19...
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Monte Hill Davis
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
Monte Hill Davis was an American classical pianist. Concert career Davis toured and performed in Europe, Brazil, Peru, Balzano, Italy , Geneva, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. Davis won first prize in the International Piano Competition in Munich in 1955. She won second place in the 1953 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Davis also performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Pops Orchestra directed by Arthur Fiedler, the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Howard Mitchell, and the Boston Pops.
Go to ProfileSvitlana Krakovska is a Ukrainian climate scientist and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . She is an applied climatologist who introduced climate models to Ukraine.
Go to ProfileUrsula Jan Cheer is a New Zealand law academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Canterbury. Academic career After growing up in Christchurch, New Zealand and doing an undergraduate at University of Canterbury and practising privately, Cheer worked in government in Wellington, first at the Justice Department and then the Office of the Prime Minister. She then moved to London to work at the Law Commission, before returning to the University of Canterbury as a full professor, and later Dean.
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Donna Uchizono
1955 - Present (71 years)
Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer. Life and career Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company based in New York City. A Guggenheim Fellow and United States Artist awardee, Donna Uchizono has received many awards and grants for her work including both National Endowment for the Arts Company Project Grants and Fellowships , MAP Fund , Alpert Award, "Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award, Jerome Foundation , National Performance Network Commission and Touring support Creative Capital, both National Dance Project Commission...
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Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury
1989 - Present (37 years)
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury is an Indian Bengali singer. She rose to fame with the release of 'Tumi Asbe Bole' & 'Jagarane Jay Bibhabaree' from the Bengali film Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona in 2011. She has been a prominent singer in Bengali films since 2007. Besides films, she also worked for several solo albums with her band Somlata & the Aces. Apart from being a singer, she works as a guest lecturer of Psychology in Asutosh College, Kolkata.
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Patricia Bishop
1940 - 2011 (71 years)
Patricia Alison "Pat" Bishop TC was a Trinidadian educator, music director, artist and cultural icon. She was one of the first women to arrange for steelbands and was the recipient of the Trinity Cross, the highest of the National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago.
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JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
1951 - Present (75 years)
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a professor of Media Arts & Technology and of Music. A composer and researcher specializing in multimodal interaction, she is the Creator and Director of the AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute and the Creator and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kuchera-Morin initiated and was Chief Scientist of the University of California Digital Media Innovation Program from 1998 to 2003.
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Mary Kim Joh
1904 - 2005 (101 years)
Mary C. Kim Joh , also known as Che Sik Cho, was a Korean-American music composer, academic and medical research scientist. Joh is best known for writing "School Bell" in 1945. This children's song is taught to pre-school students in South Korea.
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Kate Fagan
1973 - Present (53 years)
Kate Fagan is an Australian poet, musician and academic. Education Fagan attended James Ruse Agricultural High School. She came second in the state in the 1990 New South Wales Higher School Certificate, distinguishing herself in mathematics, modern history, agriculture and English. Initially studying arts/law at university, her academic interests began to focus on literary culture.
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Rumbi Katedza
1974 - Present (52 years)
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974. Early life and education She did her Primary and Secondary Education in Harare, Zimbabwe. Katedza graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from McGill University, Canada in 1995. In 2008 Katedza received the Chevening Scholarship that enabled her to further her studies in film. She also holds a MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, London University.
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Elisabeth Chojnacka
1939 - 2017 (78 years)
Elisabeth Chojnacka was a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music. Biography Chojnacka earned a degree from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 1962, after which she moved to Paris, where she studied with Aimee Wiele. She presented the premiere performances of many works for harpsichord, both solo as well as with ensemble and/or electronics. Over 80 composers dedicated works to her. While she was known particularly for her performance of new music, she also played early music in her concerts, as well as in some of her recordings.
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Erni Mangold
1927 - Present (99 years)
Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions. Life Goldmann was born into a family of artists. The father was a painter, and her mother, who was likely to become a successful concert pianist, resigned to her career in favour of her family. She had piano lessons from age 4 to 14.
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Carole Terry
1948 - Present (78 years)
Carole Ruth Terry is an American organist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue. Biography Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas , Eastman School of Music , and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice. Her teachers in Stanford were Herbert Nanney , Margaret Fabrizio , and Joan Benson . In 1979, she was appointed professor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Washington in Seattle. From 2000–2003, she was Resident Organist and curator of the C. B. Fisk organ at B...
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Alice Garner
1969 - Present (57 years)
Alice Miriam Olivia Garner is an Australian actor, author, musician, teacher and historian. She is the daughter of Australian novelist and screenwriter Helen Garner and playwright, historian and actor Bill Garner.
Go to ProfileQuynh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American classical pianist based in New York City. She has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, to wide critical acclaim. For her Carnegie Recital Hall debut, the New York Concert Review commented: “Ms. Nguyen’s pianism and music making are graced with beauty and exuberance. She is a real artist; a wonderfully communicative performer. What a compendium of intellect, sophistication and taste!” Dr. Quynh Nguyen currently serves on the piano faculty of Hunter College and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York...
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Christine Correa
1955 - Present (71 years)
Christine Isobel Correa is an American jazz singer of Indian origin. Life and work Correa is from a musical family; her father Micky Correa led big bands in India. As a child she sang and played piano. In 1979, she moved to the U.S. and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where her teachers included Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri. She worked with the quintet of Frank Carlberg, in ballet music for the Battery Dance Company. She teaches at Columbia University and is the director the Maine Jazz Camp.
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Cynthia Clarey
1949 - Present (77 years)
Cynthia Clarey is an American operatic singer and educator. In opera, she has sung both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles and is often associated with the role of Carmen. Early life Clarey was born in Smithfield, Virginia. At the age of ten she moved with her family to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. As a child, Clarey sang in choirs for her school and the family's church.
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Judy Klein
1943 - Present (83 years)
Judy Klein is an American composer, music educator. She is the founder of the Computer Music Studio at New York University and served as its director in 1980's. Her music is primarily acousmatic, and includes works for the electronic medium, sound installations, music for theatre and collaborations with visual artists.
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Modesta Bor
1926 - 1998 (72 years)
Modesta Bor was a Venezuelan composer. Life and career Modesta Bor was born in Juan Griego, Isla de Margarita. She studied in Caracas with Elena Arrarte, Juan Bautista Plaza, Antonio Estévez, Maria de Lourdes Rotundo and Vicente Emilio Sojo, graduating with a degree in composition in 1959. She continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Aram Khachaturian. In 1960 she won her first National Music Prize with Sonata for viola and piano.
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C. Kay Weaver
1964 - Present (62 years)
Celia Kay Weaver is a New Zealand-based media and communication academic and academic administrator. She is Dean of Te Mata Kairangi, the School of Graduate Research at the University of Waikato. Career Weaver was a police officer in West Midlands / Birmingham in England before embarking on a BA and PhD at the University of Stirling. Her thesis examined the reception of coverage of men's domestic violence against women, using focus groups and UK television news and dramas and Hollywood films.
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Vojna Nešić
1947 - Present (79 years)
Olivera Vojna Nešić is a Serbian composer and professor at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo. Education She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Sarajevo Music Academy .
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Diane Curry
1938 - Present (88 years)
Diane Curry is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who is particularly known for her performances of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi. She was notably the mezzo-soprano soloist on the 1987 recording of Verdi's Requiem by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and conductor Robert Shaw which won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
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Monica Lynn
1964 - Present (62 years)
Monica Lynn is an American composer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Stefan Kostka, David Neumeyer and Forrest Pierce. She continued her education at the University of Missouri in Kansas City where she studied with James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying with Ben Leeds Carson, David Cope, Karlton Hester, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, Paul Nauert ...
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Cassandra Miller
1976 - Present (50 years)
Cassandra Miller is a Canadian experimental composer currently based in London, England. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of transcription of a variety of pre-existing pieces of music.
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Carmen Balthrop
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
Carmen Arlene Balthrop was an American operatic soprano from Washington, D.C. Career She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and performed on Broadway in the title role of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. She served as professor of voice at the University of Maryland.
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Glory Van Scott
1947 - Present (79 years)
Glory Van Scott is an educator, writer, actress and dancer. She is a former principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille and Talley Beatty dance companies and has performed in the United States and around the world.
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Tatyana Chudova
1944 - 2021 (77 years)
Tatyana Alexeyevna Chudova was a Russian composer. She was born in Moscow and studied at the Central Music School in Moscow and then at the Moscow Conservatory. After completing her studies, she took a teaching position at the Conservatory. On 21 June 2007, she was awarded the title of Honored Master of Arts of the Russian Federation.
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Tatjana Masurenko
2000 - Present (26 years)
Tatjana Masurenko is a German violist of Russian descent. Early life and education Masurenko was born to a Russian family of scientists and jazz musicians. Born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, she grew up in Saint Petersburg, where she also started her studies which she then continued in Germany with Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai. Encounters with Boris Pergamenschikow, György Kurtág, Brigitte Fassbaender and Herbert Blomstedt have also formed her artistic identity.
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Mary Jeanne van Appledorn
1927 - 2014 (87 years)
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn was an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Education and career Van Appledorn attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied piano and theory with Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness. She received her Bachelor of Music in 1948, her Masters of Music in 1950, and her Ph.D. in music theory from Eastman in 1966. She also completed post-doctoral studies in computer-synthesized sound at MIT in 1982. She was a member of the music faculty of Texas Tech University from 1950 until 2008. She was the Paul Whitfield Horn Pr...
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Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller
1973 - Present (53 years)
Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller was born on 13 April 1973 in Gräfelfing, near Munich, Bavaria, and is a German poet and translator. She lives and works in Augsburg. Life and work Ann grew up in a Munich suburb, where she finished school with the Abitur in 1992. After that she studied German literature and American literature and Media law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and trained as a Bookseller. After ten years of part-time work in a bookshop, which she used to build up her freelance business, she now works as a freelance translator and editor for literary and specialized texts. She st...
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Veronika Krausas
1963 - Present (63 years)
Veronika Judita Krausas is a Canadian composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography She was born in Sydney, Australia but grew up in Canada after the age of four. Her diplomas in music education and performance were completed at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. She also completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Calgary , a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Toronto , a master's degree at McGill University in Montreal , and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles , where she received the outstanding DMA in Composition award.
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