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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2751

Elena Zhosul

#191185

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Elena Victorovna Zhosul is a Russian journalist, television presenter, politologist and media expert. She is a presenter of social and political talk show Do Samoj Suti and talk show for Orthodox women Zhenskaja Polovina on the first Russian public Orthodox TV channel "Spas" . From 2005 to 2010 Zhosul was a correspondent and columnist for the news agency Interfax-Religion.

#2752

Rosa María Cid López

Rosa María Cid López

#125090

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Rosa María Cid López is a Spanish academic. Specializing in the study of women and gender, she served as President of the Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres . Early years Cid López was born in 1956. In 1979, she received a license in Philosophy and Letters in the University of Oviedo. In 1986, she defended her thesis, "The cult to the emperor in Numidia of Diocletian". She earned a PhD in Geography and History at the University of Oviedo.

#2753

Elena Braslavsky

#184689

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Elena Braslavsky is a pianist of Russian birth. Since the early 1980s, Braslavsky has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire. Formerly a faculty member at the Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music, Braslavsky currently serves on the piano faculty of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

#2754

Dina Ugorskaja

#190713

Overall Influence

1973 - 2019 (46 years)

Dina Ugorskaja was a Soviet-born German pianist. Life Dina Ugorskaja was born in Leningrad and grew up in a family of musicians. Her father was the pianist Anatol Ugorski. Maja Elik , her mother, was a musicologist who was born in Prague, where she and Ugorski were studying at the time. Ugorskaja grew up in Beltsy, Moldavian SSR. Her parents had first met in 1967 when they worked together on the Soviet premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Elik, who was working for a music publisher, had been engaged to produce a Russian translation of the work's German text.

#2755

Christiane Iven

#186392

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Christiane Iven is a German lied, concert and opera singer as well as a vocal teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Career Iven was born in Hamburg as the youngest of three siblings of a North German merchant family.

#2756

Tina Guo

#190412

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Tina Guo is a Chinese-born American cellist and erhuist from San Diego. Her international career as a cellist, electric cellist, erhuist, and composer is characterized by videos featuring theatrical backdrops and elaborate costumes, a range of genres, and an improvisatory style in film, television, and video game scores.

#2757

Valjean McCarty Hessing

Valjean McCarty Hessing

#189377

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Valjean McCarty Hessing was a Choctaw painter, who worked in the Bacone flatstyle. Throughout her career, she won 9- awards for her work and was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1976. Her artworks are in collections of the Heard Museum of Phoenix, Arizona; the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma; and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian of Santa Fe, New Mexico, among others.

#2758

Susan Kempter

#189195

Overall Influence

Susan Kempter is an American violin teacher and prominent Suzuki teacher trainer who specializes in applying interdisciplinary research to music pedagogy. She is an active promoter of teaching students to play musical instruments with both physical as well as musical demands in mind, so that they can play their instruments without the pain and repetitive stress injuries which are common in the profession. She was influenced by the teaching of Paul Rolland and John Kendall. She is the director of a violin performing group, Mad About Music, in Albuquerque, NM, which exemplifies her teaching me...

#2759

Robin Anderson

#170826

Overall Influence

1948 - 2002 (54 years)

Robin Anderson was an Australian award-winning documentary filmmaker. Career Anderson was in born in Perth, Western Australia in 1950. After graduating from high school in 1967 she spent a year in Europe including 6 months in Paris. Back in Australia she studied economics at the University of Western Australia and graduated three years later with honors and a federal government scholarship to study for master's degree in sociology at the Columbia University in New York City. There she studied under Herbert J. Gans and during her time in New York she developed a greater interest in cinema and ...

#2760

Isabelle Dussauge

#147297

Overall Influence

Isabelle Dussauge is a science, technology and society researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden and former assistant professor at the Department of Thematic Studies , Linköping University, Sweden. She is also the co-founder, with Anelis Kaiser, of The NeuroGenderings Network, and acted as guest editor, again with Kaiser on the journal Neuroethics.

#2761

Helza Cameu

#190334

Overall Influence

1903 - 1995 (92 years)

Helza Cameu was a Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist, and author. Winning national competitions with her compositions, she worked as a musicologist at the National Museum, preserving indigenous music and cataloguing instruments. She also gave lectures at the National School of Music and was enrolled in the in 1946.

#2762

Margarita Fyodorova

#191821

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in 1950. She was known for her interpretations of Alexander Scriabin's work.

#2763

Joani Blank

#187336

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Joani Blank was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavors to promote sex-positive feminism. Her papers are part of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University Library.

#2764

Leandra Overmann

#191870

Overall Influence

1956 - 2012 (56 years)

Leandra Overmann, real name Jelica Overmann was a Yugoslavian-Serbian opera, song, concert and oratorio singer . Life and career Overmann was born in Belgrade . She received her first singing lessons from her mother Đurđevka Čakarević, the former prima donna of the Belgrade Opera. She also took piano lessons. She studied in Detmold and Cologne and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She made her debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Belgrade Opera.

#2765

Nina Tichman

#188977

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Nina Tichman is an American pianist. She studied at the Juilliard School in New York, which awarded her the Eduard-Steuermann-Prize for outstanding achievements, then in Europe with Alfons Kontarsky, Hans Leygraf and Wilhelm Kempff. Tichman has received numerous prizes, including at the Busoni, Casagrande, ARD, Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, European Piano Contest Bremen, and Mendelssohn competitions. Her recording of the complete works of Claude Debussy, which she also performed cyclically in New York and in Frankfurt. Works for piano and violoncello with the cellist Maria Kliegel and Beethoven's Piano Trio with the Xyrion Trio.

#2766

Mari Fitzduff

#191878

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Mari Christine Fitzduff is an Irish policy maker, writer and academic. She began her work in peacebuilding and mediation working with universities during the Northern Ireland conflict before setting up a mediation organisation in 1989. In 1990 she was a founding director of the Community Relations Council, set up to help develop and fund peace initiatives in Northern Ireland.

#2767

Anne Gamble Kennedy

#189574

Overall Influence

1920 - 2001 (81 years)

Anne Gamble Kennedy was an American classical pianist, piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. Early life Anne Lucille Gamble was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Dr. Henry Floyd Gamble and the former Nina Hortense Clinton. She was the younger of two children born to that union. She had two older step-siblings as well. She was eleven-years-old when her father was killed in a car accident in 1932. Her paternal grandmother had been born while enslaved on the Howard's Neck Plantation in Goochland County, Virginia. Her paternal grandfather, Henry...

#2768

Carlotta de Bevilacqua

#191061

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Carlotta de Bevilacqua is an Italian architect, designer and entrepreneur. She is currently President and CEO of Artemide and President of Danese Milano. Biography Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, she is mainly known for her research in contemporary lighting design.

#2769

WoongSan

#191189

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

WoongSan is a South Korean musician. She has been a leading figure in the jazz music scene in Korea and Japan for over a decade, having performed live over 500 times since her 1998 Japanese debut. She is the first Korean-born musician to perform at New York City's historic Blue Note Jazz Club and has collaborated with many other well-known jazz musicians including Benny Green, Lonnie Plaxico, Rodney Green, Conrad Herwig and Suzuki Hisatsugu. She is also well known for training Ali , a popular K-pop singer.

#2770

Mònica Terribas i Sala

#189020

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Mònica Terribas i Sala is a Spanish journalist and professor at the University Pompeu Fabra. Between 2008 and 2012 she was director of Televisió de Catalunya and the following year, councillor delegated and publisher of the Ara newspaper. Since 2 September 2013 she has directed El matí de Catalunya Ràdio.

#2771

Marta Sosińska

#191862

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Marta Sosińska-Janczewska is a Polish classical pianist. She studied at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw under Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In 1965 she was awarded 3rd prize at the VII International Chopin Piano Competition.

#2772

Erika Haase

#188822

Overall Influence

1935 - 2013 (78 years)

Erika Haase was a German classical pianist. Career Born in Darmstadt, Haase was the daughter of a violinist. At the age of seven, she received her first piano lessons. In Darmstadt, she studied with Werner Hoppstock and Hans Leygraf. In 1959, she won the Kranichstein Music Prize of the city of Darmstadt . As a soloist and chamber musician she performed with the Swedish Radio Music Academy and various Swedish orchestras. Her centre of gravity was in a strong commitment to Neue Musik. In 1960, she participated in Eduard Steuermann's summer courses. She also improved her skill with Conrad Hansen.

#2773

Maria Armoudian

#191913

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Maria Armoudian is a politics senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She is also a published author, radio broadcaster, musician, and journalist. Her three books are Lawyers Beyond Borders: Advancing International Human Rights through Local Laws and Courts; Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous Future , and Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World . Armoudian is of Armenian American descent and is the host and producer of the Scholars' Circle on KPFK. Prior to moving to New Zealand, Armoudian w...

#2774

Marilyn Neeley

#191400

Overall Influence

1937 - 2007 (70 years)

Marilyn Neeley was an American pianist. She won the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in Music award in 1963 and an Emmy Award in 1970.

#2775

Sharon Christman

#190175

Overall Influence

Sharon Christman is an American soprano and professor. She serves currently as director of the Vocal Division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC.

#2776

Barbara Lister-Sink

#187407

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Barbara Lister-Sink is an American classical pianist, music educator, and global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. Education As a child and teenager, Lister-Sink studied piano at the Preparatory School of Salem College with Margaret Meuller and Clemens Sandresky. Lister-Sink graduated with a BA in Music in 1969 from Smith College, where she studied with the American composer and pianist John Duke. After suffering from tendinitis, she worked with Edith Grosz in Amsterdam and successfully overcame her injury. In the early 1970s, Lister-Sink also became interested in incorporating the Alexander Technique into a model of well-coordinated piano technique.

#2777

Lindsay Beamish

#191318

Overall Influence

Lindsay Beamish is an American actress and professor, best known for her roles as Severin in Shortbus and Jamie in Forgetting the Girl. As of 2015, she teaches at Emerson College and graduated from UC Santa Cruz.

#2778

Aku Kadogo

#183668

Overall Influence

Aku Kadogo, born Karen Vest, is a choreographer, director, actress, and educator. She was one of the original cast members of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf , and acted in the 1990s Australian children's television series Lift Off. She has educated and performed in Australia, Senegal, Cuba, Brazil, and Hong Kong, and South Korea.

#2779

Anne Eline Riisnæs

#190869

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Anne Eline Riisnæs is a Norwegian pianist and piano pedagog. Early life Riisnæs was born in Oslo. Her mother was Eline Nygaard Riisnæs, a pianist. Riisnæs's brothers are Knut Riisnæs , a jazz saxophonist, and Odd Riisnæs , saxophonist.

#2780

Jennifer Reeder

#180697

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jennifer Reeder is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category. In 2003, she had a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. She received a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002 and a Creative Capital grant in 2015 to support the production of her first experimental feature-length film, Knives and Skin. She won a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony.

#2781

Lydia Artymiw

#161870

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Lydia Artymiw is native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an American concert pianist and Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.

#2782

Sigutė Stonytė

#190277

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Sigutė Stonytė is a Lithuanian soprano and professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Biography Ms. Sigutė Stonytė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1982 - here she studied singing with Prof. Z. Paulauskas. In 1982-1984 she also studied with vocal teacher Joana Kepenienė. In 1984 the soloist won the International Competition for Singers in Riga and a year later made her debut at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre as Tatyana in P. Tchaikovsky‘s opera “Eugene Onegin” - since then she has been performing leading soprano parts in most performances produced by the LNOBT and other companies.

#2783

Margarita Höhenrieder

#188392

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Margarita Höhenrieder is a German classical pianist and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. She has performed internationally and recorded, with a focus on chamber music. She premiered compositions which Harald Genzmer dedicated to her.

#2784

Barbara Shearer

#189835

Overall Influence

1936 - 2005 (69 years)

Barbara Shearer was an American pianist and pedagogue at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Shearer spent her childhood in the rural Midwest. She attended Carthage College for two years, then Wittenberg University in Ohio, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in music. On the advice of her teachers, she went to New York City in 1958 to study piano with Leonard Shure, whom she later followed to Zurich and Munich. A later influence was Karl Ulrich Schnabel, from whom she received valuable coaching and with whom she taught as a colleague.

#2785

Ramona Luengen

#191457

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ramona Luengen is a Canadian composer, choir conductor and educator who has received international attention for her compositions. She was born in Vancouver and received a BMus and MMus from the University of British Columbia and a DMus in composition from the University of Toronto. Luengen studied composition with Cortland Hultberg, Derek Holman and Harry Freedman and piano with Jane Coop.

#2786

Fathimath Nahula

#187633

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Fathimath Nahula is a Maldivian film director, film producer and screenwriter. Early life In 1991, Nahula joined Jamaluddin school and worked as a teacher for four years. During the time, she spends most of her time in writing and developing stories. She then penned dialogues and stories for several films and television dramas produced by Television Maldives while publishing handful of them on different platforms including newspapers and magazines. Aiming to deliver the real emotions she write on the paper, Nahula decided to pursue a career in film direction.

#2787

Anna Vinnitskaya

#178773

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Anna Vinnitskaya is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Biography Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk. She began piano lessons at age 6. From 1995 to 2001, she studied at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don with Sergei Ossipenko, then at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she studied with Evgeni Koroliov. As a soloist, she has appeared with such ensembles as the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, l'Orchestre Philharmonique...

#2788

Amy London

#190602

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Amy London is a jazz singer and educator who has appeared on Broadway and in the vocal group The Royal Bopsters. London grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She moved to Manhattan in 1980 and began teaching jazz vocals in 1984.

#2789

Eva-Maria Houben

#172765

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Eva-Maria Houben is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts and artistic organ playing with Gisbert Schneider . Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub and Ludger Maxsein .

#2790

Hirini Matunga

#180888

Overall Influence

Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Lincoln University. He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.

#2791

Luise Vosgerchian

#189427

Overall Influence

1922 - 2000 (78 years)

Luise Vosgerchian was an American concert pianist and music professor at Harvard University. Early life and education Vosgerchian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1922, the daughter of Armenian immigrants. Her mother, Araxy Kurkjian, had immediate family who perished in the Armenian genocide.Her mother died in 1998 at the age of 102, though there is little known on how close they remained. Vosgerchian signed up for piano lessons almost immediately after hearing her first piano recital. Several years later, when she prepared to play her debut recital, she noticed a misprint in the program about her name.

#2792

Kathryn Alexander

#190448

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Kathryn Alexander is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University. Early life and education Alexander was born in Texas and was involved with music from an early age. She earned a bachelor's degree at Baylor University studying flute with Helen Ann Shanley, and went on to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Maurice Sharp. While at Cleveland, she began to compose. She sought guidance from Cleveland faculty Donald Erb and Eugene O'Brien, and went on to earn a DMA in composition at the Eastman School of Music, working with Samuel Adler, Barbara Kolb, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner.

#2793

Mary Jo Bole

#122339

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mary Jo Bole , is a sculptor, printmaker, and artist-bookmaker who lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. Bole is a widely exhibited artist who has shown her works in the United States and Europe. She was a professor of art at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

#2794

Aleksandra Trajković

#190094

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Aleksandra Trajković is a Serbian pianist, Assistant Professor of Piano and Chief of the Piano Department at the University of Priština's Faculty of Arts. Education Ms. Trajković was born in Kosovska Mitrovica, SAP Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia and started her early training at the Stevan Mokranjac Music School in Pristina and continued it at the University of Pristina's Faculty of Arts, where she was a student of Professor Dunja Košanin. She graduated in 1998, and completed her postgraduate studies at the same university in the class of renowned Professor Marko Savić . Additionally, she studied w...

#2795

Sanja Stijačić

#174224

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Sanja Stijačić is a Serbian flutist and Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Pristina and University of East Sarajevo. Education Sanja Stijačić was born in Šabac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She graduated and completed her postgraduate studies with the highest marks, from the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts, where she studied with Professor Marijan Egić. Additionally, she studied in Basel, with Professor Aurèl Nicolet.

#2796

Michelle Handelman

#190747

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michelle Handelman is an American contemporary artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with live performance, multiscreen installation, photography and sound. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars, Handelman has built a body of work that explores the dark and uncomfortable spaces of queer desire. She confronts the things that provoke collective fear and denial – sexuality, death, chaos. She directed the ground-breaking feature documentary on the 1990s San Francisco lesbian S/M scene BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism, described by IndieWire as “a queer clas...

#2797

Denisse Dibós

#191660

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

María Denisse Dibós Silva is a Peruvian actress, theatrical producer, music director, art educator, dance instructor, singer, and businessperson. She is creator and director of "Preludio Asociación Cultural", with which she has produced several musicals and plays since 1997. This musicals are adaptations of Broadway originals productions with respective rights and permissions.

#2798

Milena Kitic

#182623

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Milena Kitic is a Serbian American operatic mezzo-soprano. Biography Kitic graduated from the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade. Her first professor was Andjelka Obradovic. As a child, Kitic was a competitive gymnast in her native Yugoslavia.

#2799

Maria Baptist

#189233

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Maria Baptist is a German musician and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path.

#2800

Aleksandra Žvirblytė

#184864

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Aleksandra Žvirblytė is a Lithuanian pianist. She graduated at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, completing her studies in Russian , German and Swiss Conservatories. She has performed internationally since. She was awarded with, respectively, a 2nd and a 3rd prize in the 1986 and 1991 editions of the Ciurlionis competition, and in 1999 she won the Paris' Nikolay Rubinstein competition.

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