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#9051

Vilmos Tátrai

#84979

Overall Influence

1912 - 1999 (87 years)

Vilmos Tátrai was a Hungarian classical violinist and the founder of the Tátrai Quartet. Life Tátrai was born in Kispest, now 19th district of Budapest. A professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he founded the Tátrai Quartet in 1946 with members of the Budapest orchestra. The quartet was then formed by Tátrai on the first violin, Mihály Szűcs on the second violin, József Iványi at the viola and Vera Dénes – replaced in 1951 by Ede Banda – on the cello. In 1948, the quartet won the Bartók String Quartet Competition.

#9052

Máire Breatnach

#147389

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Máire Breatnach is an Irish fiddle, violin and viola player. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has recorded five solo albums, participated in many collaborations, and developed didactic material for children, mostly in Irish.

#9053

Francisco Veiga

#112946

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Francisco José Veiga Rodríguez is a Spanish historian, journalist and writer. He is a doctor and professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona , where he has been a professor since 1983, with a focus on Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, the countries of the Balkan Peninsula and Turkey. He is an author of newspaper articles for El Periódico de Catalunya and El País.

#9054

John C. Marshall

#177077

Overall Influence

1941 - 2012 (71 years)

John C. Marshall was a British guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the jazz and blues vein. He was born in London, England. Biography Marshall came from a family of musicians; his grandfather was a music teacher and taught guitar, banjo and harp, and his father played the banjo, guitar and piano. His family had weekly musical evenings, in which the boy took part at a very early age. As a teenager he played the guitar in various bands in North London pubs.

#9055

Andrew Thomas

#130938

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Andrew William Thomas is an American composer. He studied with Karel Husa at Cornell University, with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his M.M. and D.M.A. Degrees in Composition at The Juilliard School. At Juilliard he studied with Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, and Otto Luening.

#9056

Patricia H. Thornton

#32484

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Patricia H. Thornton is an American organizational theorist, and Grand Challenge Initiative Professor of Sociology and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University as well as Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is known for her work on "the sociology of entrepreneurship" and "the Institutional Logics Perspective."

#9057

Billy Bang

#119373

Overall Influence

1947 - 2011 (64 years)

Billy Bang , born William Vincent Walker, was an American free jazz violinist and composer. Biography Bang's family moved to New York City's Bronx neighborhood while he was still an infant, and as a child he attended a special school for musicians in nearby Harlem. At that school, students were assigned instruments based on their physical size. Bang was fairly small, so he received a violin instead of either of his first choices, the saxophone or the drums. It was around this time that he acquired the nickname of "Billy Bang", derived from a popular cartoon character.

#9058

Eric Baković

#173180

Overall Influence

Eric Baković is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego with a specialization in phonology. He is also affiliated with the Center for Research on Language , the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Computational Social Science, and Latin American Studies. He earned his BA in 1993 in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and completed his PhD under the supervision of Alan Prince at Rutgers in 2000 .

#9059

Chris Butler

#121829

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Christopher Butler is an American musician, writer, and artist who is best known for leading the 1980s new wave band The Waitresses. His notable songs include "I Know What Boys Like", "No Guilt", "Christmas Wrapping" and the theme song for the TV sitcom Square Pegs.

#9060

Pascal Nemirovski

#174117

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Pascal Nemirovski is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to the Juilliard School on full scholarship and studied with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hofmann and Adele Marcus, pupil of Josef Lhevinne.

#9061

Eric Rosenblith

#167875

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Eric Rosenblith was an Austrian-born American violinist. He was the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, and had performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Rosenblith served as chairman of the New England Conservatory's string department for more than twenty-five years and was a faculty member of the Hartt School as well as the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas.

#9062

Joaquín Ramírez de Arellano

#179621

Overall Influence

Joaquín Ramírez de Arellano was a lawyer, professor and a journalist in the Philippines. Career He was a lawyer and a Spanish professor in the University of Santo Tomas. He then ventured into journalism wherein he worked as a reporter and then editor-in-chief of La Defensa.

#9063

Laura Karpman

#123388

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Laura Anne Karpman is an American composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall. She has won five Emmy Awards for her work. Karpman was trained at The Juilliard School, where she played jazz, and honed her skills scatting in bars.

#9064

Richard Wright

#129685

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Richard Wright is an English artist and musician. Wright was born in London. His family moved to Scotland when he was young. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1978 to 1982 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1993 and 1995 studying for a Master of Fine Art. He lives in Glasgow. and Norfolk.

#9065

Alan Myerson

#161652

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Alan Myerson is an American film and television director. Career Myerson began working in theatre in New York City, then directing The Second City in Chicago. He founded the improvisational comedy troupe The Committee in San Francisco in 1963. He directed films in the 1970s and 1980s, and has directed over 200 television episodes for shows such as Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Friends, Boy Meets World, The Larry Sanders Show, Picket Fences, Miami Vice, Laverne & Shirley, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, and Busting Loose. He has taught acting at UC Berkeley, SF State, and directing at Maine Media Workshops.

#9066

Ivan Moody

#168828

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ivan Moody is a British composer and musicologist. Moody is active as a conductor, having directed ensembles such as Voces Angelicae, the Kastalsky Chamber Choir , Capilla Peña Florida , Cappella Romana , the Choir of the Cathedral of St George, Novi Sad, the KotorArt Festival Choir , the Orthodox Choir of the University of Joensuu and Ensemble Alpha ; and as a widely published musicologist. His research interests include the music of Eastern Europe, especially 20th century and contemporary music from Russia and the Balkans, the music of the Orthodox Church in the modern era, music and spi...

#9067

Kathleen O'Grady

Kathleen O'Grady

#152685

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kathleen O'Grady is a Canadian author and academic. She has published two children's books, but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women's health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion. She is also a past Editor of Network, the national, bilingual health magazine for Canadian women, and has published several books addressing feminist theory and methodology.

#9068

Adrian Lucas

#175282

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Adrian Paul Lucas, b. 1962 is an English organist, tutor and composer. He became organist and director of music at Worcester Cathedral in 1996 and artistic director of the Worcester Three Choirs Festival. Previously he had been assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral before becoming organist and master of the choristers at Portsmouth Cathedral .

#9069

Rachel Gough

#121189

Overall Influence

Rachel Gough FRAM is a British classical bassoonist. She has been Principal Bassoon of the London Symphony Orchestra since 1999 and was Co-Principal Bassoon of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1999.

#9070

Jason Barry-Smith

Jason Barry-Smith

#155918

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jason Barry-Smith is an Australian operatic baritone, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. He works with organisations such as Opera Queensland, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seven Network, and the Queensland Youth Choir.

#9071

Stephen Montague

#147912

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Stephen Rowley Montague is an American composer, pianist and conductor who grew up in Idaho, New Mexico, West Virginia and Florida. Musical Statement "I write music to engage an audience, to seduce them sometimes by stealth with something they know, then taking them somewhere they may never have been.

#9072

Warren Smith

#175840

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Warren Smith is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, known as a contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble . Biography Smith was born May 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to a musical family. His father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmie Noone, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. At the age of four, Smith studied clarinet with his father. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1957, then received a master's degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music in 1958.

#9073

Levon Chilingirian

#173327

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Levon Chilingirian OBE is a UK-based violinist of Armenian origin. The founder of the Chilingirian Quartet, he is also a professor and Chamber Music Artist in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music and professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, both in London.

#9074

Eliza Hittman

#125448

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Eliza Hittman is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer from New York City. She has won multiple awards for her film Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which include the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award—both for best screenplay.

#9075

Hal Crook

#135598

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Hal Crook is a jazz trombonist. He has a degree from the Berklee College of Music and is considered to be a leading teacher and author in the field of jazz improvisation. Hal was a professor at Berklee College of Music for 30 years, and has played on over 40 recordings. Some of his notable students include Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese, Ryan Shore, Antonio Sanchez, Lionel Loueke, and Chris Cheek. Hal's composing and arranging credits include music for The Tonight Show Band, WDR Radio Band , Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Herb Pomeroy, Louis Bellson, Artie Shaw, Duke Belaire, Dick Johnson, Nick...

#9076

Alan Belkin

#178750

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Alan Belkin is a Canadian composer, organist, pianist as well as a pedagogue. Early life Alan Belkin was born in Montreal. He began piano studies with Philip Cohen, then he studied organ with Dom André Laberge and with Bernard Lagacé. He studied composition with Marvin Duchow and in 1983, he got his doctorate from the Juilliard School in New York under the tutelage of American composers David Diamond and Elliott Carter.

#9077

Fredwreck

#79212

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Farid Karam Nassar , better known by his stage name Fredwreck, is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer. He got his big break when he became a producer for Dr. Dre's newly founded record label Aftermath Entertainment, and then went on to work with Snoop Dogg's record label Dogghouse Records and became a known producer on Tha Dogg Pound-affiliated material. During this time he also was a producer for Snoop Doggs track: Riders on the storm Ft The Doors on EA's Need for Speed Underground 2. He has produced tracks from Kurupt's Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha and...

#9078

Colin Touchin

#171570

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Colin Michael Touchin was a British conductor, composer and music educator. His compositions include two oratorios, four orchestral sinfoniettas, and works for wind band and choral groups. Biography Colin Touchin was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford.

#9079

Jason Perry

#149104

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jason Perry is an English record producer and singer/songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the Suffolk based band alternative rock 'A'. He has an identical twin brother, Adam, and a younger brother, Giles, both of whom are also members of the band. Recently, Perry has produced albums by Greywind, Fatherson, Don Broco, Molotov, McBusted, Matthew P, Ivyrise, the Blackout, Kids in Glass Houses, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Futures, Matt Willis and McFly.

#9080

Irma Ravinale

#175646

Overall Influence

1937 - 2013 (76 years)

Irma Ravinale was an Italian composer and music educator. Biography Irma Ravinale was born in Naples, Italy. She studied composition at the Rome Conservatory of Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, also studying piano, conducting and choral music. After completing her education, she took a position in 1966 teaching composition at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome.

#9081

Vera Neubauer

#144450

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Vera Neubauer is a Czech born British experimental filmmaker, animator, feminist activist and educator. She is known for her jarring, provocative and anti establishment approach. Her life's work spans genres, from cinematic short film to television series for children. Neubauer has received two BAFTA Cymru awards.

#9082

Jon Appleton

#129746

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Jon Howard Appleton was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970, he won Guggenheim, Fulbright and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years.

#9083

Bion Tsang

#153238

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Bion Yu-Ting Tsang is an American cellist and professor. Biography Bion Tsang was born in Lansing, Michigan to Chinese parents. His father, Paul Ja-Min Tsang , received a PhD from Michigan State University in metallurgy and his mother, Helena Rosa Lit , pursued a doctorate in political science. When Tsang was 6 weeks old, his family moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, where his father started a 30-year career as an engineer at IBM.

#9084

Núria Almiron

#128200

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Núria Almiron Roig is a Catalan researcher who specializes in communication and power relations. Since 2008, she has been a professor in the Department of Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and was previously a professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona .

#9085

Peter Holland

#172516

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Peter Holland is an Australian former broadcaster, interviewer and newsreader, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in radio and television news from 1966 to 1998 and then Channel Nine from 1998 to 2003. He then became a senior lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

#9086

Henry Kaiser

#166700

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. He is married to Canadian artist Brandy Gale. He is the son of Henry J. Kaiser Jr. and the grandson of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.

#9087

Jason Hill

#131274

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jason Staehler Hill is an American film score composer, record producer, songwriter, mixer, inventor and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for inventing his own musical instruments and for playing cello, guitar, pianos, bass, drums and synthesizers.

#9088

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch

#140827

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also a tenor and an academic teacher.

#9089

Davy Jones

#142877

Overall Influence

1945 - 2012 (67 years)

David Thomas Jones was an English actor and singer. Best known as a member of the band The Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees , Jones was considered a teen idol. Aside from his work on The Monkees TV show, Jones's acting credits include a Tony-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the original London and Broadway productions of Oliver! and a guest-starring role in a hallmark episode of The Brady Bunch television show and a later reprised parody film.

#9090

Rudolf Krajčovič

#131989

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Rudolf Krajčovič was a Slovak linguist and Slavist, the author of migration-integration theory about the origin of the Slovak language. Life He studied Slovak and philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, later he worked in several positions at the Department of the Slovak Language and Literature . He worked abroad at various prestigious Slavist workplaces . The secretary of the Association of Slovak Linguists , a member of the board , a vice-president . A vice-president of the Slovak Linguistic Society , a member of several international Slavist organizations.

#9091

Margaret Harshaw

#142966

Overall Influence

1909 - 1997 (88 years)

Margaret Harshaw was an American opera singer and voice teacher who sang for 22 consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera from November 1942 to March 1964. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano in the early 1930s but then began performing roles from the soprano repertoire in 1950. She sang a total of 39 roles in 25 works at the Met and was heard in 40 of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. She was also active as a guest artist with major opera houses in Europe and North and South America.

#9092

Geoffrey Thompson

#179765

Overall Influence

#9093

Werner Koch

#160787

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Werner Koch was a German pastor, evangelical-reformist theologian and journalist. Through his early involvement with the Confessing Church he came to wider prominence as an opponent of the Nazi government, spending time in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

#9094

Jack Cooper

#112227

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jack Cooper is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. He has performed with, written music for and recorded by internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists.

#9095

Carlton Gamer

#169963

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Carlton Edwin Wesley Gamer was an American composer and music theorist. Gamer composed more than seventy works in a variety of genres, including songs, music for dance, solo piano pieces, chamber music, choral works, orchestral works, and computer music. His compositional approach has been fundamentally shaped by his theoretical interests, the latter influenced by an interest in mathematics.

#9096

Anders Palm

#77816

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Anders Palm is a Swedish literary scholar and linguist. He is professor of history of literature at Lund University. In 2011 he received an honorary degree of medicine. Palm is the principal architect of "Medical Humanities" which today is included in the Swedish physician education, and means that the body is seen from a humanities perspective as from a normal medical perspective.

#9097

Randy Napoleon

#109468

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Randy Napoleon is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger who tours nationally and internationally. He has also toured with the Freddy Cole Quartet, Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra led by John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton, Rene Marie, and with Michael Bublé.

#9098

Gabriel Jackson

Gabriel Jackson

#162860

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Gabriel Jackson is an English composer. He is a three-time winner of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors British Composer Award. From 2010-2013 he was associate composer to the BBC Singers.

#9099

Sergio Azzolini

#173774

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sergio Azzolini is an Italian bassoonist and music conductor. Early life Azzolini was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1967 and learned bassoon after his mother suggested being a musician would provide a long term job for him.

#9100

Juana Valdes

#138899

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Juana Valdés is a multi-disciplinary artist and an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her works examine Afro-Cuban migration through the lens of material culture and personal experience. Valdés's work in ceramics, printmaking, video, and installation explores the colonial and imperial economies that tie the transoceanic movement of people and political ideologies across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Her installations and photographs of mass-produced decorative objects chart the history of colonial trade in conversation with her sub-Saharan and East Asian...

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