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#9151

Daniel Kobialka

#114294

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Daniel Kobialka was an American violinist, composer, and music entrepreneur. Biography Kobialka studied violin at the Hartt College of Music. Kobialka was the principal second violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from September 1975 to September 2008. He was also the founding concertmaster and soloist with San Francisco’s Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra with George Cleve.

#9152

Lillian Fuchs

#168065

Overall Influence

1901 - 1995 (94 years)

Lillian Fuchs was an American violist, teacher and composer. She is considered to be among the finest instrumentalists of her time. She came from a musical family, and her brothers, Joseph Fuchs, a violinist, and Harry Fuchs, a cellist, performed with her on various recordings.

#9153

Patricia Loew

#168720

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Patricia, "Patty" Loew is a journalist, professor, author, and community historian, broadcaster, documentary film maker, academic and advocate. She has written extensively about Ojibwe treaty rights, sovereignty and the role of Native American media in communicating Indigenous world views.

#9154

Armen Movsessian

#139434

Overall Influence

Armen Movsessian is a violin player. Education 1976-1987 - Tchaikovsky School of Music 1987-1990 - Yerevan Conservatory named after Komitas 1990-1992 - Longy School of Music Biography Born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia, Armen Movsessian has always had a passion for music. At the Tchaikovsky School of Music in Yerevan, Armenia, under the direction of Professor Mokatsian, Armen Movsessian started his formal violin instruction at the age of seven. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky School of Music for musically gifted students with a high school certificate, and the Yerevan Conservatory named after Komitas awarded him his bachelor's and master's degrees.

#9155

Mohammad-Javad Haghshenas

Mohammad-Javad Haghshenas

#108656

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Mohammad-Javad Haghshenas is an Iranian journalist and reformist politician who is member of City Council of Tehran.

#9156

Alan Jones

#159628

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Alan Jones is a film critic, broadcaster, and reporter primarily focused on movies in production, especially in the horror fantasy genre. His first assignment was on Star Wars in 1977, after which he became the London correspondent for Cinefantastique magazine from 1977 to 2002 and reviewed for the British magazine Starburst from 1980 until 2008. A film critic for Film Review and Radio Times, he has made contributions to the Radio Times Guide to Films, the Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction, and Halliwell's Film Guide. He has also been a film critic for BBC News 24, Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and Sky News programme Sunrise.

#9157

Pamela Snow

#170354

Overall Influence

Pamela Claire Snow is an Australian speech-language pathologist and registered psychologist whose research concerns language disorders in vulnerable children and adolescents, and their implications for academic achievement and psychosocial wellbeing. She has been a vocal critic of pseudoscientific approaches to early reading instruction and support, such as the Arrowsmith Program.

#9158

Charles L. Campbell

#90995

Overall Influence

1930 - 2013 (83 years)

Charles L. Campbell was an American sound engineer who won three Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing. He also served as Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1984-1987. Early life Campbell was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved West with his family when he was a boy. He attended Hollywood Professional School and Los Angeles City College before beginning his career in the film industry career as a messenger at Warner Brothers Studios.

#9159

Luciano

#105188

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jepther McClymont OD , better known as Luciano, is a Jamaican second-generation roots reggae singer. Career Born in Davyton, Manchester Parish, and raised as the seventh of nine children in a strict Adventist family, Luciano began recording in 1992, with his first single "Ebony & Ivory" on the Aquarius Record label, followed by a split album with DJ Presley for producer Sky High. His first releases as Luciano included the hit single "Give My Love a Try", produced at Castro Brown's New Name Studio, followed by others produced by Brown, Freddie McGregor, Blacka Dread, and Sly and Robbie, including the 1993 no.

#9160

Noyuri Otsuka

#113712

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Noyuri Otsuka was a Japanese Christian scholar and researcher. Biography Otsuka was born in Tokyo in 1924. Her father, Tomiyoshi Otsuka, was a pastor and the founder of the Apostolic Church. Otsuka graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University, and also studied at Waseda University and Clark University in the United States. She held a research position at Yale University after graduating. Otsuka spent most of her career as a professor at Keisen University.

#9161

Robert Harvey

#170831

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Robert Michael Nelson Harvey is an English singer, musician, DJ and songwriter. He is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Music and has since written hits such as "Real Love" for Clean Bandit/Jess Glynne, "Lonely" for Joel Corry and "Head and Heart" for Joel Corry/MNEK. In 2021 he joined Kasabian as a touring vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.

#9162

Richard Hartley

#170328

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth. Career In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for The Rocky Horror Show. He went on to arrange the score for the London Stage and film adaptation as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included Galileo , The Romantic Englishwoman , Aces High , and the remake of The Lady Vanis...

#9163

Joan Trimble

#149471

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Joan Trimble was an Irish composer and pianist, and one of the most distinguished musicians to come from Ulster in the 20th century. She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, and she and her sister performed for many years as a celebrated piano duo. In later years she inherited her father's newspaper and became its proprietor and editor.

#9164

Jay Milner

#170492

Overall Influence

1926 - 2011 (85 years)

Jay Milner was an American journalist, professor and author who worked both for mainstream and alternative publications, and was associated with a group of Texas writers who called themselves the Maddogs and gained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for their literary skills as well as their hard partying.

#9165

Shigeharu Mukai

#122416

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

is a Japanese jazz trombonist. Mukai attended Doshisha University but left before obtaining his degree to become a professional musician. Early in his career he worked with Yoshio Otomo, Ryo Kawasaki, and Hiroshi Fukumura, then led his own ensemble, including a performance at the Shinjuku Jazz Festival. He went on to work with Terumasa Hino, Akira Sakata, Kazumi Watanabe, and Yosuke Yamashita, as well as the ensemble Spik and Span and international musicians such as João Bosco, Billy Hart, and Elvin Jones. In the 1990s and 2000s he taught jazz at Senzoku Gakuen school of music.

#9166

Mass Giorgini

#93166

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Massimiliano Adelmo Giorgini is an American bassist and record producer who rose to fame when several of the bands he produced experienced huge gains in popularity during the pop-punk boom of the mid-'90s. Among these bands was Giorgini's own Squirtgun, which received minor MTV rotation and several soundtrack appearances in major films in the 1990s. Mass Giorgini is also a linguistics scholar specializing in forensic literary analysis and is the son of renowned Italian artist Aldo Giorgini.

#9167

John W. Downey

#171134

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

John W. Downey was a contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator. His works have been performed extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Israel, Asia, Mexico and Canada, as well as throughout the United States.

#9168

Adam Marcus

#155020

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Adam Marcus is an American film director, writer and actor. Family and education Marcus was born in Westport, Connecticut and attended Staples High School. Marcus was raised in Reform Judaism. His brother, Kipp Marcus would become an actor and be nominated for a Young Artist Award Adam Marcus started his career at the age of fifteen, when he co-created the Westport Theatreworks Theatrical Company where he directed and produced over fifty shows in seven years. He then attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he won the coveted Best Picture Award at the Student Academy...

#9169

Warren Boroson

#109329

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Warren Gilbert Boroson was an American author and journalist. He began his career in print journalism, and was best known as managing editor of Fact in 1964, when the magazine ran a controversial survey of psychiatrists on presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's mental fitness for office, which led to a lawsuit and revised ethical guidelines against psychological professionals diagnosing individuals they had not personally evaluated. He subsequently worked as an educator and writer of books about business and personal finance.

#9170

Carl P. Daw Jr.

#142151

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Carl P. Daw Jr. is an American Episcopal priest. He is curator of hymnological collections and adjunct professor of hymnology at Boston University School of Theology, and was executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996 to 2009. In May 2011, he was named a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.

#9171

Matthew Morrison

Matthew Morrison

#124461

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Matthew James Morrison is an American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee . He has starred in multiple Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including appearing as Link Larkin in the original Broadway cast of Hairspray , Fabrizio Nacarelli in the original Broadway cast of the musical The Light in the Piazza , and the starring role of J.M. Barrie in the original Broadway cast of Finding Neverland .

#9172

Red Rodney

#124112

Overall Influence

1927 - 1994 (67 years)

Robert Roland Chudnick , known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940s for the big bands of Jerry Wald, Jimmy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Elliot Lawrence, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown. He was inspired by hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to change his style to bebop, moving on to play with Claude Thornhill, Gene Krupa, and Woody Herman. He was Jewish.

#9173

John Marshall

#103369

Overall Influence

1932 - 2005 (73 years)

John Kennedy Marshall was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Juǀʼhoansi . Background Marshall was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Lorna Marshall and Laurence Kennedy Marshall and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Peterborough, New Hampshire. His sister, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, is a writer. Marshall had one daughter, Sonya. He married Dr. Alexandra Eliot, who had two sons from a previous marriage, Frederick and Christopher Eliot. Marshall held a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Harvard University.

#9174

Rosa Mannion

#176611

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Rosa Mannion is a British operatic soprano who has sung leading roles both in the opera houses of the UK and Europe and in the recording studio. Although particularly known for her roles in the operas of Handel and Mozart, she sang a wide repertoire during her career including Violetta in La traviata and all three of the leading female roles in The Tales of Hoffmann .

#9175

Robert Kraft

#124306

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Robert Kraft is an American songwriter, film composer, recording artist and record producer. As president of Fox Music from 1994 to 2012, he supervised the music for more than 300 Fox feature films, as well as dozens of TV shows. He co-produced the 2016 Score: A Film Music Documentary about film composers and the evolution of Hollywood film music.

#9176

Sanchita Bhattacharya

Sanchita Bhattacharya

#175745

Overall Influence

1992 - Present (34 years)

Sanchita Bhattacharya is an Indian playback singer, composer and television personality. At the age of 14, this makes her the oldest winner in the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs history as well as the first female winner with public voting. She has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages.

#9177

Eric Mendelsohn

#134951

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Eric Mendelsohn is an American film director and screenwriter. Biography Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: Through an Open Window in 1992 and Judy Berlin in 1999., which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. His third film, 3 Backyards, also earned the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, making him the only person in history to receive that honor twice. Mendelsohn also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2017 film Love After Love with Russell Harbaugh.

#9178

J. Robbins

#82765

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

James Robbins, better known as J. Robbins, is an American rock musician. Career Robbins began his career as a bassist for Government Issue, and has also led five of his own bands: Jawbox, Rollkicker Laydown, Burning Airlines, Channels, and Office of Future Plans. He was a touring bassist for Scream and played bass on the debut 7" from Jack Potential, which was issued by DeSoto Records in 1993. More recently he played bass in Report Suspicious Activity with Vic Bondi, which released two albums on Alternative Tentacles Records.

#9179

Eleanor Alberga

#175905

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Her most recent compositions include two Violin Concertos, a Trumpet Concerto and a Symphony.

#9180

Julie L. Green

#168650

Overall Influence

1961 - 2021 (60 years)

Julie Lynn Green was an American artist known for making paintings about food, fashion, and capital punishment. She spent half of each year on her work, The Last Supper, a series of 1000 plates, illustrating final meals of U.S. death row inmates.

#9181

Gaya Herrington

#68453

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Gaya Herrington is a Dutch econometrician, sustainability researcher, and women's rights activist. Herrington is best known for being the founder of the project and foundation Stop Straatintimidatie, an initiative seeking to criminalize street harassment in the Netherlands, and for her activism and research on sustainability issues.

#9182

Philip Munger

#135145

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Philip Munger is an American composer, music educator, political blogger, and environmentalist living in Alaska. He is perhaps best known for "The Skies are Weeping", a seven-movement cantata written in tribute to Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement killed in 2003 by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces while she tried to prevent a house demolition in the southern Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. He currently lectures on cultural history at two campuses of the University of Alaska Anchorage and occasionally teaches tuba at the main Anchorage campus.

#9183

Alan Dawson

#121908

Overall Influence

1929 - 1996 (67 years)

Alan Dawson was an American jazz drummer and percussion teacher based in Boston. Biography Dawson was born in Marietta, Pennsylvania and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he played with the Army Dance Band while stationed at Fort Dix from 1951 to 1953. During his tenure, Dawson explored the post-bop era by performing with pianist Sabby Lewis. After being discharged from the army, Dawson toured Europe with Lionel Hampton.

#9184

Nobuko Imai

#131352

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

, is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument. Biography Born in Tokyo, Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and switched to viola there. Then she went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International Music Competition at Muni...

#9185

Beverly Wolff

#157344

Overall Influence

1928 - 2005 (77 years)

Beverly Wolff was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert works in many languages and from a variety of musical periods. She was a champion of new works, notably premiering compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Ned Rorem among other American composers. She also performed in a number of rarely heard baroque operas by George Frideric Handel with the New York City Opera , the Handel Society of New York, and at the K...

#9186

John Woo

#174124

Overall Influence

#9187

Gopi Sundar

#95138

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Gopi Sundar C. S. is an Indian music director, programmer, playback singer, songwriter, actor and performer who works in the Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil film industries. He began his career composing music for television commercials, and is credited with writing nearly 5,000 jingles. As a keyboardist he has collaborated with many music directors, including the composer duo Vishal–Shekhar. He has won several accolades for his soundtrack albums and film scores, including a National Film Award, a Kerala State Film Award, and two Filmfare Awards South.

#9188

Constance Weldon

#77114

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Constance Weldon was an American tuba player, who was the first woman to play the instrument in a major American orchestra. Early life Constance Janet Weldon was born in Winter Haven, Florida, on January 25, 1932. Her father, George, was a groundskeeper and soon after Weldon was born the family moved to Miami, where he worked on the Vizcaya estate. Her mother Edythe Roebke was a teacher. Weldon started playing instruments at school, and by the time she was due to graduate from Miami Jackson High School, she had decided to study at the University of Miami and specialise in tuba performance. Sh...

#9189

John C. Walsh

#170294

Overall Influence

John C. Walsh is an American independent film director and screenwriter who initially gained recognition with the debut of his film Ed's Next Move at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. He has also directed the film Pipe Dream and most recently wrote the screenplay for Dalíland .

#9190

Mina Cheon

#126250

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Mina Cheon is a Korean American new media artist, scholar, and educator. Since 1997, she has been living between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. Early life and education Cheon was born in Seoul, South Korea. Being the daughter of a South Korean diplomat and cultural attache, she grew up in the cities of Seoul, New York, Copenhagen, and Ottawa.

#9191

Steve Slagle

#160359

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Steve Slagle is an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Slagle was born in Los Angeles and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. He received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music and received a master's degree in Music From Manhattan School of Music. He came to New York in 1976, first working with Machito and his Afro-Cuban orchestra, and then toured and recorded with Ray Barretto, Steve Kuhn, Lionel Hampton, Brother Jack McDuff, and Carla Bley. He also performed and traveled with Woody Herman and Cab Calloway. In the mid-1980s, he began leading his own combos, first with Mike Stern and Jaco Pastorius, and then with Dave Stryker.

#9192

Stephen Brown

#175071

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Stephen John Brown is a Canadian composer. He holds ARCT Diplomas in both Theory and Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music and is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre. Brown, composer-in-residence, at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, British Columbia, was the Composition and Theory Department Head, and an examination designer and syllabus design consultant for the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. He served as a juror for the British Columbia Arts Council , and is a clinician and adjudicator in Western Canada.

#9193

Zinka Zorko

#36749

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Zinka Zorko was a Slovenian linguist and academic. Her research focused on phonetic, theological, syntactic, and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups. In 2003, she was elected a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a decade later, she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award.

#9194

Barbara Lea

#169011

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Barbara Lea was an American jazz singer. Music career Lea was born and raised in Detroit. Her father was a clarinetist before becoming attorney general of Michigan. He changed the family name from LeCocq to Leacock, which she changed to Lea when beginning her singing career. She decided at an early age to become a singer, participating in contests and singing with dance bands. She attended Wellesley College near Boston and studied music theory. She worked at the Storyville club when singer Lee Wiley performed there in the early 1950s. Her debut solo album, Woman in Love, was released in 1955.

#9195

Kory Katseanes

#170852

Overall Influence

Kory Katseanes is a Professor of Music and the Director of Orchestras at the BYU School of Music and was the director of the School of Music from 2009-2015. Brigham Young University The orchestra program at BYU is one of the largest collegiate orchestra programs in the United States. He has also been a guest conductor for multiple orchestras.

#9196

Jameson Marvin

#159017

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jameson Neil Marvin is an American choral conductor, composer, arranger, and editor. Between 1978 and 2010, Marvin directed the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and has also taught choral conducting at Harvard University. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music from the University of Illinois, a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked with Howard Swan and Robert Shaw, and his students have gone on to lead major choruses throughout the country.

#9197

Dan Dugmore

#62895

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying Burrito Brothers member Sneaky Pete Kleinow sold him one. Dugmore then joined John Stewart's road band, and then Linda Ronstadt's; he also played for several James Taylor albums. In the 1990s, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he began playing steel guitar on country music albums. He self-released a Beatles cover album in 2003 titled Off White Album.

#9198

Ben Johnston

#116781

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Ben Hamilton Johnston is a drummer, vocalist, songwriter and member of Scottish group Biffy Clyro. Early life Johnston was born and raised in Kilmarnock with his twin brother James Johnston , and his younger brother, Adam .

#9199

Richard Bunger Evans

#170686

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Richard Bunger Evans, also known as Richard Bunger, is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote "the classic book on John Cage," The Well-Prepared Piano. Evans has composed and performed music for opera and musical theatre, piano, art songs, prepared piano, choral music, string orchestra and chamber music. He continues to compose and perform in these various genres, and is especially respected as a collaborator with singers. During his 17-year career as a music professor, Evans was named one of two statewide Outstanding Professors of 1981–1982 in the 2...

#9200

Josephine Yaroshevich

#185033

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Josephine Yaroshevich is a painter and pioneer in the field of Computer Art. Biography Josephine Yaroshevich was born in Kharkiv to a Jewish family, and grew up in Odesa. She studied art at Odesa with well-known painters Lev Mejberg and Zoy Ivnitzkaia. She also studied at the Moscow Art Academy under the guidance of professor Volia Nikolatvich Liahov. She taught at the Stroganoff Academy and Polygraphists Institute, and worked at the famous Taganka Theater, both in Moscow. There, she was associated with Nonconformistss Group. The origins of her art stem from the Russian Avant-garde; Kandinsky...

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