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#8301

Larry Campbell

#107150

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Larry Campbell is an American multi-instrumentalist who plays many stringed instruments in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock. He is perhaps best known for his time as part of Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour band from 1997 to 2004.

#8302

Marlen Khutsiev

Marlen Khutsiev

#107195

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.

#8303

Craig Dietrich

#78932

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Craig Dietrich is a digital artist and educator affiliated with Occidental College in Los Angeles. History Dietrich began his multimedia career as an Exhibit Engineering Assistant at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. He attended Adrian C. Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California. In 2008, he was a professor in the University of Maine New Media Department and continues as a researcher at UMaine's Still Water lab. Beginning in 2009, before moving to the Claremont Colleges, he was on the faculty of the Division of Media Arts and Practice, part of the School of Cinematic ...

#8304

Octavian Nemescu

#155625

Overall Influence

1940 - 2020 (80 years)

Octavian Nemescu was a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary, and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. From 1956 to 1963 Nemescu studied at the National University of Music Bucharest composition with Mihail Jora, harmony with Paul Constantinescu and orchestration with Alexandru Pascanu and Anatol Vieru. In 1972 he participated in the Darmstadt summer courses. From 1971 to 1978 he taught music analysis and counterpoint at the Transilvania University of Braşov. Until 1990 he was professor of counterpoint, harmony and music history at the School of Art "George Enescu" in Iaşi.

#8305

Axel Strauss

#162235

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Axel Strauss is a German violinist, and a professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal. At the age of seventeen he won the silver medal at the Enescu Competition in Romania and has been recognized with many other awards, including top prizes in the Bach, Wieniawski and Kocian competitions. He studied at the Music Academies of Lübeck and Rostock with Petru Munteanu. Strauss has been residing in the United States since 1996 when he began working with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School and became her teaching assistant in 1998.

#8306

Bruce Yonemoto

#111423

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

#8307

Nicholas Heath

#170514

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Nicholas Heath is a British opera director. Heath was born in London. His father, cellist Kenneth Heath, helped found the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra. His grandfather was the Welsh composer and physician John Rippiner Heath.

#8308

Enrico Di Giuseppe

#150333

Overall Influence

1932 - 2005 (73 years)

Enrico Di Giuseppe was a celebrated American operatic tenor who had an active performance career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He spent most of his career performing in New York City, juggling concurrent performance contracts with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1970s and 1980s. In the latter part of his career, he was active with the New York Grand Opera.

#8309

Karen Dreyfus

#146775

Overall Influence

Karen Dreyfus is a violist who currently teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. Ms. Dreyfus has distinguished herself as a recipient of many prizes, including the Naumburg Viola Competition , the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition , the Washington International Competition , and the Hudson Valley Competition . Ms. Dreyfus has concertized extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.

#8310

Larry Rosenberg

#33861

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Larry Rosenberg is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985. He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School. In addition to teaching at the Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, he is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

#8311

John Moorfield

#130477

Overall Influence

1943 - 2018 (75 years)

John Cornelius Moorfield , also known as , was a New Zealand academic whose expertise was in the teaching of the Māori language. His work, including the publication of resources for learners of the language, contributed to the language's revitalisation.

#8312

Dmitry Sinkovsky

#170454

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Dmitry Evgenyevich Sinkovsky is a Russian virtuoso violinist, concertmaster, countertenor and conductor. Sinkovsky started playing violin at age 5. He has been a prizewinner in the Bach Competition , Musica Antiqua Competition , and Romanus Weichlein . He has performed in Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia and the United States with such orchestras as the Canadian Arion Baroque Orchestra, Finnish Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, German Concerto Köln, Italian Il Giardino Armonico, Spanish Sevillian Orquesta Barroca, Australian Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, both Pratum Integrum and Musica Petro...

#8313

Marcus Bosch

#93456

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Marcus Bosch is a German conductor. He was Generalmusikdirektor in Aachen, held the position at the Staatstheater Nürnberg from 2011, and with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock from 2020. He is the artistic director of an opera festival in his home town. Conducting internationally, he was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule München in 2016. He was acclaimed for his recording of Bruckner's complete symphonies, among others.

#8314

Stephen Jones

#130277

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Stephen Jones is an English musician and novelist. Career Lo-fi period After studying at Nottingham Trent University, Jones became involved with an experimental theatre company, Dogs in Honey, in Nottingham in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions.

#8315

Endre Granat

#100783

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Endre Granat is an American violinist. He is regarded as the most recorded violinist and concertmaster working in the studios today. Early life and education Granat studied at the Franz Liszt Academy, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Granat is a former Fulbright Scholar.

#8316

Mark Andrews

#105291

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Mark Elliott Andrews is an American filmmaker and animator. He is best known for the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band.

#8317

Joe Swanberg

#87709

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Joseph Swanberg is an American independent filmmaker. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process. He is also known for his collaboration with Greta Gerwig.

#8318

John Godfrey

#121397

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

John Ferguson Godfrey, is a Canadian educator, journalist and former Member of Parliament. Background Godfrey was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey , was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960. In 1961, he attended the Neuchâtel Junior College in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

#8319

David Lewin

#67323

Overall Influence

1933 - 2003 (70 years)

David Benjamin Lewin was an American music theorist, music critic and composer. Called "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation", he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of transformational theory, which involves the application of mathematical group theory to music.

#8320

Steve Brown

#146796

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Steve Brown is a British composer, lyricist, record producer, and arranger. Career Although primarily known for his composing, Brown has proved himself an adept comic, both in performing and writing. He was a full cast member of the Sony Award winning BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series In One Ear from 1984 to 1986. Part of his character arc revolved around his complaining that not enough time or attention was given to his musical interludes, and that the rest of the cast got all the funny material.

#8321

Midori Suzuki

#141954

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

Midori Suzuki was a Japanese media educator, feminist and media researcher. She was professor of Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto from 1994 until her death.

#8322

Michael Mayer

#134061

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Michael Mayer is an electronic musician from Cologne, Germany. Mayer is a remixer, DJ and producer, and has released several singles on the Kompakt music label, working with founder Wolfgang Voigt. Mayer has also released music on Kompakt-related labels New Trance Atlantic and Kreisel 99.

#8323

Adrian Beaumont

#168007

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Adrian Beaumont is a British composer, conductor and university teacher. He studied at University College, Cardiff, completing a PhD in composition in 1972. He lectured in music at the University of Bristol from 1961 until his retirement in 2002, his 41 years continuous service making him the longest-serving academic in the university's history. In 1994 he was appointed to the post of Reader in Composition.

#8324

Alex James

#146281

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Alexander "Alex" James is a British songwriter, best known for his work with Jason Derulo, Adam Lambert, Katharine McPhee, Wanessa, 2008 The X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, and South Korean female pop group Girls' Generation. His first album cut was for Scottish singer-songwriter Darius Danesh, and in 2009 penned American Idol finalist Elliot Yamin's song "This Step Alone" from Yamin's Fight For Love album. He also has songs on albums by Australian singer-songwriter Ricki-Lee Coulter, British pop group Girls Aloud member Nadine Coyle, and Charice of the TV show Glee, among others.

#8325

Dana Chandler

#74534

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, , is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. Early life and education Chandler was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. He grew up in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

#8326

György Pauk

#151908

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

György Pauk is a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue. Biography Pauk was born in Budapest, , and entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at age nine. He began his studies as Imre Waldbauer's pupil in 1945. From 1947-1949 he studied with János Temesváry, and from 1949 till he graduated at the Academy with Ede Zathureczky, and he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.

#8327

Makoto Ozone

#133915

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Makoto Ozone is a Japanese jazz pianist. Career Ozone was born in Kobe, Japan. He began playing organ at two and by seven was an improviser. He appeared on Japanese television with his father, himself a pianist and club owner in Kobe, from 1968 to 1970. At the age of twelve, Ozone switched to piano after being impressed by the albums of Oscar Peterson, taking two years of classical piano lessons. In 1980, he entered the Berklee College of Music and later worked with Gary Burton. He also had his recording debut in 1983 before returning to his native Japan.

#8328

Dorothy DeBorba

Dorothy DeBorba

#141236

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Dorothy Adele DeBorba was an American child actress of Portuguese descent who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933. Early life Dorothy Adelle DeBorba was raised in Livermore, California. Of Portuguese Azorean ancestry, she came from a show business background. Her mother was a singer-dancer-actress, and her father was a drummer in Paul Whiteman's band.

#8329

Mike Christie

#130103

Overall Influence

Mike Christie is a British film and television director and producer who has made films for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Discovery, History Channel, Apple, Showtime and Red Bull. His career began in the 1990s working with the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman – who he met at meetings of Act Up London – on projects including the book At Your Own Risk. Other early collaborators included Pet Shop Boys and Suede with whom he worked from 1992 to 1997. In 1997, he co-created Drop the Debt, the mainstream music and entertainment industries campaign of the Jubilee 2000 movement, fronted by Bono and others...

#8330

Ursula Mamlok

#130210

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Ursula Mamlok was a German-born American composer and teacher. Education and influences Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family, and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938.

#8331

Violet Archer

#141576

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Violet Louise Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa on 21 February 2000.

#8332

Jerry Carrigan

#94533

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Jerry Kirby Carrigan was an American drummer and record producer. Early in his career he was a member of the original Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later worked as a session musician in Nashville for over three decades. His style of drumming with a loose, deep-sounding snare drum melded country music with an R&B feel and helped develop a Nashville sound known as "Countrypolitan". His drumming is heard on many recordings which have become classics, some listed below. He recorded with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Charley Pride, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, George Jones and many others.

#8333

Elaine Chew

#116646

Overall Influence

Elaine Chew is an operations researcher and pianist focused on the study of musical structures as they apply to musical performance, composition and cognition, the analysis of electrocardiographic traces of arrhythmia, and digital therapeutics. She is currently Professor of Engineering at King's College London, where she is jointly appointed in the Department of Engineering and the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences .

#8334

Shishir Bhattacharja

#170478

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Shishir Bhattacharja is a Bangladeshi linguist, writer, columnist, and a professor of the French language at the University of Dhaka. He is also the Director of the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka. An ardent advocate and promoter of the Bengali language, he has written extensively on the use of Bengali in Bangladesh. He translated works of Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Bernard-Henri Lévy into Bengali and poems of Jibanananda Das into French.

#8335

Toru Ohno

#152176

Overall Influence

1935 - 2022 (87 years)

was a Japanese scholar of Burmese. He was an emeritus professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, where he served for many years as chairman of the Burmese department. Graduated from the same university with major in Burmese language. He taught at Osaka University of Foreign Studies from 1965 to 2001 starting his career as an assistant professor.

#8336

Teddy Edwards

#100517

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Biography Edwards was born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. He learned to play at a very early age, first on alto saxophone and then clarinet.

#8337

Don Nilsen

#163512

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Don Lee Fred Nilsen is an American linguist and humor scholar. He is Professor of Linguistics in the Emeritus College at Arizona State University. He has published extensively on semantics, deep cases, and humor. Together with his wife Alleen Nilsen, Nilsen is co-founder of the International Society for Humor Studies and served as its executive secretary. Alongside Alleen Nilsen, he was also Co-President of American Name Society.

#8338

Kate Williams

#140023

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Kate Williams is an English actress best known for playing Joan Booth in Love Thy Neighbour and Liz Turner in EastEnders . She has also played Dorothy Burgess in May to December , Myra Costello in Family Affairs and Auntie Vera in Birds of a Feather as well as roles in the films Holiday on the Buses and Quadrophenia .

#8339

Matt Heafy

#70816

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Matthew Kiichi Heafy is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for heavy metal band Trivium. He was also the lead vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium's former producer Jason Suecof. In 2017, Heafy was voted sixth on the Ultimate Guitar list "Top 25 Greatest Modern Frontmen".

#8340

Tristram Cary

#126873

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM , was a pioneering English-Australian composer. He was also active as a teacher and music critic. Career Cary was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the third son and child of a pianist and the Ulster-born novelist Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as being amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms.

#8341

Renee Tajima-Peña

Renee Tajima-Peña

#125025

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Renee Tajima-Peña is an American filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities, race, gender and social justice. Her directing and producing credits include the documentaries Who Killed Vincent Chin?, No Más Bebés, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women and the 5-part docuseries Asian Americans.

#8342

Timothy Johnson

#101274

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

G. Timothy Johnson is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist, and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is known to television viewers as the longtime Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News on the ABC television network.

#8343

Alberto Lysy

#111259

Overall Influence

1935 - 2009 (74 years)

Alberto Lysy was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor of Ukrainian ancestry. The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss home M. Lysy visited for extended stays.

#8344

Robert Cogan

#130988

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Robert Cogan was an American music theorist, composer and teacher. Career He studied at the University of Michigan ; Princeton University ; Royal Conservatory of Brussels; Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood; and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. His principal teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Ross Lee Finney, Philipp Jarnach and Roger Sessions.

#8345

Bogusław Wróblewski

#121483

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Bogusław Wróblewski is a critic, literary scholar, and translator. He earned his doctorate in 1986 from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, where he is at present an assistant professor in the Department of Polish Language and Literature. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the quarterly arts and literature magazine, Akcent.

#8346

George Vosburgh

#138629

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

George Vosburgh was the principal trumpet player of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1992 until his retirement in 2017. He is a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University; he taught at Duquesne University until the 2015 school year. When he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1978, he was the youngest person ever to join the orchestra's brass section. Vosburgh was the recipient of a Best New Classical Artist Grammy Award in 1985 for his recording of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat with Chicago Pro Musica.

#8347

Martin Flämig

#126753

Overall Influence

1913 - 1998 (85 years)

Martin Flämig was a German church musician, and the cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1971 to 1991. Biography Martin Flämig studied since 1934 in Dresden with Alfred Stier and in Leipzig at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut des Leipziger Konservatoriums with Karl Straube, Günther Ramin, and Johann Nepomuk David. He was since 1948 cantor at the Versöhnungskirche in Dresden and premiered there Willy Burkhard's oratorio Das Gesicht des Jesaja , Ernst Krenek's Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae and Johannes Drießler's Dein Reich komme.

#8348

Robert B. Murrett

Robert B. Murrett

#37418

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Robert Brendan Murrett is an American academic, intelligence officer, and retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. He was the fourth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, serving from July 2006 through July 2010. In 2011, Murrett joined the Institute for Security Policy and Law at Syracuse University where he now serves as deputy director. He is also a faculty member at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and serves on the Institute for Veterans and Military Families advisory board at Syracuse University.

#8349

Rita Reed

#171777

Overall Influence

Rita Reed is an American photojournalist and professor. She is currently a University of Missouri journalism professor, where has held the O.O. McIntyre Professorship in 2014. She is also known as the author of Growing Up Gay: The Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence.

#8350

Ladislav Kupkovič

#150593

Overall Influence

1936 - 2016 (80 years)

Ladislav Kupkovič was a Slovak composer and conductor . Life Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He played violin in the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1965, and then began to write music for television and film to make a living. At the same time, he was writing more experimental music for concerts. In 1969 he won a music scholarship to West Berlin, and emigrated there the following year. In 1971, he conducted the premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mixtur in Cologne, a piece dedicated to Kupkovič himself.

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