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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2801

Miri Yampolsky

#191615

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Miri Yampolsky is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Israeli citizen. In 1994, Yampolsky won the IX José Iturbi Competition. A lecturer at the Cornell University's Department of Music, she has organised a Shostakovich Festival at Ithaca.

#2802

Carol Plantamura

#184318

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Carol Plantamura is an American soprano specializing in 17th and 20th century music. She graduated from Occidental College and was an original member of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo, under the direction of Lukas Foss. She has collaborated with such composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Vinko Globokar, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Foss, Betsy Jolas, Will Ogdon, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Erickson. Beginning in 1966, she was an original member of the improvising electronic music collective Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome, Italy.

#2803

Orit Wolf

#191479

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Orit Wolf is an Israeli pianist, composer and lecturer. Currently holds lecturer positions at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Reichman University , Israel. From the 2022 to 2023 academic year, Wolf will be artist in residence at the Technion.

#2804

Fiona Ross

#186656

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fiona Ross is a British type designer, academic and linguist. Since 2003, she has worked at the University of Reading, where she is a Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design. She has received awards such as the 2014 SoTA Typography Award and the 2018 TDC Medal.

#2805

Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld

Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld

#80079

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ruth Eldbjørg Vatvedt Fjeld is a Norwegian linguist. She is a Professor of Lexicography and Dialect Research at the University of Oslo. She obtained the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1998, with the dissertation Rimelig ut fra sakens art. Om tolkning av ubestemte adjektiv i regelgivende språk. She has been responsible for a large project on the lexicography of bokmål since 2000. She has also served as the expert adviser on language to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

#2806

Elizabeth Pennisi

#115608

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Pennisi is an American science journalist specializing in genomics, evolution, and microbiology. Life Pennisi completed a bachelor's degree in biology at Cornell University. She earned a master's degree in science writing from Boston University.

#2807

Itabari Njeri

#158071

Overall Influence

Itabari Njeri is an American journalist, novelist, and memoirist. Life Njeri was raised in Brooklyn and Harlem. She graduated from Boston University, and Columbia University with an M.S. In 1978, she joined The Miami Herald, and then The Los Angeles Times. In 1995, she was writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. She studied at Harvard University.

#2808

Frances Clark

#168748

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

Frances Oman Clark was an American pianist, pedagogue, and academic who authored, co-authored and edited many widely used piano method books, most notably The Music Tree series. Her 1955 publication, Time to Begin, introduced the concept of teaching music reading by pattern recognition, thus pioneering the "intervallic method," which "revolutionised" the teaching of music reading.

#2809

Monika Hestad

#104485

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Monika Hestad is a Norwegian industrial designer and researcher. Hestad was educated at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and received a Master of Industrial Design degree in 2002. She was awarded a doctorate from the same institution in 2008. Hestad has practiced as an industrial designer and consultant since 2001.

#2810

Mara Margaret Helmuth

#189927

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Margaret Mara Helmuth is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in music.

#2811

Jane Venis

#192161

Overall Influence

Jane Venis is a New Zealand multimedia artist, musician and writer. Venis gained a Master of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art, and then a PhD in Fine Arts from Queensland College of Art. Career Venis taught 'Music Making' night-classes in the 1980s. She is currently Professor of Creative Studies in the School of Design at Otago Polytechnic, and she teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

#2812

Nobuho Nagasawa

#154617

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Nobuho Nagasawa is a Japanese-born US-based transdisciplinary artist. Nagasawa is known for her site-specific installations involving in-depth research into the cultural history and memory, and extensive community participation. Her works were featured in international exhibitions including the Asian Art Biennial , the Sharjah Biennial , and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial . She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in Asia, Europe, and the North America. The venues include, the Royal Garden of the Prague Castle , Ludwig Museum , Rufino Tamayo Museum , Sharjah Art Museum , Alexandria Library , among others.

#2813

Kyungsun Suh

#186687

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Kyungsun Suh is a South Korean composer. Biography Kyungsun Suh was born in Seoul, Korea. She studied composition and theory at the Seoul National University, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After completing her studies she took a position teaching at Hanyang University in 1974. Her works have been performed internationally.

#2814

Ana Sánchez-Colberg

#188966

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist working internationally. She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others. She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding award in 2019, among other awards and recognitions.

#2815

Brunhilde Sonntag

#189572

Overall Influence

1936 - 2002 (66 years)

Brunhilde Sonntag was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher. Biography Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim. From 1959 to 1963 she worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Ebert School in Frankfurt and took private composition lessons from Kurt Hessenberg. From 1963 to 1969 she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with and Gottfried von Einem, and took a teaching position in the Department of Music of the Justus Liebig ...

#2816

Roberta Floris

#192053

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Roberta Floris is an Italian journalist, television presenter and former model. Biography Roberta Floris was born on April 27, 1979, in Cagliari , to father Giorgio Floris and mother Caterina Placco and is the third of three daughters: one of whom is called Rosanna. Not to be confused with the homonymous cousin, Roberta Floris , and both are the granddaughters of the politician and trade unionist Mario Floris.

#2817

Carmen Moral

#184357

Overall Influence

Carmen Moral is an orchestra conductor and also teaches conducting at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University and a master's degree and a DEA in Musicology from the Sorbonne . She studied conducting with Ionel Perlea of New York City's Metropolitan and with Laszlo Halasz, one of the founders of the City Center Opera of New York.

#2818

Iryna Kyrylina

#183515

Overall Influence

1953 - 2017 (64 years)

Iryna Yakovlevna Kyrylina was a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kyiv Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kyiv Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kyiv Music School and directed children’s choirs. Since 1982 she has worked as a full-time composer.

#2819

Aviva Slesin

#173730

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker. Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987. She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow and has had a retrospective of her work shown at the Sundance Film Festival She is a member of the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Slesin is also a painter.

#2820

Johanna Householder

#185444

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Johanna Householder is an American-born, Canadian performance artist. Since the late 1970s Householder has made performance works and videos while writing and editing texts about performance art in Canada. In the 1980s, Householder, Louise Garfield and Janice Hladki were members of the feminist performance ensemble The Clichettes, using lip-synching and humour to critique contemporary culture. The Clichettes are considered "the quintessential Bad Girls of Canadian performance of the 70s" and have been called "dangerously and aggressively funny" by Clive Robertson .

#2821

Maria Teresa Luengo

#191961

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Maria Teresa Luengo is an Argentine composer and musicologist. Life Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini. In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to continue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication . During this time ...

#2822

Shih-Hui Chen

#190633

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Shih-Hui Chen is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography Chen Shih-hui was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master's degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University. After receiving her DMA in Music Composition, Shih-Hui Chen took a position at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where she is currently Professor of Music Composition and Theory. Chen also serves on Asia Society Texas Center's Performing Arts & Culture Committee and is the director of 21C: Classical, Co...

#2823

Juliana Cunha

#190060

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Juliana Silva Cunha de Mendonça is a Brazilian journalist, writer, researcher, and university professor. She is the author of the blog Já matei por menos, which became a book published by the independent publisher in 2013. She also translated Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald for the same publisher in 2016.

#2824

Hanan Hadžajlić

#187644

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Hanan Hadžajlić is a Bosnian composer, flutist, and researcher who is primarily known for her work in contemporary music. Hadžajlić co-founded the INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music and serves as its director.

#2825

Ann-Marie Ivars

#130907

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ann-Marie Ivars is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, who focuses on studies of the Swedish dialects in Finland. Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland is a sociolinguistically oriented project, financed by the Academy of Finland from 1990 to 1995. The aim of the project has been to "describe the local language of a number of towns with a Swedish-speaking population, and to analyze the forces behind the rise and the preservation of local urban varieties". The main results of the project are a dissertation , "" by Marie-Charlotte Gullmets , and a monograph, "" by Ann-Marie Ivars .

#2826

Siegrid Ernst

#190565

Overall Influence

1929 - 2022 (93 years)

Siegrid Ernst was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and composition in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna, at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Heidelberg and Mannheim and at the University of the Arts Bremen. After completing her studies, she performed contemporary music both solo and in chamber ensembles for concerts and radio productions, and taught piano and composition, music theory and improvisation. She became successful as a com...

#2827

Chía Patiño

#188172

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Lucia Patiño, known as Chía is an Ecuadorian composer and arts administrator. Born in Quito, Patiño studied at a number of institutions in Ecuador before attending the University of Louisville, where she took classes in composition and piano. At Indiana University she received a master's degree and a PhD, both in music; at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music she received another master's degree, this in the arts with a specialty in performing arts. She spent nine years working at various theaters in the United States, including the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Opera Theatre of St.

#2828

Anu Raud

#192311

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Anu Raud is an Estonian textile artist and author. In 1967, she graduated from State Art Institute. She has been a long-time lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Viljandi Culture Academy. Since 2009, she is Professor Emeritus of the National Academy of Arts.

#2829

Adina Izarra

#188979

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Adina Izarra is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer. Biography Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph.D. in composition from York University, England, in 1988, after studying with Vic Hoyland.

#2830

Lynne Williams

#191670

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Lynette Frances Williams is an Australian educator and musician who held the position of Principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2017 to 2021. Prior to taking up her role at Guildhall, she was CEO of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art and was the director of the Culture, Ceremonies and Education Programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

#2831

Andrea Reinkemeyer

#190707

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Andrea Reinkemeyer is an American composer from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon and continued her studies in composition at the University of Michigan, graduating with a master's and doctoral degree. She was awarded a 2017 Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commission, 2022-23 Edith Green Distinguished Professor and 2019 Julie Olds and Thomas Hellie Creative Achievement Award for Linfield Faculty; her Smoulder for Wind Ensemble was awarded the 2021 Alex Shapiro Prize in the 40th Annual Search for New Music by the International Alliance of Women in Music and named a 2020 finalist for the National Band Association William D.

#2832

Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg

#192411

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

#2833

Nobuko Nakano

#50587

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Nobuko Nakano is a Japanese neuroscientist. Biography Nakano graduated from the College of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and in 2004 she completed a master's degree at the university's Graduate School of Medicine. In 2008 she completed a doctoral degree in neurology. From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a researcher at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France.

#2834

Shinuh Lee

#188733

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Shinuh Lee is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music. Royal Academy of Music recently announced Shinuh Lee as Associate of the Royal Academy of Music . Biography Shinuh Lee started her career as a composer when she took her first composition lessons with Unsuk Chin. Lee studied composition with Kang Sukhi at Seoul National University, and later with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music, the University of London, and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. While she studied in the UK, Lee won a number of prizes from various competitions and music festivals, w...

#2835

Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka

Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka

#171613

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka is a Polish visual artist, writer and art historian. She lives in the UK. Dawidek came onto the Polish art scene in the early 2000s. Dawidek combines a wide range of media in her projects – textual objects and installations, painting, animation, photographs, written drawings and hypertexts.

#2836

Klara Min

#185724

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Klara Yu-Kyoung Min is a South Korean-born classical pianist. She has performed in North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and South Korea in such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Barge Music, Gasteig Hall in Munich, Berlin Philharmonie Hall, and KBS Broadcast hall in Seoul.

#2837

Kate Augestad

#191936

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kate Elisabeth Augestad is a Norwegian vocalist known from bands like Johnny Banan Band and Program 81/82, and the mother of mezzo-soprano, vocalist, actress and conductor Tora Augestad . Augestad was born in Bergen. After her singing career, she became Assistant Professor at University of Bergen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, and "Handelshøyskolen BI" in Bergen. She has also appeared as an actor at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen.

#2838

Wanda Landowska

1879 - 1959 (80 years)

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.

#2839

E. Adelaide Hahn

1893 - 1967 (74 years)

Emma Adelaide Hahn was an American linguist and classicist who specialized in Latin grammar and Indo-European linguistics. She served as chair of the Hunter College Classics department for twenty-seven years and was the first woman to serve as president of the Linguistic Society of America.

#2840

Dorothy Day

1897 - 1980 (83 years)

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

#2841

Marguerite Long

1874 - 1966 (92 years)

Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was a French pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, and an ambassador of French music. Life Early life: 1874–1900 Marguerite Long was born to Pierre Long and Anne Marie Antoinette on November 13, 1874, in Nîmes, an old Roman town in the south of France. Long's parents were not musicians, but her mother highly emphasized the importance of music and "little Marguerite was not allowed to play wrong notes." Her sister, Claire Long, eight years older, was actually the person who influenced her in the pursuit of music. In 1883, at age seventeen, Claire was appointed Professo...

#2842

Jean Harlow

1911 - 1937 (26 years)

Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", Harlow was popular for her "Laughing Vamp" screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, whose image in the public eye has endured. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow number 22 on its greatest female screen legends of classical Ho...

#2843

Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson

1897 - 1993 (96 years)

Marian Anderson was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965.

#2844

Eleonora Duse

1858 - 1924 (66 years)

Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse , often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen. Duse achieved a unique power of conviction and verity on the stage through intense absorption in the character, "eliminating the self" as she put it, and letting the qualities emerge from within, not imposed through artifice.

#2845

Adelina Patti

1843 - 1919 (76 years)

Adelina Patti was an Italian opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America in the 19th century. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique.

#2846

Celia Johnson

1908 - 1982 (74 years)

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve , This Happy Breed , Brief Encounter and The Captain's Paradise . For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie .

#2847

Françoise Rosay

Françoise Rosay

1891 - 1974 (83 years)

Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.

#2848

Lupe Vélez

1908 - 1944 (36 years)

María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez , known professionally as Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short in 1927. By the end of the decade, she was acting in full-length silent films and had progressed to leading roles in The Gaucho , Lady of the Pavements and Wolf Song , among others. Vélez made the transition to sound films without difficulty. She was one of the first successful Mexican actresses in Hollywood.

#2849

Jane Ingham

1897 - 1982 (85 years)

Rose Marie "Jane" Ingham was an English botanist and scientific translator. She was appointed research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley in the Botany Department at the University of Leeds, and together, they were the first to separate cell walls from the root tip of broad beans. They analysed these cell walls and concluded that they contained protein. She carried out experiments on the cork layer of trees to study how cells function under a change of orientation and found profound differences in cell division and elongation in the epidermal layer of plants.

#2850

Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice Guy-Blaché

1873 - 1968 (95 years)

Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer filmmaker. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.

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