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Valter Dešpalj
1947 - 2023 (76 years)
Valter Dešpalj was a Croatian cellist and a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. Early years Dešpalj was born on 5 November 1947 in Zadar, Croatia to Albanian parents and graduated from the Juilliard School . He also took master classes with P. Casals, P. Fournier and A. Navarra, and did two years of postgraduate study with G. Kozolupova at the Moscow Conservatory.
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Cynthia Johnston Turner
Cynthia Johnston Turner is a conductor and clinician in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Canada. She was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in July 2021. Previously, she served as Director of Bands on the faculty of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia where she oversaw the entire UGA Band program, including the 440-member Redcoat Marching Band, Masters and Doctoral student in conducting, was chair of the conducting area, and artistic director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. She formerly served on the faculty of Cornell University, where she directed the Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony and chamber winds.
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Tina Gharavi
1972 - Present (54 years)
Tina Gharavi is an Iranian-born British BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter. Early life and education Born in Tehran, her family moved to the United Kingdom, then New Zealand, and finally New Jersey, United States. Gharavi attended high school in suburban New Jersey, spending part of her life in Red Bank, close to the Jersey Shore. Gharavi initially trained as a painter at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She later attended Le Fresnoy studio National des arts contemporains, near Lille, France. She currently splits her time between Newcastle,...
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Winfield Scott
1920 - 2015 (95 years)
Winfield Scott , also known as Robie Kirk, was an American songwriter and singer. He wrote or co-wrote the hit songs "Tweedle Dee" for LaVern Baker, and he was a co-writer with Otis Blackwell of "Return to Sender" for Elvis Presley. "Return to Sender", written for the Presley film Girls! Girls! Girls!, was a U.K. No.1 single and peaked at No.2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
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Anuradha Sriram
1970 - Present (56 years)
Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 3500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films.
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John Cowan
1952 - Present (74 years)
John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival. Cowan became the band's bassist in 1972 after the departure of original bassist Ebo Walker and was noted as being the only member of New Grass Revival not to come from a bluegrass background.
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Oleksandr Bilash
1931 - 2003 (72 years)
Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize , People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR , People's Artist of the USSR , Hero of Ukraine .
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Joseph Willard Roosevelt
1918 - 2008 (90 years)
Joseph Willard Roosevelt was an American pianist and composer. Biography He was the second son of Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Wyatt Willard. His paternal grandparents were U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt Jr. and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow.
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Robert H.P. Platz
1951 - Present (75 years)
Robert Hugo Philip Platz is a German classical composer. Born in Baden-Baden, Platz studied music theory and composition , musicology and piano in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, between 1970 and 1973. He studied later with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 1977 he took examinations in conducting in Freiburg, and did a series of computer courses at IRCAM in 1980. Since 1990 he has been teaching composition at the Conservatorium Maastricht, Netherlands. Platz gives workshops and masterclasses in Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and the United St...
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Philip Cannon
1929 - 2016 (87 years)
Jack Philip Cannon was a British composer and teacher. His choral music and songs have enjoyed extensive performances worldwide. Brief biography Philip Cannon was born in Paris on 21 December 1929, to Franco-British parents. The family moved to Falmouth in Cornwall in 1936, where Philip was educated at the local Grammar School. Cannon subsequently studied with Imogen Holst at Dartington and with Gordon Jacob and Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he was awarded the Octavia Travelling Scholarship.
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Jeff Austin
1974 - 2019 (45 years)
Jeff Austin was an American mandolinist and singer best known for being a founding member of the Yonder Mountain String Band. Biography Although Austin was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States, he grew up in Elk Grove Village, Illinois and attended Rolling Meadows High School. Austin attended the University of Cincinnati, but soon made his way to Urbana, Illinois, where he met future banjoist Dave Johnston. Receiving a request from Johnston to perform in his band The Bluegrassholes, Austin picked up the mandolin for the first time. After some time, Austin moved to Nederland, Colorado; Johnston, after seeking improvement in his playing ability, also moved to Nederland.
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Stanley Hollingsworth
1924 - 2003 (79 years)
Stanley Walker Hollingsworth was an American composer and teacher. He was a student of composer Darius Milhaud from 1944–46, and of Gian Carlo Menotti from 1948–50. As a composer he is probably best known for his operatic trilogy of children's stories: "The Mother", "The Selfish Giant", and "Harrison Loved his Umbrella".
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Bob Backlund
1949 - Present (77 years)
Robert Louis Backlund is an American retired amateur and professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation from 1976 to 1984 and in the 1990s, where he held the WWWF Championship/WWF Championship on two occasions. His first reign was the second longest in history as recognized by WWE . Backlund was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Cat Hope
1966 - Present (60 years)
Catherine Anne "Cat" Hope , is an Australian composer, musician and academic. She started her music and academic careers in Perth and relocated to Melbourne in 2017. Her opera, Speechless, was first performed in 2019 at the Perth Festival. At the Art Music Awards of 2020 she won Work of the Year: Dramatic for Speechless. Steve Dow of The Age described the opera, "fuelled by outrage over the imprisonment of asylum seeker children, which features growling and screaming to an unconventional score without musical notation." Hope has also won the Art Music Award for Excellence in Experimental Music...
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Donald H. White
1921 - 2016 (95 years)
Donald H. White was a 20th-century American composer. White was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, in 1921. He studied music education at Temple University in Philadelphia and composition with Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music . In 1947, he joined the faculty of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he was chairman of composition and theory studies . He was the director of the school of music at Depauw from 1974 to 1978. He became the chairman of the music department at Central Washington Uni...
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Giancarlo Iliprandi
1925 - 2016 (91 years)
Giancarlo Iliprandi was an Italian graphic designer. Early years Born in Milan, in 1949 Iliprandi graduated in painting and in 1953 in scenography from the Brera Academy. He was a self-taught graphic designer, inspired by Antonio Boggeri, Max Huber, Albe Steiner and Bruno Munari. In the early 1950s he was able to get commissions from important companies including RAI, Honeywell, Roche, La Rinascente, FIAT, Standa and Electa.
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Michael Gudinski
1952 - 2021 (69 years)
Michael Solomon Gudinski AM was an Australian record executive and promoter who was a leading figure in the Australian music industry. Born and raised in Melbourne to Jewish Russian immigrants, Gudinski formed the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through which he signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue, and New Zealand's Split Enz to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others.
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Paul Angerer
1927 - 2017 (90 years)
Paul Angerer was an Austrian violist, conductor, composer and radio presenter. Life Angerer studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Reidinger and Alfred Uhl, and conducting with Hans Swarowsky. He performed in the viola section of Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande early in his career, and was viola soloist with the Wiener Symphoniker from 1953 to 1957. Angerer then began to conduct the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the orchestras in Bonn and Ulm. From 1967 to 1972, he was principal conductor of the Salzburg Opera Theater and led the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester from 1971 to 1982.
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James Willey
1939 - Present (87 years)
James Willey , is a composer. He began composing at an early age and attended the Eastman School of Music, earning a bachelor's degree in 1961, a master's in 1963, and his Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition in 1972. He studied composition with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson.
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Susi Wurmbrand
1966 - Present (60 years)
Susi Wurmbrand is an Austrian linguist specializing in syntax. Education and career Wurmbrand received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 with a thesis titled Infinitives supervised by Noam Chomsky, Alec Marantz and David Pesetsky. In 2018 she received her Habilitation from the University of Vienna.
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Bobby Militello
1950 - Present (76 years)
Robert Philip Militello a.k.a. Bobby M. is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist who was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Career Militello was one of a number of talented musical artists who were groomed by the legendary Sam Scamacca at Buffalo's iconic Lafayette High School in the 1960's. During the 1970s, Militello went on tour with Maynard Ferguson. He returned to Buffalo in the early 1980s and worked as a freelance musician. He moved to Los Angeles and spent the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s as a member of orchestras led by Bill Holman and Bob Florence. He toured and recorded with Dave Brubeck from 1982 to 2012.
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Robert Walker
1937 - 2017 (80 years)
Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr. was an American blues musician, who is known in the blues music world due to his "rock 'n' roll showmanship" and "flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations." Biography Walker was born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Walker Sr. was often referred to by his nickname, "Bilbo", which was passed on to Walker Jr., who was sometimes called "Little Junior Bilbo". Walker began to explore music after being introduced to Ike Turner.
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Luise Walker
1910 - 1998 (88 years)
Luise Walker was an Austrian classical guitarist and guitar composer – one of the most prominent female guitarists of her time. Life and career Walker was born in Vienna and began studying guitar at the age of eight. Initially a student of Josef Zuth, she subsequently studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, with Jakob Ortner. She also took lessons with Heinrich Albert, Miguel Llobet, both of whom were frequent guests at her parents home, also with Andrés Segovia and Emilio Pujol.
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Guy Ritchie
1968 - Present (58 years)
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. Ritchie left school at age 15 and worked entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. In 1995, he directed a short film, The Hard Case, followed by the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , his feature-length directorial debut. He gained recognition with his second film, Snatch , which found critical and commercial success. Following Snatch, Ritchie directed Swept A...
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Diane Thome
1942 - Present (84 years)
Diane Thome is an American composer. She studied piano with Dorothy Taubman and Orazio Frugoni and composition with Robert Strassburg, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, A.U. Boscovich, and Milton Babbitt.
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Peter Gülke
1934 - Present (92 years)
Peter Ludwig Gülke is a German conductor and musicologist. Biography Born in Weimar, Gülke studied cello and musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He completed his doctorate in philosophy in Leipzig in 1958, followed in 1985 by his professorial thesis at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1976 he became conductor at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and in 1981 he was appointed Principal Conductor in Weimar. From 1986 to 1996 he was Principal Conductor in the City of Wuppertal. From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and from 1999 to 2002 professor of musicology at the University of Basel.
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Marc Battier
1947 - Present (79 years)
Marc Battier is a French composer and musicologist. Battier was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France. He is known as a co-founder with Leigh Landy and Daniel Teruggi of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, which established a new field in musicology specifically for the musicological study of electroacoustic music. He is also known for developing the study of electroacoustic music in East Asia. His electroacoustic are widely performed and have been commissioned in several countries.
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Sarah Projansky
2000 - Present (26 years)
Sarah Projansky is Associate Vice President for Faculty at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. From 2008–2020 she was Professor of Film & Media Arts and of Gender Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Communication. She's also an author of a number of books including Spectacular Girls and Watching Rape.
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Stefan Parkman
1952 - Present (74 years)
Stefan Parkman is a Swedish conductor. He is a professor at Uppsala University, where he holds the Eric Ericson chair of choral conducting. From 2002 to 2005, Parkman was the head conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir, and he has also been the conductor of the Danish Radio Choir and the Boys' Choir of Uppsala Cathedral. Since 1983, he has been the leader of Uppsala Akademiska Kammarkör.
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Steven Schick
1954 - Present (72 years)
Steven Schick is a percussionist and conductor from the United States, specializing in contemporary classical music. He teaches at the University of California, San Diego and is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past 40 years, he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, by commissioning and premiering more than 150 new works for percussion.
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James DiGiovanna
1965 - Present (61 years)
James DiGiovanna is a film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories. Together with Bob Grimm and Colin Boyd, he was one of three cinema writers on the staff of Tucson Weekly. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Garrett Byrnes
1971 - Present (55 years)
Garrett Byrnes is an American composer. Byrnes was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany while his father was stationed at the U.S. Army Base there, and relocated to New Jersey in the United States. He studied music composition, receiving his bachelor's degree from the Boston Conservatory, his master's degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and his doctorate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
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Claude Frank
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Claude Frank was a German-born American pianist. Biography Of Jewish ancestry, Frank was born in Nuremberg, Germany. His father emigrated to Brussels after the advent of the Third Reich, and the family eventually settled in Paris when Frank was 12. Frank subsequently began studies at the Paris Conservatoire, but in 1940, he and his mother escaped France by way of the Pyrenees and Lisbon, and settled in the USA. Frank studied with Artur Schnabel in New York, for whom he first played in Europe. He also was a pupil of Maria Curcio. He studied composition and conducting at Columbia University, where his teachers included Paul Dessau.
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Alex Gordon
1922 - 2003 (81 years)
Alex Gordon was a British film producer and screenwriter. He produced eighteen films, including the American International Pictures films Day the World Ended and The She Creature . He wrote screenplays for three films, two of them with B-movie director Ed Wood, Jail Bait and Bride of the Monster .
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George Martin
1937 - 2021 (84 years)
George Martin was a Spanish film actor, sometimes credited as Jorge Martín. He is known as a frequent star in the Italian 3 Supermen series and for numerous parts in Spaghetti Westerns and Italian exploitation films.
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Sylvan Levin
1903 - 1996 (93 years)
Sylvan Levin was an American concert pianist and conductor. He served as the assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Symphony under Leopold Stokowski for many years. He also founded the Philadelphia Opera Company in 1938, serving as its director for six years.
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Walter Bishop Jr.
1927 - 1998 (71 years)
Walter Bishop Jr. was an American jazz pianist. Early life Bishop was born in New York City on October 4, 1927. He had at least two sisters, Marian and Beverly. His father was composer Walter Bishop Sr. In his teens, Bishop Jr.'s friends included future jazz musicians Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He was brought up in Harlem. He left high school to play in dance bands in the area. In 1945–47 he was in the Army Air Corps. During his military service in 1947 Bishop was based near St Louis and met touring bebop musicians.
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Robert Glasgow
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Robert Ellison Glasgow was an American organist and music pedagogue. He taught at the University of Michigan for over 40 years and was an internationally respected performer. Glasgow studied at the Eastman School of Music with Harold Gleason and Catharine Crozier, receiving both his bachelor's and his master's degrees there. He taught at MacMurray College for eleven years, then became Professor of Music at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1962, serving on the faculty until his retirement in 2005. MacMurray College named him an honorary doctor of music, and the University of Michigan S...
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Carlos Calderón Fajardo
1946 - 2015 (69 years)
Carlos Calderón Fajardo was a Peruvian journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He worked as a sociologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 1974 he won first place in the José María Arguedas Story Contest. In 1981 he won the Unanue Novel Competition with his novel La colina de los árboles. In 1984 he won the Gaviota Roja Novel Prize for Así es la pena en el paraíso. In 1985 he won the Hispamérica Best Short Story Prize, organized by the University of Maryland, with Roa Bastos, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar as judges. In the year 2006 he was a finalist for the Tus...
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María Ester Grebe
1928 - 2012 (84 years)
María Ester Grebe Vicuña was a Chilean anthropologist and ethnomusicologist focusing on the Indigenous peoples of Chile. Biography María Ester Grebe was born in 1928 in Arica, Chile. She studied musicology at the University of Chile, graduating with a bachelor's in 1965. After further studies at the University of California and Indiana University in the late 1960s, then the University of Chile in the 1970s, she received a doctorate in musicology from Queen's University Belfast, in 1980.
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Oxana Yablonskaya
1938 - Present (88 years)
Oxana Yablonskaya is a Russian pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important competitions in the West, was denied permission by the Soviet government to accept any performance engagements outside of the Soviet bloc. Frustrated by her career limitations, she emigrated to the United States in 1977. Described by The New York Times as an "internationally known virtuoso" and "one of the country's most distinguished musical residents", Yablonskaya has toured in concert and recital throughout the world and has made numerous recordings.
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Charlie Murphy
1984 - Present (42 years)
Charlotte Murphy is an Irish actress best known for her role as Ann Gallagher in the BBC series Happy Valley . Early life Murphy was born in Enniscorthy, the daughter of hair salon owners Brenda and Pat Murphy. She has five siblings. The family moved to Wexford when she was 12 years old. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting from 2006 to 2008.
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Jimmy Greene
1975 - Present (51 years)
James Sidney Greene, Jr. is an American jazz saxophonist, gospel musician, recording artist, record producer, and music professor. He started his music career in 1997, and has since released eight studio albums. His eighth studio album, Beautiful Life, was his breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts. It also received his first Grammy Award nominations.
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Dietmar Hiller
1958 - Present (68 years)
Dietmar Hiller is a German musicologist, organist, dramaturg at the Konzerthaus Berlin and docent at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin. Life and career Hiller was born in Berlin. After his Abitur at the , a school with a musical orientation, Hiller studied musicology at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1976 and graduated in 1981. In 1984, he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy. Organ studies with church music director Erich Piasetzki from 1977 to 1984 complemented his artistic training. In 1987, he took part in the improvisation competition for young organists in Halle .
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Brenton Broadstock
1952 - Present (74 years)
Brenton Thomas Broadstock is an Australian composer. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 2014 for "significant service to music as a composer, educator and mentor".
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Sticky Fingaz
1973 - Present (53 years)
Kirk Jones , better known by his stage name Sticky Fingaz, is an American hardcore rapper, record producer, script writer, director, publisher, and actor best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group Onyx.
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Max Pommer
1936 - Present (90 years)
Max Pommer is a German musicologist and conductor, a director of the Leipziger Universitätschor and the founder and conductor of the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Career Born in Leipzig, Pommer was a student of the Thomasschule in his home town, where he founded a chamber orchestra. He studied conducting and piano at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, and from 1960 to 1964 also musicology at the Leipzig University. He was the conductor of the Leipziger Universitätschor from 1973 to 1987. He founded in 1979 the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, formed by players of the Gewandhausorchester, which gained him international recognition and awards.
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Sergio Barroso
1946 - Present (80 years)
Sergio Fernández Barroso is a Cuban composer, performer and professor. Academic Background Sergio Barroso studied piano, theory and organ with Alfredo Levi, César Pérez Sentenat, Edgardo Martín, and Alfredo Diez Nieto at the Havana National “Amadeo Roldán” Conservatory, where he received an Honours Diploma in 1966.
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