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#9401

Charles Richard-Hamelin

#172725

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Charles Richard-Hamelin is a Canadian concert pianist from Joliette, Quebec. Early life and education Richard-Hamelin was born in Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada, and took his first piano lessons with his father. He studied at McGill University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 2011. He completed his master's degree at Yale School of Music in 2013.

#9402

Aurel Stroe

#170081

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Aurel Stroe was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist. In 2002 he was awarded the Herder Prize from the University of Vienna; and in 2006 he was awarded the Promaetheus Prize by the Anonimul Foundation.

#9403

Kevin Hathway

#180482

Overall Influence

Kevin Hathway is an English percussionist and educator. Besides being a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, a position he has held since 1979, he is head of wind, brass and percussion at the Purcell School. He is a diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and co-devised their timpani, snare drum and tuned percussion examination syllabus.

#9404

Arthur Weisberg

#163815

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Arthur Weisberg was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author. Biography Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art, majoring in bassoon and studying with Simon Kovar, and graduating in 1948.

#9405

Harvey Sollberger

#168403

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Harvey Sollberger is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music. Life Sollberger holds an M.A. degree from Columbia University, where his composition instructors included Jack Beeson and Otto Luening. In 1962 he co-founded The Group for Contemporary Music in New York City, which he directed for 27 years.

#9406

Helen Ward

#168401

Overall Influence

1913 - 1998 (85 years)

Helen Ward was an American jazz singer. She appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC and worked as a staff musician at WNYC. Early years Ward came from a musical family and was a native of New York City. As a high school student, she sang with bands, including the one led by Eddy Duchin.

#9407

George McElroy

#178015

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

George Albert McElroy was an American journalist. Born in Houston, Texas, he served in the United States Armed Forces before pursuing a career in journalism. Among many "firsts" achieved by McElroy, he became the first African American to earn a master's degree in journalism from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

#9408

Tom Schulman

#98708

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Thomas H. Schulman is an American screenwriter best known for his semi-autobiographical screenplay Dead Poets Society, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. Biography Following high school, Schulman earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, graduating in 1972 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Schulman pursued his interest in film at the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Cinema.

#9409

Mark Jackson

#172860

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Mark Jackson is an English actor best known for playing artificial lifeform Isaac on the American Fox/Hulu television series The Orville . Early life Mark Jackson was born on in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe, to British parents Jill Cornelius, a nurse from Coventry, and Andy Jackson, an engineer from Birkenhead. He has a younger sister named Danielle who works as an environmental professional.

#9410

Mercedes Teixido

#181360

Overall Influence

Mercedes M. Teixido is an American visual artist. She is the Loren Barton Babcock Miller Fine Arts Professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. External links Personal websiteFaculty page at Pomona College

#9411

T. M. Soundararajan

#91782

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan , popularly known as TMS, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six and a half decades. He sang over 10,138 songs from 3,162 films, including devotional, semi-classical, Carnatic, classical and light music songs. He gave classical concerts starting in 1943.

#9412

Richard Davis

#145157

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Richard Davis is an American electronic music composer and producer, hailing from Detroit, Michigan. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he and Juan Atkins met while students at Washtenaw Community College. Following this, they formed the group known as Cybotron in the early 1980s. Davis also released music of his own under the alias 3070. As Cybotron and 3070, Davis had a heavy hand in the foundation of Detroit's nascent techno music scene in the 1980s.

#9413

Daniel Petrie Jr.

#137409

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Daniel Mannix Petrie Jr. is a Canadian-American producer, writer, and director of film and television. He is best known for pioneering the sub-genres of action comedy and buddy cop films through films like Beverly Hills Cop and Turner & Hooch. He served as President of the Writers Guild of America, West between 1997 and 1999, and then again between 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors at the Writers Guild Foundation.

#9414

Joe Buck

#131705

Overall Influence

Joe Buck is the stage name of Jim Finklea, an American country and punk rock musician from Murray, Kentucky. His primary instruments are double bass and guitar. Joe Buck's first serious musical project was called Gringo. They released self-titled "Gringo" on Pravda Records in 1995. The lineup consisted of Jim on vocals and guitar, Leila Vartanian on vocals and bass, and Tim Krause, who produced the CD, playing drums. It is a polarized collection of ballads and throbbing rockers. The follow-up CD, "Combine" was released on Pravda Records in 1997. It is a blend of country and newgrass and is musically distinct from the first CD.

#9415

Robert Levin

#120641

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Robert David Levin is an American classical pianist, musicologist, and composer who served as the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2017. Education Born in Brooklyn, Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School, and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He attended Harvard, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1968 with a thesis entitled The Unfinished Works of W. A. Mozart.

#9416

Gary Thomas

#163228

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gary Thomas is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Steve Coleman, and Miles Davis.

#9417

David Ford

#158546

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

David James Ford is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and songwriter. He first achieved prominence with the indie rock group Easyworld, who released an independent mini-album, ...Better Ways to Self Destruct and two full-length albums on Jive Records before disbanding in 2004.

#9418

Alessandra Celletti

Alessandra Celletti

#131410

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Alessandra Celletti is an Italian pianist, vocalist, songwriter and composer, best known as an interpreter of Erik Satie. Biography Alessandra Celletti comes from a purely classical background, graduating at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and perfecting herself with Vera Gobbi Belcredi. She has played in Italy, France, England, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Spain, United States, Mozambique, Tunisia, India.

#9419

Steve Jordan

#172842

Overall Influence

1919 - 1993 (74 years)

Steve Philip Jordan was an American jazz guitarist. Career Jordan was born in New York City. He considered himself a rhythm guitarist whose biggest influences were George Van Eps and Allan Reuss. He received lessons from Reuss, who played rhythm guitar for Benny Goodman In the early 1940s Jordan was a member of bands led by Will Bradley, Artie Shaw, and Teddy Powell. After serving with the Navy in World War II, he returned to music as a member of bands led by Bob Chester, Freddie Slack, Glen Gray, Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, and Boyd Raeburn.

#9420

Irvin Mayfield

#123481

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Irvin Mayfield Jr. is an American trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator. On November 3, 2021, Mayfield was sentenced to 18 months in prison for defrauding the New Orleans public library system for over one million dollars.

#9421

Garland Kirkpatrick

#178950

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Garland Kirkpatrick is an American designer, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles. Career Kirkpatrick's work includes: social graphics visualizing complex socio-political issues ranging from the criminal justice system - capital punishment, mass incarceration, police brutality, and recidivism - to the environment, HIV-AIDS, homophobia, immigrant rights, and racism; and graphic design for cultural institutions, and community based organizations.

#9422

Richard T. Cole

#98180

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Richard Thomas Cole was full professor and past chairperson of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State University. He serves on the advisory board for Huntington National Bank Inc. in Southeast Michigan and the steering committee of the Center for Michigan, Ann Arbor.

#9423

Jan Sandström

#149779

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jan Sandström is a Swedish classical music composer. His compositions include the so-called Motorbike Concerto for trombone and orchestra and his choral setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen. Career Born in Vilhelmina, Västerbotten County, Sandström grew up in Stockholm. He studied at the Luleå University of Technology's Piteå School of Music and completed his music training at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, studying music theory and composition with Gunnar Bucht, Brian Ferneyhough and Pär Lindgren .

#9424

Andres Briner

#129800

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Andres Briner was a Swiss music historian, academic and art journalist Life Briner was born in Zürich and educated at the University of Zurich. In musicology he was a student of Paul Hindemith. In 1953 he received his doctorate from Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez at the University of Zurich. From 1968, Briner was active at the as a member of the foundation board, and from 1986 to 1998 he was its president.

#9425

K. Newell Dayley

#170755

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

K. Newell Dayley is a prominent Latter Day Saint composer, hymnwriter and musician. He was a professor of music at Brigham Young University and later served as the associate academic vice president for undergraduate studies at that institution. He retired from BYU in September 2007.

#9426

John Shirley

#116588

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Shirley is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, dark street fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays—including The Crow—and has published over 84 books including 10 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. His newest novels are Stormland and Axle Bus...

#9427

Craig Wood

#162334

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

#9428

Howard Brown

#176582

Overall Influence

1920 - 2001 (81 years)

Howard Fuller Brown was a Canadian pianist, harpsichordist, and music educator, and was active as a concert pianist and recitalist in Atlantic Canada during the mid-twentieth century, appearing as a soloist with many important Canadian symphony orchestras. He also performed on numerous broadcasts with CBC Radio.

#9429

Max Rostal

#131656

Overall Influence

1905 - 1991 (86 years)

Max Rostal was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship. Biography Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studying the violin at the age of 5, and played in front of Emperor Franz Josef I in 1913.

#9430

Lyrics Born

#106237

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Tsutomu "Tom" Shimura , better known by his stage name Lyrics Born , is a Japanese-American rapper, singer, and producer. He is one half of the duo Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker. Early life Shimura was born in Tokyo and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and Berkeley, California. He attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida.

#9431

Martin Bell

#176929

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Martin Bell is an American film director best known for films such as Streetwise and American Heart. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Streetwise. Career Documentaries In 1983, Bell's wife, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, was hired by Life magazine to photograph a story on homeless children in Seattle, Washington with writer Cheryl McCall. The essay was titled "Streets of the Lost" and was published in July 1983. Having befriended many of the homeless children, Mark contacted her husband who flew to Seattle to document them on film. The project was eventually rele...

#9432

Jave Yoshimoto

#85382

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto is an American painter. Early life and education Jave Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan on September 17, 1974. His parents are Chinese and he immigrated to California when he was nine years old. He has lived all over the United States and received his Bachelors of Art in Studio Art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2004. He received a Masters of Art in Art Therapy in 2007 and he has also received a Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing in 2008 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He then received a Masters of Fine Arts in Pain...

#9433

Miloš Okuka

#92955

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Miloš Okuka is a Serbian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and literature historian. After teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, from 1992 till 2009 he served as a lecturer at the University of Munich.

#9434

Jimmy Johnson

#161850

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

James Earl Thompson , known professionally as Jimmy Johnson, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Early life Johnson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on November 25, 1928. Several of his brothers had careers in music, among them soul musician Syl Johnson and bassist Mack Thompson, who played with Magic Sam. In his younger years, he played piano and sang in gospel groups. He and his family moved to Chicago in 1950, where he worked as a welder and played guitar in his spare time. He began playing professionally with Slim Willis in 1959, changing his last name to Johnson, as did his brother Syl.

#9435

Orsat Ligorio

#174784

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Orsat Ligorio is a Croatian and Serbian linguist who is a professor of Ancient Greek and Sanskrit at the University of Belgrade and an author of a number of publications in Indo-European etymology. Life Ligorio was born in 1985 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Ligorio obtained his MA in Classics and Linguistics from the University of Zagreb in 2009.

#9436

Agha

#130617

Overall Influence

1914 - 1992 (78 years)

Agha was an Indian actor of Bollywood films. He was known for comic roles and modeled himself on Bob Hope's style of acting. He appeared in over 300 Hindi films in his career between 1935 and 1986. His son, Jalal Agha, also became an actor, mostly known for the song Mehbooba Mehbooba in Sholay .

#9437

Stephen McNally

#173385

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Stephen Patrick McNally is an English singer and songwriter, best known for his work with BBMak. Biography McNally began playing guitar in 1990 and had occasional lessons from Cast lead guitarist Liam Tyson. He then formed his first band, The Mist, with some high school friends and started writing songs.

#9438

Bernard Zinck

#173485

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Bernard Zinck is a French-born violinist and pedagogue who spends most of his performing and teaching career in the United States and France. He plays the Fiebelmann Rogeri, considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Giovanni Battista Rogeri.

#9439

Susan McCullough

#181469

Overall Influence

Susan McCullough is a professor at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, in the United States of America, and a respected and experienced French horn recitalist. She performs regularly at horn society conferences around the world, and as a soloist in America. She often performs in tandem with her son, Jesse McCormick the second horn in the Cleveland Orchestra. In 2008, Susan Hosted the 40th International Horn Symposium at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. This Symposium set record attendance of over 800 participants.

#9440

Paul Johnson

#166759

Overall Influence

Paul Johnson is a guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work in instrumental surf music and the track "Mr. Moto" by his band The Bel-Airs. External links http://pjmoto.com/ Official sitehttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-johnson-mn0000020790/biographyhttps://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/J/Johnson,_Paul/https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ab3e5c8a-1097-4809-a021-6d3399f4e029

#9441

Carla Henius

#142529

Overall Influence

1919 - 2002 (83 years)

Carla Henius was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist. She played a decisive role in promoting recent works by composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono for the stage. She wrote the libretto for an opera by Aribert Reimann.

#9442

Charles Brown

#167901

Overall Influence

1946 - 2004 (58 years)

Charles Brown was an American actor and a member of New York City, New York theater troupe the Negro Ensemble Company. He was best known for his performances in Off-Broadway and Broadway plays by Samm-Art Williams and August Wilson.

#9443

Aldo Ceccato

#130569

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Aldo Ceccato is an Italian conductor. Ceccato was born in Milan. He worked as assistant to Sergiu Celibidache and was music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1973 until 1977. Then, from 1976 until 1982, he was music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic. He was also music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 until 1990. He is the son-in-law of conductor Victor de Sabata and has made a recording of de Sabata's compositions for the Hyperion record label. In 1971, he recorded Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Verdi's La traviata, both with Beverly Sills.

#9444

Steve Miller

#82625

Overall Influence

Steve Miller is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast, and other role-playing games. Early life and education Steve Miller wanted to be a writer from an early age: "Actually, when I was in first grade, I wanted to be a sheriff's deputy... Then I wrote a little book in first grade called 'The Man Who Watches' about a sheriff's deputy, and I won some sort of prize for it. From then on, I wanted to be a writer." After Miller graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in English, wit...

#9445

Sujatha Mohan

#96087

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Sujatha Mohan is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies. She has also sung for Kannada, Badaga, Hindi and Marathi and more languages movies. , she had recorded more than 10,000 songs.

#9446

Hossein Omoumi

#156489

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Hossein Omoumi is an Iranian-born master musician of the ney , composer, scholar, and teacher of Persian traditional music. He is the Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts in the department of music within the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, at the University of California, Irvine .

#9447

Pozzi Escot

#159293

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Life Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru, her father was a French professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, Marius Emmanuel Pozzi Escot, and her mother was Lucía María Zapata Hurtado. After living in Peru, she went to France.

#9448

Gordon W. Bowie

#179722

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Gordon W. Bowie , bass trombonist, composer and conductor, was director of the Montgomery Village Community Band in Montgomery County, Maryland. He was bass trombonist for the Virginia Grand Military Band, Legacy Brass and other DC area ensembles. In addition, for the 1999-2000 school year he served as band and orchestra director for St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes Schools in Alexandria, Virginia.

#9449

Gerrit Versteeg

#57308

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gerrit Versteeg is a Dutch enterprise architect and management consultant, known for his work in defining the field of business architecture. Biography Versteeg started his studies at the HTS Amsterdam in 1977, where he received his BA in Information Technology in 1981. During his career he received another BA in Business Informatics at the HEAO Utrecht in 1987, his MA in Strategic Management from the Rotterdam School of Management in 2000, and pursued his PhD research in Business Architecture at the Delft University of Technology from 2004 to 2007.

#9450

Julia Thornton

#156552

Overall Influence

Julia Thornton is a professional harpist, who to date has released two albums: Harpistry and Eye of the Storm . Musical life and career Julia Thornton began to play the harp aged 11. Having wanted to do so since the age of three, her parents initially managed to stave off her persistence, allowing her piano lessons at the age of 9. Eighteen months later, having taken well to the piano, she was allowed to have her first harp lesson.

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