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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

P. L. Travers

1899 - 1996 (97 years)

Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the ...

#2839

Lili Boulanger

1893 - 1918 (25 years)

Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.

#2840

Betty Compson

1897 - 1974 (77 years)

Betty Compson was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

#2841

Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano

1930 - 1989 (59 years)

Silvana Mangano was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of thespians who arose from the neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol for the 1950s and '60s. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress three times - for The Verona Trial , The Witches , and The Scientific Cardplayer – and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice.

#2842

Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska

1840 - 1909 (69 years)

Helena Modrzejewska , known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was successful first on the Polish stage. After emigrating to the United States , she also succeeded on stage in America and London. She is regarded as the greatest actress in the history of theatre in Poland.

#2843

Myra Hess

1890 - 1965 (75 years)

Dame Julia Myra Hess, was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. Career Early life Julia Myra Hess was born on 25 February 1890 to a Jewish family in South Hampstead, London. She was the youngest of four children and began piano lessons at the age of five. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, after winning a scholarship to the latter in 1903 at age 12.

#2844

Florence Lawrence

Florence Lawrence

1886 - 1938 (52 years)

Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

#2845

Maria Yudina

1899 - 1970 (71 years)

Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was a Soviet pianist. Early life and education Maria Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire. She was the fourth child of Veniamin Yudin, a renowned physiologist and forensic expert, and his first wife, Raisa Yakovlevna Yudina . Yudina studied at the Petrograd Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Nikolayev. She also briefly studied privately with Felix Blumenfeld. Her classmates included Dmitri Shostakovich and Vladimir Sofronitsky. In 1921–22 Yudina attended lectures at the historical-philological department of Petrogr...

#2846

Imogen Holst

1907 - 1984 (77 years)

Imogen Clare Holst was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much educational material, and several books on the life and works of her father.

#2847

Martita Hunt

1900 - 1969 (69 years)

Martita Edith Hunt was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.

#2848

Athene Seyler

1889 - 1990 (101 years)

Athene Seyler, CBE was an English actress. Early life She was born in Hackney, London; her German-born grandparents moved to the United Kingdom, where her grandfather Philip Seyler was a merchant in London. Athene Seyler was educated at Coombe Hill School in Surrey, a progressive co-educational school which disliked petitionary prayer and whose advanced biology classes studied Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Seyler took part in an anti-blood sports demonstration, during which pupils captured the fox from the local hunt.

#2849

Martha Hill

1900 - 1995 (95 years)

Martha Hill was one of the most influential American dance instructors in history. She was the first Director of Dance at the Juilliard School, and held that position for almost 35 years. Early life Hill was born in East Palestine, Ohio. She attended the Battle Creek Normal School of Physical Education in Battle Creek, Michigan, graduating in 1920. She took over the position of dance instructor, teaching ballet and Swedish gymnastics for the next three years. In 1923, she was hired as dance instructor at Kansas State Teachers College. Hill taught there for three years, moving to New York City...

#2850

Frances Marion

1888 - 1973 (85 years)

Frances Marion was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. During the course of her career, she wrote over 325 scripts. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Marion began her film career working for filmmaker Lois Weber. She wrote numerous silent film scenarios for actress Mary Pickford, before transitioning to writing sound films.

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