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#9551

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi

#132625

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi is a world renowned Japanese cellist. Education He started to study music under the tutorship of Hideo Saito, founder of the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Chōfu, Tokyo from where he would graduate.

#9552

Randy Scruggs

#89775

Overall Influence

1953 - 2018 (65 years)

Randy Lynn Scruggs was an American music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13. He won four Grammy Awards and was named Musician of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards three times. He was the middle son of Earl Scruggs and Louise Scruggs.

#9553

Fiora Contino

#146251

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Fiora Corradetti Contino was an American opera conductor and teacher. She was particularly known for her interpretations of Italian verismo works of the late 19th century, and was described as one of the most important figures in opera of the 20th century. Anne Midgette of The New York Times once suggested that she "might have had a far bigger career had she been a man".

#9554

John Psathas

#113764

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

John Psathas, is a New Zealand Greek composer. He has works in the repertoire of such high-profile musicians as Evelyn Glennie, Michael Houstoun, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and is one of New Zealand's most frequently performed composers. He has established an international profile and receives regular commissions from organisations in New Zealand and overseas.

#9555

Elaine Thornburgh

#179632

Overall Influence

Elaine Thornburgh is an American keyboardist; she teaches harpsichord at Stanford University. As a soloist, she was semi-finalist in the Sixth International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, Belgium in 1980, and she also received a National Endowment of the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant in 1984.

#9556

Scott Brown

#169628

Overall Influence

Scott George Brown is a Canadian bassist who is a member of the Canadian rock band Trooper. He has also worked with vocalist Paul Laine, both as a solo artist and with Danger Danger. Brown joined Trooper in 1996 and has toured with the band ever since, making him one of the longest-running members in the band's history. Brown was featured when Trooper performed in the 2010 Olympics Victory Ceremonies in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 21 February 2010. Coverage of the event was broadcast in Canada and around the world on networks such as CTV and MuchMusic.

#9557

William Chapman

#171976

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

William Chapman was an American operatic baritone and stage actor. He appeared in several Broadway productions and was notably a leading performer at the New York City Opera from 1957 through 1979. Early career Born in Los Angeles, Chapman graduated from the University of Southern California and pursued vocal training with William De Mille, Edward Lippi, and Leon Cepparo in his native city. He moved to New York City in 1954 and began studying with Raymond Smolover. He starred Off-Broadway in Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb's 1955 musical Arabian Nights at the Jones Beach Marine Theatre opposite Lauritz Melchior and Helena Scott.

#9558

Richie Beirach

#162707

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Richard Alan Beirach is an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Beirach was born in New York City. He initially studied both classical music and jazz. While still attending high school, he took lessons from pianist Lennie Tristano. Beirach later entered the Berklee College of Music. After one year, he left Berklee and began attending the Manhattan School of Music. While there, he studied with Ludmilla Ulehla. In 1972, he graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master's Degree in Music Theory and Composition.

#9559

John W. Sutherland

#106387

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

John William Sutherland is professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University who specializes in the application of sustainability principles to design, manufacturing, and other industrial issues.

#9560

Haruka Tomatsu

#169399

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

is a Japanese actress and singer, employed by Music Ray'n. She received the Rookie of the Year award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards and the Synergy Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards. Tomatsu voiced Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online, Zero Two in Darling in the Franxx, Lala Satalin Deviluke in To LOVE-Ru, Kyoko Hori in Horimiya, Morgiana in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic and Naruko "Anaru" Anjo in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day.

#9561

Danko Šipka

#150129

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Danko Šipka is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University. Biography He was born in Banja Luka in 1962. He graduated Slavistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1985 and later obtained PhD in linguistics at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He was educated at Polish Academy of Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, and University of Belgrade in the fields of linguistics and psychology. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright program, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow. He received fellowships from the Australian National University, and Hokkaido University, Japan.

#9562

Miriam Gideon

#140470

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Miriam Gideon was an American composer. Life Miriam Gideon was born in Greeley, Colorado, on October 23, 1906. She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She also studied with Martin Bernstein, Marion Bauer, Charles Haubiel, and Jacques Pillois. She studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Lazare Saminsky and at his suggestion also composition with Roger Sessions, after which she abandoned tonality and wrote in a freely atonal or extended post-tonal style. She attended Boston University and graduated with a degree in music in 1926.

#9563

Daniel Asia

#160583

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Daniel Asia is an American composer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. Biography He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale School of Music. His major teachers include Jacob Druckman, Stephen Albert, Gunther Schuller, and Isang Yun in composition, and Arthur Weisberg in conducting. Asia's works ranges from solo pieces to large-scale multi-movement works for orchestra, including five symphonies.

#9564

Ruth Ziesak

#172680

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Ruth Ziesak is a German soprano in opera and concert. Career Ruth Ziesak studied voice at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Elsa Cavelti and Christoph Prégardien. She has been a member of the Municipal Theatre Heidelberg since 1988 and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1990.

#9565

Dmitri Alexeev

#180388

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Dmitri Alexeev is a Russian pianist. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and additionally under Dmitri Bashkirov. In the 1970s, Alexeev made his debuts in London, Vienna, Chicago, and New York City, and also won the Leeds Piano Competition in 1975.

#9566

Richard Popplewell

#180349

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Richard Popplewell LVO was an English organist and composer who served at the Chapel Royal and St Michael's, Cornhill. Works His music was published by Banks. Choral A vast cloud of love I will lift up mine eyes Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D-flatO how amiable There is no rose Two Final Amens

#9567

John Ferrillo

#176796

Overall Influence

John Ferrillo is an American oboist. He has been the Principal Oboe of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2001. He is also member at the Tanglewood Music Center. Prior to these posts, he was Co-Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York from 1986 to 2001 as well as a former teacher at the Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music. Ferrillo studied with John de Lancie at the Curtis Institute of Music.

#9568

Martin Amlin

#178781

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Martin Amlin is an American composer and pianist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He serves as the Mildred P. Gilfillan Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Composition and Theory at the Boston University College of Fine Arts as well as Senior Director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program.

#9569

Dieter Goltzsche

#141930

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Dieter Goltzsche is a German painter and graphic designer. He won the Hans-Theo-Richter-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in 2010. Exhibitions 1964 Kunstkabinett des Instituts für Lehrerweiterbildung, Berlin1967 Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden1968 Galerie im Turm, Berlin; Wort und Werk, Leipzig; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Görlitz1982 Altes Museum, Berlin; Galerie Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl-Marx-Stadt; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin; Berlin State Museums1985 Galerie im Cranachhaus, Weimar1986 Galerie Oben, Karl-Marx-Stadt1988 Galerie der Deutschen Bücherstube, Berlin1989 galerie erph, Erfurt1990...

#9570

Kitty Carlisle

#155108

Overall Influence

1910 - 2007 (97 years)

Kitty Carlisle Hart was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth . She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts.

#9571

Juhan Peegel

#176398

Overall Influence

1919 - 2007 (88 years)

Juhan Peegel was Estonian journalist, linguist and writer. From 1941 to 1945, he served as a soldier in the Estonian Rifle Regiment. In 1951, he graduated from Tartu University. From 1947 to 1952, he worked at the editorial office of the newspaper Edasi.

#9572

Mark Kaplan

#171162

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mark Kaplan is an American violinist who studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay. He is currently a professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Before teaching at Indiana, Kaplan taught at UCLA in California.

#9573

Susan Price

#169977

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Susan Ann Price, is a British academic, previously the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, West Yorkshire, a position which she took up on 1 January 2010 following the resignation of Simon Lee in January 2009. Price was Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of East London, to which office she was appointed in 2008 after having been Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2007 and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor from 2002.

#9574

R. Luke DuBois

#168329

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Roger Luke DuBois is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City. Early life DuBois was born in Morristown, New Jersey, United States, moving at age 11 to the UK, where he attended the American School in London, before moving to New York City in 1993 to attend Columbia University. DuBois holds a master's and a doctorate in music composition from Columbia , and worked as a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center until 2008.

#9575

Gerhard Präsent

#177122

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Gerhard Präsent is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher. Professional career Born in Graz, Präsent studied from 1976 at the Musikhochschule Graz, composition with Iván Erőd and conducting with Milan Horvat. He graduated in 1982 in composition and in 1985 in conducting, in both subjects with distinction. He then taught at the institute. Until 1999 he held a composers' workshop, responsible for 48 concert programs. From 1986 to 1992 he was an assistant to Erőd, and also to Horvat for the orchestra. In 1992 he was appointed professor for music theory, musical form, analysis, cond...

#9576

David Green

#147883

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David Green is a British film director, television producer and media executive. Biography Green, born in London, England, to Evelyn Morris and Louis Green, was educated at Bury Grammar School and at Trinity College, Oxford, from where he graduated as a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature.

#9577

William Brice

#117568

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

William Charles Brice was a British ethnographer and linguist. Biography Brice was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, and studied geography at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupting his studies to serve in India during the Second World War, protecting railways near Madras and supplying maps to troops, for which he was awarded the Burma Star. He then participated in an archaeological expedition to eastern Turkey, exploring frontier forts of the Roman empire. He was appointed lecturer in geography at Manchester University in 1947, returning to Oxford in 1951 as assistant curator and lecturer in ethnology at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

#9578

Lamberto V. Avellana

Lamberto V. Avellana

#138492

Overall Influence

1915 - 1991 (76 years)

Lamberto Vera Avellana was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana's films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the first National Artist of the Philippines for Film. While Avellana remains an important figure in Filipino cinema, his reputation as a film director has since been eclipsed by the next wave of Filipino film directors who emerged in the 1970s, such as Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

#9579

Kei Akagi

#120864

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Kei Akagi is a Japanese American jazz pianist. In particular, he is known for his work with the Airto Moreira/Flora Purim group and in Miles Davis's band in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Japan, but lived in Cleveland, Ohio, for part of his childhood, until he moved back to Japan at the age of 12. He later returned to the United States at 22. He is associated with the Californian jazz scene at present. He is the Chancellor Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine.

#9580

John Lawrence

#171585

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

John Lawrence is a Welsh musician. He was a founding member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, but left the band in 1999, prior to the release of the band's sixth album Spanish Dance Troupe. As a solo artist, he has sometimes gone by the name Infinity Chimps.

#9581

Earl Carroll

#176240

Overall Influence

1937 - 2012 (75 years)

Earl "Speedo" Carroll was the lead vocalist of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. The group's biggest hit was "Speedoo", which with a minor spelling change became Carroll's subsequent nickname. It was released in 1955. He joined The Coasters in 1961, leaving the group in the early 1980s to permanently reform The Cadillacs.

#9582

Elizabeth Fischer Monastero

#145673

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Fischer Monastero is an American operatic mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. Life and career Born Elizabeth Fischer and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, Fischer Monastero graduated with a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan in 1956. She also studied with tenor Richard Miller at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and with Clara Bloomfield of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

#9583

Marco Piva

#103292

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Marco Piva, Italian architect, interior designer and product designer, born on February 15, 1952, in Milan. Biography He graduated in architecture at Politecnico di Milano and founded STUDIODADA in 1977, that was one of the main design offices of the radical period.

#9584

David Oppenheim

David Oppenheim

#132893

Overall Influence

1922 - 2007 (85 years)

David Jerome Oppenheim was an American clarinetist, and classical music and television producer. Oppenheim directed the Masterworks division of Columbia Records from 1950 to 1959. During this time he worked with numerous major figures in the music world including Igor Stravinsky, with whom he formed a friendship, later producing for him. In the 1960s, he worked for the television production company Robert Saudek Associates and worked as a writer and producer for CBS from 1962 to 1967. His 1964 documentary about cellist Pablo Casals, Casals at 88, won the Prix Italia. He was the second Dean of...

#9585

Paul Cooper

#173515

Overall Influence

1926 - 1996 (70 years)

Paul Cooper was an American composer and teacher of classical music. Born in Victoria, Illinois, he received degrees from the University of Southern California, where his teachers included Ernest Kanitz, Halsey Stevens, and Roger Sessions. He also studied with Nadia Boulanger as a Fulbright Fellow from 1953-1954.

#9586

Frances Bible

#176695

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Frances Lillian Bible was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had a thirty-year career at the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1978. She also made a number of opera appearances with other companies throughout the United States, but only made a limited number of appearances abroad. Martin Bernheimer wrote in Opera News that, "Frances Bible was cheated by destiny. She never quite achieved the international recognition she deserved. Bible had it all—a mellow, wide-ranging mezzo-soprano, an attractive stage presence, genuine theatrical flair, a probing mind and a technique that allowed her to sing bel-canto filigree one night, Verdian drama the next.

#9587

David Shifrin

#170648

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Shifrin is an American classical clarinetist and artistic director. Biography David Shifrin received early musical training at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1963. He attended the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory in 1968 and later graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1971, where he studied with Anthony Gigliotti.

#9588

Michael Wolff

#88683

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Michael Blieden Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer, and actor. He was the bandleader on The Arsenio Hall Show . Wolff was honored as a Steinway Artist and obtained a Broadcast Music, Inc. award. He provided the score for and co-produced The Tic Code . He also co-starred with his sons, Nat and Alex, in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band , earning him a BMI Cable Award for producing and supervising the series' music. Wolff was the leader of the jazz band Impure Thoughts. Reconstructed as Wolff & Clark Expedition, it is a jazz-funk group.

#9589

Joe Duddell

#169975

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Joe Duddell is a composer, musician and conductor from Manchester, UK, and former Associate Professor of Music in the School of Music and Performing Arts of Bath Spa University. He worked with British indie rock groups James, Elbow and Daughter. he is senior professional tutor in music composition at Liverpool Hope University and teaches at the LIPA.

#9590

Achyuth Kumar

#118544

Overall Influence

Achyuth Kumar is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Kannada cinema, along with some Tamil films. He is well known for his performances in the K.G.F film series, Kantara, Sidlingu, and Lucia. He is the recipient of three Filmfare Awards and two Karnataka State Film Awards, one each in Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor categories.

#9591

Iyanla Vanzant

#84414

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Iyanla Vanzant is an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, her eponymous talk show, and her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. From 2012 to 2021, she served as host of OWN's Iyanla: Fix My Life.

#9592

Abd al-Qadir Qitt

#138900

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Abd al-Qadir Hassan Al-Qitt was a prominent Egyptian poet, critic, and writer. He was born in Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate, and held a doctorate in Arabic literature and literary criticism. Al-Qat edited the “Poetry” magazine in 1964, and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University in 1972. He received the King Faisal International Prize in Literature in 1980 and the State Appreciation Award in 1985, and was the editor-in-chief of the “Ibdaa” magazine for theatre and cinema in 1983.

#9593

Mark Snow

#139618

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Mark Snow is an American composer for film and television. Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for science fiction television series The X-Files. The X Files theme tune was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where the series aired on BBC Two and BBC One, in early-1996, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Snow also wrote the music for another Chris Carter series, Millennium, and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons.

#9594

Matt Pivec

#132087

Overall Influence

Matt Pivec is an American saxophonist and the director of Jazz Studies at Butler University. Work Pivec has been a prolific saxophonist working with several leading musicians and musical groups including Ray Charles, The Temptations, Dave Rivello, Bob Brookmeyer, Peter Erskine, Maria Schneider, Julia Dollison and Melvin Rhyne. He has also toured with Broadway shows like Hairspray and The Producers. Pivec not only plays jazz, he also is a skilled classical musician. He often plays with classical groups like the Rochester Philharmonic Pops Orchestra.

#9595

John Roberts

#172214

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Roberts is an English musician residing in Schenectady, New York. He is best known for his musical collaborations with Tony Barrand. As Roberts and Barrand, they performed a cappella and accompanied performances of traditional English folk music. They also performed and recorded fare such as sea shanties of the North Atlantic, and an album of traditional drinking songs. The duo was also half of the related act Nowell Sing We Clear—which in addition to a number of albums—performs an annual yuletide concert series.

#9596

Chike Aniakor

#56083

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Chike Aniakor is a Nigerian painter. A native of Abatete, Aniakor received his first artistic training at Ahmadu Bello University, receiving his master's degree in 1974. He received a doctorate in art history from Indiana University Bloomington in 1978, writing his dissertation on Igbo architecture. He has taught art and art history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, since 1970, becoming a member of the Nsukka group. He is currently a professor at the University of Cross River state, teaching arts and contemporary African art. More recently, he has been a fellow of the Metropolitan Museum...

#9597

Zvi Keren

#168613

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Zvi Keren was a New York-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer. Upon his death was the last living pupil who was personally authorized by Joseph Schillinger. Considered to be among the pioneers of jazz playing in Israel, and the pioneer in an academic approach to jazz education in Israel, where he settled in 1951. Played an important role in the Israeli music scene as a composer, arranger and educator for generations of Israeli musicians.

#9598

Anthony Newman

#174939

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Anthony Newman is an American classical musician. While mostly known as an organist, Newman is also a harpsichordist , pianist, composer, conductor, writer, and teacher. He is a specialist in music of the Baroque period, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and has collaborated with such noted musicians as Kathleen Battle, Julius Baker, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein, Michala Petri, and Wynton Marsalis, for whom he arranged and conducted In Gabriel’s Garden, the most popular classical record of 1996.

#9599

Robert Paterson

#139953

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Robert Paterson is an American composer of contemporary classical music, as well as a conductor and percussionist. His catalog includes over 100 compositions. He has been called a "modern day master" and is primarily known for his colorful orchestral works, large body of chamber music and clear vocal writing in his operas, choral works, vocal chamber works and song cycles.

#9600

Liana Alexandra

Liana Alexandra

#179199

Overall Influence

1947 - 2011 (64 years)

Liana Alexandra Septefrati was a Romanian composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania, on 27 May 1947. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory under Tudor Ciortea and Tiberiu Olah and took composition courses in 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1984 in Darmstadt, Germany. She had a doctorate in musicology and taught composition, orchestration, and music analysis at the Conservatory from 1971 until her death in 2011. A prolific composer in the neoromantic style, Alexandra had over 100 of her works performed and published in Romania.

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