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#6651

Malcolm Bilson

#122187

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Malcolm Bilson is an American pianist and musicologist specializing in 18th- and 19th-century music. He is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Bilson is one of the foremost players and teachers of the fortepiano; this is the ancestor of the modern piano and was the instrument used in Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's time.

#6652

Veljo Tormis

#80582

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs , either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

#6653

Robert Fox

#115861

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Michael John Fox is an English theatre and film producer, whose work includes the 2002 film The Hours. Life and career He was born the third son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the younger brother of actors Edward Fox and James Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actors Laurence Fox and Freddie Fox are his nephews. His maternal grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Fox was educated at Harrow School.

#6654

Helen Craig McCullough

#61625

Overall Influence

1918 - 1998 (80 years)

Helen Craig McCullough was an American academic, translator and Japanologist. She is best known for her 1988 translation of The Tale of the Heike. Early life McCullough was born in California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939 with a degree in political science. Early in World War II, she studied Japanese at the U.S. Navy’s Language School in Boulder, Colorado. In 1950, she returned to Berkeley where she earned an MA and PhD. She married fellow Berkeley graduate student William H. McCullough.

#6655

Céline Guivarch

#96334

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Céline Guivarc'h is a French climate scientist modelling the impact of climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective and how to limit it. She is a research director at École des Ponts ParisTech. She is a member of the French High Council on Climate and a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report .

#6656

Wang Keqin

#87543

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Wang Keqin , is an influential Chinese muckraking reporter, founder of charity Da Ai Qing Chen or Love Save Pneumoconiosis and blogger. He is also a professor at Peking University in Beijing. Early life Wang was born in the Yongdeng County in the Gansu Province of the People's Republic of China. Before becoming a reporter, Wang was a farmer in Gansu. It was here where he discovered journalism in the mid-80s. He received about for each article he wrote, or as he said, enough for six bowls of noodles. He began by writing propaganda stories for the local media. In 1989 he began working for the Gansu Economics Daily.

#6657

Mike Marshall

#139578

Overall Influence

1944 - 2005 (61 years)

Michael Marshall was a French American actor. Early life and career Marshall was born in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital in Hollywood, on September 13, 1944. When his parents divorced, his father made sure that he received an American education. He began studying law, but dreamed of becoming an actor. He later joined his mother in Paris. Marshall began to take drama classes from Raymond Griard and later directed his first film, Potato, in France under the direction of Robert Thomas, adapted from the play's eponymous Marcel Achard. He had already appeared in two films from overseas, the first was directed by his father, and the second by Vincente Minnelli.

#6658

Cameron Neylon

#78229

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. From 2012 - 2015 they were the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.

#6659

Lord Finesse

#76407

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Lord Finesse is an American rapper and hip-hop record producer from The Bronx, New York best known as the leader of the D.I.T.C. crew. About.com ranked him number 29 on its list of the Top-50 Hip-Hop Producers.

#6660

Charmine Emma Jean Härtel

#153727

Overall Influence

#6661

Jan Hendrik Hulstijn

#153728

Overall Influence

#6662

Hans Karl Peterlini

#42027

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Hans Karl Peterlini is an author, journalist, Austrian university professor and educational researcher originally from South Tyrol , an autonomous, mostly German speaking province in Northern Italy.

#6663

Wolf Gorelik

#130821

Overall Influence

1933 - 2013 (80 years)

Wolf Gorelik was a Russian conductor, specialising in theatre work. Born in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Gorelik studied at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire, where he studied conducting with Mikhail Paverman and violin with Mikhail Zatulovski. From 1963 to 1964, he was a conductor of the Tomsk Philharmonic Society's Symphony Orchestra. From 1965 to 1966 he was a conductor of the Sverdlovsk Opera. He became chief conductor of the Buryat Opera in 1966. He was chief conductor at the Saratov Opera and Chernyshevsky Ballet from 1967 to 1973. In 1974, he joined the Moscow Operetta as chief conductor and held the post for two decades.

#6664

Michel Philippot

#123814

Overall Influence

1925 - 1996 (71 years)

Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator. Life Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of mathematics were interrupted by World War II, after which he decided instead to study music, first at the of Reims, and then at the Conservatoire de Paris , where he studied harmony with Georges Dandelot. He also took private composition lessons from 1946 to 1950 with René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the music of the Second Viennese School. In 1949 he began a career at ORTF in a position as a music producer. In 1959 he became a...

#6665

Friederike Moltmann

Friederike Moltmann

#86397

Overall Influence

Friederike Moltmann is a linguist and philosopher. She has done pioneering work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics, especially on the interface between metaphysics and natural language semantics, but also on the interface between philosophy of mind and mathematics. She is an important proponent of natural language ontology. She is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.

#6666

İlhan Usmanbaş

#84465

Overall Influence

1921 - Present (105 years)

İlhan Usmanbaş is a Turkish contemporary classical composer. Born in Istanbul, Usmanbaş grew up in Ayvalık. When he was twelve years old, his elder brother gave him a cello, and İlhan began to teach himself to play. After moving back to Istanbul, he studied the cello seriously. His maths teacher, a lover of music, advised Usmanbaş to give up the career that he had planned for himself: "We have enough engineers in Turkey. You should be a composer instead."

#6667

Mickela Moore

#153842

Overall Influence

#6668

Sergei Alexandrovsky

#152592

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Sergei A. Alexandrovsky is a Ukrainian poet and translator who writes in Russian language. Background From 1977 to 1982, Alexandrovsky studied English at the University of Kharkiv and continues to reside in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His full-time literary career as a translator of poetry from the English, Spanish and Portuguese started in 1989. Since then Alexandrovsky rendered into Russian numerous lyrics and long poems by Fernando Pessoa, Julián del Casal, José Martí, John Lydgate, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, John Milton, Allan Ramsey, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Robert Southey, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, many other English and Scottish authors.

#6669

Shlomo Mintz

#99876

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Shlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violinist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.

#6670

Hugh M. Stimson

#114886

Overall Influence

1931 - 2011 (80 years)

Hugh McBirney Stimson was an American sinologist and linguist who specialised in the poetry of the Tang dynasty . He was particularly known for his research into Chinese historical phonology which enabled him to reconstruct the spoken language of Tang poetry.

#6671

Denyce Graves

#87263

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Denyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. Early life Graves was born on March 7, 1964, in Washington, D.C., to Charles Graves and Dorothy Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue section of Washington. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1981. Graves studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory with Helen Hodam. She worked at the Wolf Trap Opera Company, which provides further training and experience for young singers who are between their academic training and full-time professional careers.

#6672

Edvard Tchivzhel

Edvard Tchivzhel

#48820

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Edvard Tchivzhel is a Russian-born conductor and music director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville, South Carolina. Early life Edvard Tchivzhel was born into a musical family in St. Petersburg, Russia . He graduated from the prestigious Leningrad Conservatory, which produced notable alumni such as Jascha Heifetz, Mariss Jansons, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Yuri Temirkanov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with degrees in piano and conducting. He then completed three years of postgraduate study under Latvian conductor, Arvid Jansons .

#6673

Julia Wolfe

#92086

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Julia Wolfe is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock". Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. She has also received the Herb Alpert Award and was named a MacArthur Fellow .

#6674

Graziella Sciutti

#140412

Overall Influence

1927 - 2001 (74 years)

Graziella Sciutti was an Italian soprano opera singer and later vocal teacher and opera producer. Career Sciutti was born in Turin, Italy. Her parents were musical, her father being an organist; her mother was French. She studied privately with Ginevra Marinuzzi, then in Rome at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under Rachele Margliano-Mori with the intention of making a career on the concert platform. From 1948 she participated in broadcasts on Italian Radio, her first being L'oca del Cairo.

#6675

Helmut Deutsch

#110695

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Helmut Erich Deutsch is an Austrian classical pianist, specialising in chamber music and lieder accompaniment. Deutsch was born in Vienna, where he studied piano, composition and musicology at the Vienna Music Academy from 1967 until 1979. He was awarded the Vienna Composition Prize in 1967. He was professor for lied interpretation and performance at the from 1986 until 2011. He is still guest professor there and at other German universities. He has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Opera. Deutsch gives master classes throughout Eu...

#6676

John Pizzarelli

#101520

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. is an American jazz guitarist and vocalist. He has recorded over twenty solo albums and has appeared on more than forty albums by other recording artists, including Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Rosemary Clooney; his father, jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli; and his wife, singer Jessica Molaskey.

#6677

Ahn Sang-soo

#98008

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ahn Sang-soo is a South-Korean leading typographic designer. Biography Ahn Sang-soo developed an interest in Hangul typography in the early 1980s. He invented many typefaces, including one named after himself. He graduated from the university of Hongik.

#6678

Pierre Amoyal

#118340

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Pierre Amoyal is a French violinist and is the artistic director of the Conservatory of Lausanne. He owns the "Kochanski" Stradivarius of 1717. It was stolen from him in 1987 and recovered in 1991.

#6679

Joe Leydon

#86626

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon is an American film critic and historian. A critic and correspondent for Variety since 1990, he is the author of Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See , and was a contributing critic for Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. As of July 2021 he has 1225 reviews collected on the website Rotten Tomatoes. He is also a founding member of Houston Film Critics Society, and a voting member of Critics Choice. From 2001 until 2021, Leydon taught film and communication studies courses at Houston Community College and the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at Univ...

#6680

Hanns-Martin Schneidt

#83707

Overall Influence

1930 - 2018 (88 years)

Hanns-Martin Schneidt was a German conductor, harpsichordist, organist and academic. He held teaching positions in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Tokyo, was Generalmusikdirektor in Wuppertal, artistic director of the Münchener Bach-Chor and the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, and founded Bach ensembles in Berlin and Tokyo.

#6681

Charles Coles

#45730

Overall Influence

1911 - 1992 (81 years)

Charles “Honi” Coles was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed tapping, and a close-to-the-floor style where "the legs and feet did the work". Coles was also half of the professional tap dancing duo Coles and Atkins, whose specialty was performing with elegant style through various tap steps such as "swing dance", "over the top", "bebop", "buck and wing", and "slow drag".

#6682

Koro Dewes

#105705

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Te Kapunga Matemoana "Koro" Dewes was a kaumātua of the Ngāti Porou iwi of New Zealand. He was a pioneer of Māori education and an advocate for the Māori language. Dewes attended Horoera Native Primary School and won a scholarship to Wesley College, where he became dux and head prefect. He went to Ardmore Teachers' College in 1949 and taught at Tikitiki District High School and St. Stephen's Anglican Māori boarding school. From 1962 to 1966, he lectured in the University Extension Department of the University of Auckland, and then was appointed as a lecturer in Māori language at the Victoria University of Wellington.

#6683

Andrew Linn

#116309

Overall Influence

Andrew Linn is a linguist, historian and academic administrator. He is currently the Head of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Westminster.

#6684

Anindya Ghose

#46679

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Anindya Ghose is an Indian-born American academic, and the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University's Stern School of Business and the director of the Masters of Business Analytics program at NYU Stern. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business. He is the author of TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy which is a double winner in the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into five languages . He is a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar with an MBA scholarship named after him. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business.

#6685

Kwok-kee Wei

#154351

Overall Influence

#6686

Richard E. Montague

#154365

Overall Influence

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Chris F. Kemerer

#154383

Overall Influence

#6688

Lyudmila Verbitskaya

#15400

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Lyudmila Verbitskaya was a Russian linguist and teacher. She served as president of Saint Petersburg State University. Career Lyudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaya was born in Leningrad on 17 October 1936.

#6689

Rico Sennrich

#154402

Overall Influence

#6690

Gordon Crosse

#115560

Overall Influence

1937 - 2021 (84 years)

Gordon Crosse was an English composer. Biography Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire on 1 December 1937, and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a first class honours degree in music, where his tutors included Egon Wellesz. He then undertook two years of postgraduate research on early fifteenth-century music before beginning an academic career at the University of Birmingham. Subsequent employment included posts at the Universities of Essex, Cambridge and California. He won the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Cobbett Medal for services to music in 1976. For two years after 198...

#6691

Albert Pietersma

#124805

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Albert Pietersma is Dutch professor emeritus of Septuagint and Hellenistic Greek in the Department of Near and Middle East Civilizations at the University of Toronto‘s Faculty of Arts and Science.

#6692

Manfred Cordes

#123403

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Manfred Cordes is a German conductor of early music, musicologist and teacher. He is professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and was its rector from 2007 to 2012. Publications Die lateinischen Motetten des Iacobus Regnart im Spiegel der Tonarten- und Affektenlehre des 16. Jahrhunderts. University of Bremen 1991 Pian e forte. Hauschild, Bremen 1998; Nicola Vicentinos Enharmonik. , Akademische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Graz/Austria, 2007;

#6693

Ellen Ernst Kossek

#80643

Overall Influence

Ellen Ernst Kossek is an American academic and social scientist who is known for research on work, family, and personal life. She is the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business. She previously served as the Research Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence for Purdue University’s Provost’s Office and as a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University’s School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, her Master of Business Administration from the Stephen M.

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John Cohen

#94429

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

John Cohen was an American musician, photographer and film maker who performed and documented the traditional music of the rural South and played a major role in the American folk music revival. In the 1950s and 60s, Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, a New York–based string band. Cohen made several expeditions to Peru to film and record the traditional culture of the Q'ero, an indigenous people. Cohen was also a professor of visual arts at SUNY Purchase College for 25 years.

#6695

Alan Curtis

#120163

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Alan Curtis was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera. Born in Mason, Michigan, Curtis graduated from studies at the University of Illinois, and received his PhD in 1960 with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck. He then relocated to Amsterdam to work with Gustav Leonhardt, with whom he subsequently recorded a number of Bach's concerti for harpsichord. In the 1960s and 1970s, he made a number of recordings of solo harpsichord music including albums dedicated to the keyboard music of Rameau and the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as his rec...

#6696

Lynn Schofield Clark

#89335

Overall Influence

Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news.

#6697

Ji-young Kim

#153551

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Ji-young Kim is a South Korean prima ballerina and is currently a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet in Seoul, South Korea. Early years Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She tried a number of hobbies while young, including Taekwondo and piano. She developed an interest in ballet and began taking ballet classes when she was ten years old.

#6698

Jessica Moore

#88561

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Jessica Carol Moore is an American journalist who currently works for WCBS-TV in New York City. Awards and nominations 2010, won Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award for WLEX-TV2011, won KAPB Award for WLEX-TV2013, won The Best of Silver State Awards for KSNV-DT along with KVVU-TV Anchor and Reporter John Huck2014, nominated 3 Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Awards for KSNV-DT 2015, nominated Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Award for KSNV-DT 2016, won Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Award for KSNV

#6699

Uto Ughi

#117333

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Bruto Diodato "Uto" Ughi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia between 1987 and 1992. He is considered one of Italy's greatest living violinists and is also active in the promotion of classical music in today's culture.

#6700

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

#120036

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre is a Montreal-based filmmaker most notable for her animated documentary films. After completing a BFA with honours in animation and an MFA in film production at Concordia University, she attended a Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004, the Talent Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and participated in a three-month residency in Japan in Sapporo in 2009.

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